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November 2007 - Posts

To DEC or not? That is the question!

As you may have heart or seen right now, the Directory Experts Conference is scheduled for March 2008 (2 nd – 5 th ) in Chicago (pronounced like "Chic-a-go", remembered this from a "Married with Children" episode). Like this year and last year, I'm delivering Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:45 AM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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Are you using at least 1 W2K3 SP1 DC in your AD domains?

During one of the AD Q&A sessions at TechED IT Forum I was kind of surprised that people did not know about a simple "save you're a$$ method" when recovery of objects was needed and especially those objects that contain back-links. The recovery of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:39 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

TechEd IT Forum 2007 - Day 5

A little bit late then expected but here goes… Both of the sessions in the first slot were not that spectacular so I left earlier. Although I had plans to attend some other session I decided attend the security panel discussion. Very interesting to hear Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:01 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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TechEd IT Forum 2007 - Day 4

A little bit late then expected but here goes… The day started with a lot of coffee and a session about Certificate Services in the upcoming Windows Server 2008. Of course mentioning what is new and improved. For the second session I wanted to attend Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:22 PM by Jorge | 2 Comments
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TechEd IT Forum 2007 - Day 3

A little bit late then expected but here goes… Today's sessions for me were all about security and identity and access management. Some were interesting and some weren't. Before lunch I attended presentations about ILM "2" and security/countermeasures Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:53 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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TechEd IT Forum 2007 - Day 2

On Tuesday, after just sleeping for 5 hours I wanted to start my day with a session about AD RMS and ADFS. Unfortunately it was cancelled. I was really looking forward to that. As a replacement I went to a SCOM session, but I did not like it. It was specified Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:24 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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TechEd IT Forum 2007 - Day 1

I arrived on Sunday during the afternoon, got to the hotel to dump my luggage and went to the conference center for registration. From time to time complete crowds arrived and left again. On Monday people were able to register also. My focus for TechEd Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:59 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Windows Server Virtualization

From TechED IT Forum in Barcelona… During the keynote a lot of announcements were made. One of them being… Windows Sever Virtualization got its final name. It will be a Windows Server Feature called "Hyper-V". The following are some of its features: Up Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 3:12 PM by Jorge | 2 Comments
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Operamusic or something that sounds like it…

Last Friday I was enjoying an evening of doing nothing special. While cleaning up my laptop, as in removing all the crap I don't needed anymore, I was also watching TV. My wife, was zapping around and suddenly stopped to watch an interview between a well-known Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:08 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Creating your own deprovisioning tool or script

What to do with user accounts that are or not mailbox enabled when the corresponding user(s) leave(s) the company. For that, and without buying a full blown solution you can create tooling in a simple way if the following process is sufficient for you. Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 3:18 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments