Update
It's a busy and very intersting time. This year has been a blast! I was pretty busy in the last couple weeks: Finished a migration project from NT to Windows Server 2003 at a insurance here, did a lot of classes recently (XP, WS2k3, included my talks about AD, DNS, XP SP2 Security Features, ..), couple interesting meetings, Telcos and WebCasts, organized with peers a MVP Get-Together in my area with very interesting guests, had a bad cold and recovered, and lots of other things I can't disclose right now. Additional I've renewed my MCT Certification - I'll still be MCT in 2005 and I'm really looking forward since I strongly believe 2005 will be a blast in the IT.
Later this week I'll drive to a former customer of mine whom I migrated as well, and extend their Active Directory rolebased administration to reflect the latest changes of the requirements since they just migrated to Exchange 2003 - I'm looking forward since it's just great to get back to a smooth AD with well designed roles and nice Administrators. Then I'll have a Schema Extension and Migration coming up - everything is already prepeared but I just love that stuff and look forward to it.
IT-Forum
I'll be at IT-Forum in Coppenhagen in November, and I'll be working some shifts in the Ask the Experts Area at the Windows Server (Directory Services) booth. If you are there and interesting in chatting about the technologies, come by.
Clarification of my last Weblog
I've had some very positive reactions of my last Weblog, however there are a few things I should clarify:
- You need to physically secure your Branch Office DC - I just posted the steps you should take if you are in the process or if you want additional security (keeping it in a locked room might not necessarilly prevent it from being stolen).
- If available encryption of the harddrive is another great step to secure it. I haven't done that yet and don't know if there are products out there which are certified for DCs - if anyone knows some product please comment to share that info.
- Attackers might just image the harddrive or steal data and keep it in place and online - try to figure out how you are able to protect yourself from that stuff and more important, how to recognize that data was stolen. If you are not alerted that something has left the building you won't react with the approbiate measures.
Guess that's it - if you have comments please comment on the weblog so others are able to participate in the discussion - I've received quite a lot via email on this but I'd prefer to keep the discussion public.
Ulf