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June 2006 - Posts

Webcast: System Center Reporting Manager 2006...

posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:58 PM by cavis
I am delivering a webcast on above topic tomorrow. You can register here. Here are some supporting links and info that may or may not come up in the webcast - Microsoft Technet Site SCRM 2006 – Trial Version Download SCRM 2006 Home Page SCRM Read More
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Upgrade to Community Server 2.0...

posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:13 PM by cavis
I just finsihed updating my blog server to Community Server 2.0. Fairly painless although it did take some rummaging around to get the MetaBlog posting working again with BlogJet. I won’t have a chance to dig into and enable any new features till Read More
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Migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003....

posted Monday, June 26, 2006 2:29 PM by cavis
A little over a year ago, I delivered a Live Technet Briefing on the above subject. It was well received and generated lots of happy comments from customers. I have had a couple of questions in the past few days about this so I have decided to re-post Read More
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Security Session Resources....

posted Monday, June 26, 2006 11:39 AM by cavis
It would appear there are some issues with the content on the latest Technet Resource DVD. I have received a few emails about not being able to locate slides and some apps. All of the session slides are located here. These are the slides for the Securing Read More
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Shaving my head......

posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:15 AM by cavis
I am a little shocked that no one has been pestering me about if I am supposed to shave my head or not as a result of attendance at our SQL launch events last year. If you don’t know what I am talking about, read this….I’ll wait Read More
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Backing up Exchange at the file level.....simply.

posted Monday, June 19, 2006 5:16 PM by cavis
I probably get asked this a dozen times a quarter…. “Chris/Dude/TechNet Guy/Geek/Hey….You!/Presenter/Microsoft Guy/#$%&*^&! how do I EASILY and SIMPLY migrate my Exchange data from one server to another?” The reasons Read More
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Bill Gates leaving MS?

posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:55 PM by cavis
….well….not for another two years anyway. It seems Bill has decided to focus on his philanthropic efforts with teh Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This transition is supposed to take place in 2008 so we still have a couple of years left Read More
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A NEW Technet Resource DVD...

posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:44 AM by cavis
You — “What the hell is that?” Me — “It’s cool…..stuff”“ You — <blank stare> (I get that a lot….) Me — “The Technet Resource DVD contains whitepapers, admin tools, Read More
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Security Presentations in SoCal

posted Monday, June 12, 2006 10:39 AM by cavis
I will be delivering two security seminars in SoCal next week. Jun 20 at the Edwards Mira Mesa Theater in NE San Diego and repeating the same seminar on Jun 22 in Garden Grove. I will be discussing three primary topics: Session One deals with Wireless Read More
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A little more detail.....

posted Friday, June 09, 2006 2:11 PM by cavis
here is a little more regarding the server issue I had. Two days ago, i tried logging into my web server and was told it could not locate the DC. This lead me to the DC where I discovered a drive going bad on the RAID array. Now I don’t have a fancy Read More
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Kaboom.

posted Friday, June 09, 2006 1:25 PM by cavis
Belly up. That is what happened to my DC’s on my home network. I just got around to identifying an issue with my firewall that has apparently kept the blog offline for quite awhile. I still have to move some hardware around to accomodate for some Read More
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The horror of it all....

posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:41 PM by cavis
…so I sit down with my handy copy of Ghost to image my web server before making some last minute updates on the way to the CS upgrade. Only when I go to logon, I get a message that the system is unable to contact a domain controller. Quite Read More
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A little off the sides please....

posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:12 AM by cavis
….I have trimmed my Category list significantly. No need to be so granular and if I need to I can create a new category. Also, looks like I am going to stick with CS.   Cheers! Read More
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Vista has Alzheimers?

posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:41 AM by cavis
…..well…sort of. It isn’t a bad thing either. Unless, of course, you consider randomly changing the load locations of DLL’s each boot cycle to help stifle malware, a bad thing. Go check out Michael Howard’s post about Address Space Layout Randomization Read More
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Webcast: Planning and Deploying Branch Office Technologies in Windows 2003 R2

posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:27 AM by cavis
….is officially my longest and geekiest subject….wow. I am delivering a webcast on the afformentioned geek topic today at 11am. Two things make this web cast special. 1) The webcast content is good, 2) this will be the first webcast I deliver Read More
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New BlogJet...

posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:19 AM by cavis
I just loaded up the latest version of BlogJet. The install seems to have gone flawlessly. Even on Vista Beta 2. This is the first post I am making. I am noticing that BlogJet is highlighting words like hyperlinks. We will see what they do.   Posting….Now! Read More
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Vista and Office 2007

posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 5:25 PM by cavis
I have taken the leap and started using Vista and Office 2007 on a daily basis. It has only been 2 days but I must say I am quite pleased. I have manged to get most of the apps that I run on a daily basis up and working with Vista. I have yet to put Office Read More
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dasBlog or Community Server??

posted Monday, June 05, 2006 5:16 PM by cavis
So I am nearing the end of my tweaks on Community Server and decide to grab dasBlog as an alternative blogging server. So I am delaying the roll out of the new blog for at least a few more days while I play with dasBlog… Cheers! Read More
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A day late and a lot of dollars short...

posted Friday, June 02, 2006 8:40 AM by cavis
Moving. It is stressful, time consuming, costly and physically demanding if you do it all yourself (we did). The Nun and I have spent the last two weeks painting rooms, cleaning up, and trying to make furniture from the previous home work in the Read More
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