Lacking any photos of MOM 2005, I have instead included this old photo of “MOM 1963”.(Yes, that’s really my lovely mother holding sleepy little me.)“Cute, Kevin. But what was the question?”Oh yeah.. I received this question in email from Jim: Hey Kevin, I was watching your webcast on the MOM/ADMP and wanted to ask you … Continue reading MOM 2005, Active Directory Management Pack Question
..there I am, up on the stage.. “Yeah! I’m currently in Omaha, about to do my first live TechNet Events of the new year, and I am excited about the content we’re bringing you this time around. We start the day off with an “Up Close and Personal” look at Windows Server 2003 R2 and all … Continue reading Here I am.. on the road again…
Greetings!Below I’ve pasted an edited and cleaned up copy of most of the Q&A from today’s webcast on Implementing Exchange Server 2003 Security (Part 2 of 2). BIG thank you to Chris Avis for handling the Q&A on the backend, and who’s work this really represents.-Kevin—Questions and Answers:“Can I win one of those MP3 players today?”You are entered … Continue reading Best of Q&A from Webcast: Implementing Exchange Server 2003 Security (Part 2 of 2)
Here are some resources relating to the webcast topic presented. I hope you find them useful.Kevin — Management Webcast Series http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.mspx MOM Sizer Tool http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=93930640-FA0F-48B3-8EB0-86836A1808DF&displaylang=en MOM Case Study – Homeloan Management Limited http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/CaseStudy.asp?CaseStudyID=17085 Getting Started with MOM (“MOM for Beginners”) http://www.microsoft.com/Mom/techinfo/training/getstarted.mspx DEMO: Monitoring with MOM Consoles http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/seminar/en/20040617tnt1-112d3/manifest.xml Management Packs for … Continue reading Resources for Webcast – MOM 2005 for Active Directory Management
Greetings!Below I’ve pasted an edited and cleaned up copy of most of the Q&A from today’s webcast on Implementing Exchange Server 2003 Security (Part 1 of 2). BIG thank you to Harold Wong and Blain Barton for handling the Q&A on the backend, and who’s work this really represents.-Kevin—Questions and Answers:“Is it recommended to implement sp2 … Continue reading Best of Q&A from Webcast: Implementing Exchange Server 2003 Security (Part 1 of 2)
I saw this on Barnaby’s blog and didn’t realize we were doing this now. For the IT Pro who needs to update many machines with security updates, but isn’t using WSUS or simply enforcing/allowing automatic updates, we’re now making the monthly security updates available as a download-able .ISO file. I think that’s pretty cool.For example, the … Continue reading Security Updates as .ISO Disk Images
A coworker of mine, Anand Iyer (www.Artificialignorance.net), pointed us to a really good article / opinion-piece by Joel Spolsky. Joel rants on the “Perils of JavaSchools”.Now, you have to indulge me a bit here. Yes, I’m an IT Pro. But my upbringing into my career was with a CompSci degree at the University of Minnesota, where … Continue reading Joel is right!
Mike Nash has written a really good description up on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.The MSRC Blog is yet another resource you can use to stay informed. Use an RSS Reader and subscribe to it.For those of you who don’t know, Mike Nash is the Corporate Vice President responsible for security at Microsoft.
And if you don’t know about it, and you consider yourself an “IT Pro”, then shame on you for not being connected and informed in areas of Security that are CRITICAL to your job, bozo.“What’s up?”Recently a vulnerability was found in the way Windows works with .WMF formatted files – particularly in a function that … Continue reading You should already know about this…
Greetings!Below I’ve pasted an edited and cleaned up copy of most of the Q&A from today’s webcast on SQL Server 2005 Management Administration. Big BIG thank you to Bryan von Axelson for handling the Q&A on the backend, and who’s work this really represents.-Kevin—“As a technet subscriber I have been watching the development of SQL2k5 … Continue reading Best of Q&A from Webcast: SQL Server2005 Management and Administration
Absolutely Full of I.T. 