Author Archives: Vlad

Microsoft Security: Sometimes We Stutter

Security
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Ouch, looks like a fresh batch of security advisories are being re-released to update you against some public and privately reported vulnerabilities in the patches released earlier this week. That little yellow shield on the bottom left corner? Yeah, the … Continue reading

SharePoint Portal Server 2007: The real story

Microsoft
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Mary Jo Foley has an article over at eweek covering the apparent move by Microsoft to bundle ($5 if you get a Microsoft guy to say "bundle") a lot of server products they intended to roll out on their own … Continue reading

2nd Shot is Back

Deals
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Just like Jesus, the free MCP exam retake is back from the dead and many are happy to see it. Basically, you sign up for an exam and if you flunk it you get to take it over again except … Continue reading

Microsoft Patchday: Porn or Valentines?

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Yes ladies and gentlemen it is the 14th of February, the day fond in the hearts of System Administrators everywhere as the Microsoft Patchday. The advisories are up so get to testing and patching. Now in addition to it being … Continue reading

Inside SBS Podcasts Are Back: Mobility

Mobility, Podcast
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Las Colinas PSS guys are back. Last week when you were spending an extra hour with your favorite Indian they got a chance to record an awesome podcast on mobility with WM5, SBS, IIS, ActiveSync and everything involved. The sound … Continue reading

Big Vladville Changes

Vladville
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Big changes are afoot at Vladville. As most of you know, I maintain this blog to keep my list of partners, VARs, and resellers up to date on everything in IT so they can grow their businesses. The more informed … Continue reading

Longhorn and Vista in Virtual PC

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If you're having trouble installing Windows Vista or Longhorn in the Virtual PC environment here are a few tips I found over on the Virtual PC Guy's Weblog: Create a new virtual machine with a 16GB (or larger) virtual hard … Continue reading

SBS Show #16 – SMBTN Partner Groups

SBS Show
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Joining us for SBS Show #16 are few leaders of SMBTN groups: Jim Locke, Roger Otterson and Andy Goodman. They discuss the concept of partner groups and going beyond the networking/technology discussions and towards actually doing business. Every partner in … Continue reading

I bet Ballmer would throw the chair at this video too!

IT Culture
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Ok, this just made my month folks. The screencap to the right is Microsoft's CEO Steven Ballmer on a TV commercial selling Microsoft Windows 1.0; Now thats what I call funny. It is nice to know that he has passed … Continue reading

ISA 2006 Public Beta Open

Security
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It feels like ISA 2004 just launched! Well, time to drop that stable firewall and caching proxy you're enjoying and check out ISA 2006. The public beta for this product was announced today and both Standard and Enterprise edition are … Continue reading