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Archive for July 22nd, 2007

Going Back to Boot Camp

“Nearly 10 years ago, I went to Marine Corps Boot Camp at MCRD San Diego. Those were good times…
A few weeks ago, I went back to Boot Camp, this time loading up Windows Vista on my new MacBook Pro. The process by-and-large is quite simple, and is documented in many places on [...]

How many Microsoft Employees does it take to…

“I finally signed up for Facebook to see what all they hype was… It’s kind of cool, but what surprised me was the HUGE number of Microsoft employees on Facebook. If I recall correctly (and this is off the top of my head), there are approximately 70,000 MS employees worldwide.How many of them [...]

Windows Server 2008 Scenarios Part IV

“Finally it’s time for the next scenario in the Windows Server 2008 series, Security and Policy Enforcement. Since Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 were designed to be together we get some of the security enhancements we saw in Vista, like BitLocker Drive Encryption and Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. One thing worth noticing with [...]

Multiple Partitions in BDD 2007

“Have had a couple of requests to cover creating multiple partitions using BDD 2007. By default BDD 2007 creates a single partition (C:) that then builds out with your required OS and applications via the task sequencer. The partition and format information is not done by the unattend.xml file (WinPE section) as you might expect, [...]

Exchange 2007 Server Business Value tool

“I am currently at TechReady in Seattle. It is a opportunity to get to know some new people and learn about some new technology.I had a pre training day in UC today and found out about this tool. It has been available for sometime but I had never come across it.
It is for partners to [...]

An idea whose time has come

“So says Jupiter research director Michael Gartenberg of Home Server in Joe Wilcox’s Microsoft Watch column, one of many, many articles about RTM this week.  Wilcox, a former analyst himself, gives props to the Home Server team (and others) at MS for a rapid, focused development cycle.  I always like to see us picked up by [...]

Go Big Or Go Home

Or in the case of Daryl Plummer, go big AT home. Daryl’s the Gartner research chief I mentioned in a previous post.  I think its fair to say he has a seriously (the ultimate?) digital home.  Here’s the more detailed overview of his not-so-humble abode:14 broadcast display devices, 13 zones of security, 17 zones of automation, 384 active [...]

Check out the Windows Live OneCare 2.0 Beta

The Windows Live OneCare team today released the Beta version of OneCare 2.0 — you can download it here. Windows Live OneCare 2.0 is designed to make it easier to secure and maintain multiple PCs on a network so that households and small businesses alike can manage their PCs from a single control panel. [...]

Google will in den USA ein Mobilfunknetz aufbauen

Wie der Suchmaschinenbetreiber Google heute in einer Pressemitteilung angekündigt hat, will man in den USA ein eigenes Mobilfunknetz aufbauen. Dazu muss allerdings erst ein Frequenzband ersteigert werden, für das immerhin bis zu 4,6 Milliarden Dollar zur Verfügung stehen.Sofern die Regulierungsbehörde keine Bedenken hat, könnte Google an der nächsten Auktion teilnehmen. Derzeit steht noch kein Termin [...]

Polizist aus Tokyo verliert Job wegen Filesharing

Wie japanische Medien berichten, hat ein 26-jähriger Polizist der Tokioter Stadtpolizei seinen Job verloren, nachdem von einem Rechnerder Dienststelle sensible Ermittlungsdaten in das Internet gelangt waren. Zunächst stritt er die Nutzung der P2P-Software ab.
Das nicht genannte Filesharing-Programm hatte Zugriff auf die gesamte Festplate, so dass auch zahlreiche Polizeiinformationen von anderen Nutzern heruntergeladen werden konnten. Insgesamt [...]