I am working on an implementation of Unified Access Gateay (UAG) SP1 for our DirectAccess implementation here at the board. The TechNet articles in the deployment guide specify that you must use NLB in Unicast Mode for the deployment. The guide is located at http://bit.ly/tirUga If you are using VMWare to host your UAG Array, you know that [...]
TechDays 2011 is coming up soon. Next week in fact. As in past years I’ll be presenting. This year I will be presenting in Toronto and Montreal and the subject will be Securing your Wireless Network using Active Directory and 802.1x This year TechDays will be taking place in the following cities so make sure to [...]
Microsoft has announced a program, build two Windows Phone 7.5 apps, get a free device. Full details at http://www.microsoft.com/canada/offers-promotions/mango-app-challenge/ My first thought was, “I wonder if I could write a couple apps.”, followed by “I wonder if fart apps count?” Check my Twitter stream, I did actually ask that question. The rules actually say those [...]
I have been in the pilot stages of a Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) implementation here at the school board. For my pilot, I am using a single server implementation. Now, in real life to implement MBAM you should be using a three server or five server implementation. I pinged @StephenLRose asking what the difference [...]
There is a great post over on the Building Windows 8 Blog on the new explorer features. A couple of features that really stand out for me, the new Ribbon and File Menu. First off, they talk about stats. One of those stats is the most commonly entered commands and how they are invoked. [...]
Microsoft has revealed new copy features in Building Windows 8 Video 3. It looks pretty slick. If you start multiple copy jobs, you can stop copy jobs to make other job move quicker. We all know starting multiple copies causes issues with speed. Now That’s something that was missing from Windows 7 that I could [...]
Looks like Windows Phone 7 Mango will be getting a mobile hotspot feature. The full details can be found at http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/08/windows-phone-mangos-wi-fi-hotspot-secret.ars I for one am looking forward to that. I can use it to quickly get online with my laptop when no WiFi is available. I have an android device (Samsung 551) that can do hotspot [...]
Just noticed today that Microsoft has release update rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP1. It contains the Exchange 2010 change called out in KB Article 2543879: PDF attachment from a Mac Mail client is not displayed when you use Outlook 2010 to open the email message in an Exchange Server 2007 SP3 environment. I have seen this [...]
At the Worldwide Partner conference in Los Angeles earlier this month, Microsoft showed off some new Hyper-V features in what is codenamed Windows Server 8. The Virtualization Team Blog posted a link to the video and some information on their blog. The mark you want to look at is around the 37 minute mark. There [...]
Are you running Windows XP? Are you feeling the pressure of creating a deployment plan? Have no fear! Leveraging learning’s from one of early adopters this session will give you the skills you need to proceed with your own deployment. The session will focus on free Windows 7 deployment planning and deployment tools that customize [...]
I was looking on the internet for some help setting up my certificate services that I need for a presentation I am doing in Ottawa later in the week. Certificate services is something I haven’t really touched in my career at all up until now. My presentation is on DirectAccess using Unified Access Gateway. You [...]
If you have been itching to try Microsoft’s new web based mail offering, itch no more. The beta is now open to the public. In a nutshell, its Exchange server, Sharepoint server, Lync server and Office web apps all rolled into one. Microsoft does the hosting for you so you don’t need to worry about [...]
I noticed over at www.Windows8Center.com that they picked up a leaked copy of Windows .Next. Definately some interesting stuff there. They were showing new push notifications, an improved disk cleanup, new cloud features in there but for me the coolest thing in Windows .Next is the Windows Portable Workspace. From what I can tell, it [...]
At the library I have to install iTunes as part of the audiobooks we have available to patrons. There are two things I have to do to ensure it works correctly with the audiobooks. The first one is to disable the auto update so that patrons are not annoyed. The second option is to change the import settings to [...]
Just a friendly reminder that the time changes tonight. We “spring ahead” one hour. I am looking forward to more evening hours daylight although the darker mornings won’t be as nice. Back when I worked in the hospital system in Northern Ontario, we used to run a VAX VMS 3000. It didn’t support the time [...]