stuart test blog

Microsoft are following VMware’s lead by providing pre-built virtual machines for download. Have a look at this search on the Microsoft downloads site and you’ll find a few there already: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?pocId=&freetext=VHD&DisplayLang=en These are only official trial versions from Microsoft, so VMware still has the lead here with a whole community of user-created virtual machines most […]

Just noticed today that the Sysinternals site has completed its migration to Microsoft’s TechNet site. The new address is http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx I’ve had a quick dig around and noticed this tool which looks new, Process Monitor. Here’s a screenshot from the site: Everything else seems to be the same apart from the lack of source code […]

Another juicy bit of documentation for the AD geeks out there. This is an updated version of Microsoft’s best-practice documentation for recovering your Active Directory forest. Brief Description This paper is a best-practice recommendation for recovering an Active Directory® directory service forest, if forest-wide failure has rendered all domain controllers in the forest incapable of […]

This is more of a bookmark for me rather than a blog post, but there may be others out there interested in this MSDN blog focusing on (much-needed) ADFS documentation. Link to ADFS Documentation Blog

Less than a day old and there is already a critical security alert for Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 7. This vulnerability only affects IE7, so I guess it’s not recommended to upgrade just yet. This is a big blow for Microsoft as they have been touting this as their most secure browser ever. Let’s hope […]

A new version of Windows Live Writer has just been released. This is by far the best Live product that has been released yet, and the only one that actually shows some originality. (The rest of the Live product range are all clones of competing software, or, renamed MSN services.) This is a really useful […]

Is it just me, or is this post intentionally naive? Jeff Jones claims that Windows Server 2003 has less critical updates than an Ubuntu 6.06 machine. But if you dig a bit deeper, it appears that most of the updates that have been provided by Ubuntu are for 3rd party software products. Microsoft doesn’t provide […]

I’ve been using Live Writer for the last couple of weeks and I have to say that it is by far the best desktop blogging tool available today. I had tried most of the others, but none come even close to this. I’m usually quite critical of the Windows MSN Live platform as I think […]

I recently subscribed to the TechNet and MSDN blogs feeds. These two feeds keep you up to date with every blog that’s hosted by both sites. There’s a bit of information overload in doing this, but I’ve already found some good posts which means that I have another couple of feeds to subscribe to. Jane […]

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 […]