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AUGUST 2008

[6/13/2008]
Tech Ed 2008--Microsoft IT Eats Its Own Dogfood
- Posted by: Sheila Molnar
Had a great conversation at Tech Ed with Barry Briggs, the Director of IT at Microsoft, about a classic Microsoft topic—eating your own dogfood. Basically, Briggs’s internal IT group runs prerelease versions of Microsoft products and files bug reports and provides other feedback. Microsoft has a history of putting prerelease software into production use at the company to work through tough problems at the enterprise level. Briggs says that the politically correct way to describe this internal testing is “the first and best” program. But everyone just calls it “eating your own dogfood” or... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

FEARLESS SECURITY
LIFE IN THE INFOSEC INDUSTRY: TALES FROM OUTSIDE THE FIREWALL
No-holds-barred discussion and commentary on security and other IT matters.

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Fearless Security

AUGUST 2008

[8/13/2008]
Defcon Buzzword Bingo
- Posted by: Tony Howlett Glenn Kramer
I’m finally filing this report from the Defcon show in Las Vegas last weekend. It took me several days just to recover and get back to earth. But all accounts it was a successful Defcon show with over 8000 in attendance. It was a little less raucous than previous shows though it still managed to generate sufficient controversy with accompanying news stories, including the MIT students who were barred by a Federal injunction from making their presentation on how to hack Boston’s mass transit payment system. Ironically, the information was disseminated world wide anyways after it was published as part of the lawsuit. It’s good to see... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE.

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Are they still playing "Spot the Fed" at DEFCON?...
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IT 911
EXPERTS AND RESOURCES ON CRITICAL ISSUES AS THEY HAPPEN
When Microsoft security fires flare up, when a crucial patch will affect your networks ability to function, when you need a single place to get all the information on a situation that could affect your network, make IT 911 your first and last stop. Windows IT Pro authors and editors will have all the information and provide expert insights and experiences to help you.

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IT 911

AUGUST 2008

[8/12/2008]
Serious VMware Bug
- Posted by: Gayle Rodcay Alan Sugano
There is a serious bug that causes the licenses to expire in Service Pack 2 of VMware ESX 3.5. This makes it impossible to restart any virtual server guest on the host. The workaround is to set the host date prior to 8/12/08, but if you're synching your virtual server guests with the host, this can cause serious problems with Active Directory (AD) because the time will be off. If you do change back the date on the host, make sure that all of the virtual server guests that run on ESX do not synch their time with the ESX host. This is an option in the VMware tools that run on the virtual server guest. This should be resolved by... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

HEY MICROSOFT!
TAKE A MESSAGE FROM IT

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Hey Microsoft! Blog

AUGUST 2008

[6/10/2008]
Tech Ed IT Pro Week Kicks Off with Dynamic IT
- Posted by: Karen Forster
Tech Ed Developer edition is soooo last week.This week, Microsoft has moved on to focus on IT. With all the talk at Bob Muglia’s keynote (and at every Microsoft event I’ve attended in the past couple of years) about “Dynamic IT” and “bridging the gap between developers and IT professionals,” it strikes me as a bit contradictory that Microsoft is splitting Tech Ed over two weeks. But, as Bob Kelly (Microsoft vice president, Infrastructure Server Marketing) told me, “IT pros and developers don’t have to be in the same room to [get on the same wavelength]. It’s really much... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

INDUSTRY BYTES
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE WINDOWS IT PRO EDITORS

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Industry Bytes

AUGUST 2008

[8/29/2008]
Americans Aren't Necessarily Walking the Talk When It Comes to Going Green
- Posted by: Karen Bemowski
Does the "greenness" of a product or service really make any difference to U.S. consumers when it comes to purchasing a new PC or another product or service? A recent survey by The Diffusion Group (TDG) attempts to answer that and other questions concerning the relationship between consumers' perceptions and their behavior when it comes to green-related issues. During the second quarter of 2008, TDG asked more than 1,500 U.S. adult Internet users about their green-related activities, such as their technology recycling habits (e.g., recycling of PC monitors, CPUs, ink jet cartridges), home-related green activities... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

YOUR SAVVY ASSISTANT
THE MISSING LINK TO IT RESOURCES

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Your Savvy Assistant

AUGUST 2008

[7/29/2008]
A New Era of Information Delivery
- Posted by: Christan Humphries
When I first started working for Windows IT Pro, I had never heard of “e-newsletters”—or “UPDATEs” as we refer to them. It didn’t take me long to put the “e” and the “newsletter” parts together. Putting the e-newsletter content together, however, was a whole different story. Back then, our company had a sideways excuse for a tool that was more for launching than creating e-newsletters and didn’t even really send out the final project all that well. I dreaded the day every month when I had to build a new issue. Those days I’d leave the office cross-eyed from... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

SECURITY MATTERS
A BLOG BY SECURITY EXPERT MARK JOSEPH EDWARDS

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Security Matters

AUGUST 2008

[8/29/2008]
W32.Gammima Worm Goes Into Orbit
- Posted by: Mark Joseph Edwards
Somehow the W32.Gammima.AG worm made its way onto the International Space Station, which goes to show how lackadaisical astronauts can be about computer security. Billions are spent building space craft, training astronauts, and sending them back and forth into space. Yet somehow an astronaut toted a computer worm along for the ride?!? Wow!... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

HYPERBOLE, EMBELLISHMENT, AND SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION BLOG
TRUE TALES, SNAFUS, AND URBAN LEGENDS ORIN THOMAS

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Hyperbole, Embellishment, and Sys Admins

AUGUST 2008

[8/20/2008]
Systematic Paranoia
- Posted by: Orin Thomas
As a security administrator you do have to assume that “they are all out to get you”. Not you specifically, but the resources it is your responsibility to manage. They aren’t doing this because you are guarding the crown jewels of Denmark. Attackers are trying every doorknob on the street hoping to find one unlocked, not just trying the ones where they suspect there is a brand new LCD TV. As a good security administrator you need to be systematic with your paranoia. Not only do you have to catalog the threats you face, you need to analyze and prioritize those threats. You need to do this in terms of the likelihood that the threat... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

YOUR CAREER
GETTING STARTED, GETTING AHEAD, GETTING BETTER IN YOUR JOB ORIN THOMAS

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Your Career

AUGUST 2008

[6/4/2007]
Self Paced or Instructor Led Training
- Posted by: Orin Thomas
There are two basic ways of studying for certification. You do it all yourself or you go to a class. Before I go any further I’ll point out that I write Self Paced Training Kits for Microsoft, so there is a bit of an incentive for me to push one method over the other. On the other hand, I’ve also run instructor led courses. Anyway, now that that is out there, on with the post… Each type of study suits a particular person. If you simply can never find the time to study out of hours, or you need someone to give you a bit of a push when it comes to motivation, going to a class can be your best option. Some people simply need the routine... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE.

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Good observations. It differs for many now though since a quick look around the folks attending the ...
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WE'RE IN IT
REAL-WORLD TECH STORIES FROM IT PROS PENTON MEDIA IT TEAM
Penton Media's IT team is in the trenches and ready to share their war stories about OS migration, desktop deployment, systems management, messaging, networking, architecture, and infrastructure.

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We're in IT

AUGUST 2008

[8/28/2008]
Don’t Shoot the Application
- Posted by: Curt Spanburgh Penton Media IT Team
Most of us have heard the expression, “Don’t shoot the messenger” or “Don’t shoot, I’m only the piano player.” That’s still a good admonition when it comes to modern applications that we deal with. Often those ugly errors that we see from application are like a “damsel in distress” calling for help as the freight train speeds toward her.Let’s take a case of an application that’s used by the A/P and A/R folks at a certain company in the desert southwest, where things get pretty thirsty if the local saloon is shut down. They use Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains,... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE.

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Hello Curt, as usual a well written article but it has left me confused. Why did the application wo...
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RUMOR MILL
RUMORS AND SPECULATION ON COMPUTER INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS MICHAEL DRAGONE
IT pro Michael Dragone puts his ear to the ground and reports on the latest industry buzz.

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Rumor Mill

AUGUST 2008

[9/3/2007]
Microsoft Contemplating a Purchase of RIM?
- Posted by: Michael Dragone
Rumors surfaced this past Friday that Microsoft is contemplating a purchase of BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM). I first saw this juicy tidbit mentioned in Paul Thurrott's WinInfo Short Takes: Week of Septembmer 3 (InstantDoc ID: 96953). Soon after I read Paul's piece, I noticed that Computerworld had entered the fray with an article detailing the rumor, including comments from industry analysts. This particular rumor... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE.

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microsoft is a good and big company.it is the inventor of windowsand now he introduce the above one ...
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