Aug 10 2007

Books I’m reading

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While the NZ dollar has been so strong over the last few weeks, it was a great opportunity to do some shopping online on Amazon. Here are the books I’ve bought recently: Geek books: Active Directory, 3rd Edition by by Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair Lowe-NorrisThis is the Active Directory bible as far as I’m […]

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Jul 18 2007

Deploy Adobe Reader and Acrobat via Group Policy

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Most large organisations employ dedicated packagers to create automated software installations that can be deployed enterprise-wide using distribution tools such as Microsoft’s SMS 2003 or Group Policies. Smaller companies, however, can’t afford to package applications and often revert to manually installing the software on computers as required. Adobe provides a useful utility to help administrators customise […]

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Jul 12 2007

Active Directory Explorer v1.0

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Microsoft have just released a new tool under the Sysinternals banner called Active Directory Explorer. Read the blurb from the website below for more information but based on this description, it sounds amazing! It’s odd then, that there is no other information about this new tool apart from the quote below. This seems like a […]

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May 25 2007

Introducing Windows Server 2008

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On the topic of books… The Windows Server Division Weblog has details on the newly released about to be released book called Introducing Windows Server 2008 Here’s the list of chapters: Introduction Usage Scenarios Windows Server Virtualization Managing Windows Server 2008 Managing Server Roles Windows Server Core Active Directory Enhancements Terminal Services Enhancements Clustering Enhancements […]

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May 16 2007

Reduced attack surface area

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Jeff Jones (Strategy Director in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit) has written a post about Server Core and how its reduced footprint increases security dramatically. The key here is “reduced attack surface area” as all of the most insecure areas of a server have been removed, such as IIS, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, etc… […]

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May 12 2007

Longhorn testing round 2

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Well this is interesting – my first, first-hand experience with Server Core. There’s only one command prompt window rather than the two that was present in previous betas. There is still a GUI, and you can run several apps such as Notepad, Task Manager, Regedit, which are probably the three most useful GUI apps I […]

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Aug 23 2006

TechEd 2006 all over

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Day three of TechEd has just finished with brings the event to an end. We were all a little bit weary after the brilliant TechFest last night but we still managed to get in a couple of good sessions. The Active Directory session from Brian Puhl was quite interesting as he went through the details of […]

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Jan 12 2006

New Activedir article

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I’ve just published my first article to my new ActiveDir site on BlogTown NZ which is a “how to” article: “Remotely reboot a server into DSRM” Hope you like it – feel free to comment on the article.

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Jan 10 2006

New Active Directory blog

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I’ve just set up a new blog where I’ll post all my Active Directory related stuff. Here’s the link: activedir.blogtown.co.nz

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