Yearly Archives: 2006

Best of TechEd Monday

Exchange
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Untitled document I just had to share this one for my fellow Exchange guys. We just finished the MSG205  Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Next Generation of Exchange presentation by Terry Myerson of the Exchange team. During his presentation he said … Continue reading

Live from TechEd 2006

Events
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Untitled document WARNING: Post not approved, sponsored or otherwise consented to by Microsoft; solely my observations. Here I am at Microsoft TechEd 2006, the premier event for us in the business of running Microsoft-powered networks. Here is a glimpse for … Continue reading

Off To Boston

Uncategorized
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I’m off to Boston for TechEd. Look here daily for updates, podcasts, pictures and more. Comments and such will be turned off since I have no time to moderate them and if you didn’t get on Shockey Monkey by now … Continue reading

Vlad, Live! in Boston in June & July

Events
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Untitled document Sounds like TicketMaster SPAM, doesn’t it? “Ticketmaster – Don’t miss Whitesnake!” I’ll be on the road a LOT over the next month, so if you’re coming to the same events or if you live in Boston or Dallas, … Continue reading

SBS vs. Linux: The Response from Email Battles

Linux, SMB
on SBS vs. Linux: The Response from Email Battles

Untitled document Brief response to the Email Battles story titled “Why Linux Servers Trump Windows SBS”  which in turn was a response to my earlier story about “Linux vs. SBS: Switch”; Their outright ignorance of what SBS provides not only … Continue reading

Linux vs. SBS: Switch!

Linux, Microsoft
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Untitled document Excellent point brought up in the comments section today by Josh: For example, Microsoft wants to argue about stability vs. Linux. In nearly all Linux servers we manage that comparison is laughable. Now, compare RPC-over-HTTP functionality with Linux? … Continue reading

Live from Las Colinas!

Programming
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Several thousand Microsoft.com visitors come to Vladville every day. Perhaps one of you is doing Internet Explorer development and have to suffer through the debugging, I don’t know, but if any of you work in PSS and are… let’s say … Continue reading

Windows 2003 Server more reliable than Linux

Linux
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Really. Not just because Scoble says so, but also because Yankee Group did a research paper on it. Well, it’s written down and researched so it must be true. Sometimes I get under fire for calling BS on Microsoft too … Continue reading

When a man just wants to see a great rack

Gadgets
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G, I wonder what the most popular page on Vladville will be today…. As you know I live in state that was built on top of a drained swamp and we also just happen to get hit by a hurricane … Continue reading

Oh I really miss Europe

Misc
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Thats what you hear from every nostalgic European that went back for a week and had a sudden epiphany about how much the old country rules and how much America sucks (yet they came back anyhow). Well, you won’t get … Continue reading