THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"

Mark Crall being the modest person that he is, talks about his amazing demo.  The amazing thing about it was how calm he was during the whole thing.  The entire time he didn't even flinch at all.

It was an amazing demo...both from a technical standpoint as well as a "man is that guy calm".

Views from Lunch at SMBnation....

These are the resources and links to "How NOT to patch" the talk given at SMBnation.com

• [Alert] - Microsoft Technical Security Notifications:  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/notify.mspx
• [Alert] -The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC): http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/
• [Alert] - http://www.microsoft.com/japan/security/default.mspx
• [RISK INDICATOR] - http://www.incidents.org/ - http://www.incidents.org/diary.html?storyid=3367
• [RISK INDICATOR] - milw0rm - exploits : vulnerabilities : videos : papers : shellcode:  http://www.milw0rm.com/
• [RISK INDICATOR]  - My own inbox (seriously)
• [RISK INDICATOR]  - http://msmvps.com/blogs/harrywaldron/
• [RISK INDICATOR]  - http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/subscribe/
• [RISK INDICATOR]  - http://www.eeye.com/html/resources/newsletters/subscribe.html
• [Alternative patching techniques]-  Jesper's Blog:  http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/
• [Risk info] - Microsoft Security Response Center Security Bulletin Severity Rating System: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/rating.mspx
• [Risk Info] http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/ 
• [Patch Pain indicator] - www.patchmanagement.org
• [Patch Pain indicator] - WU newsgroups - http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate
• [Patch Pain indicator] - my own testing
• [Patch fix resources] - WU newsgroups - http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate
• [Patch fix resources] - SBSC and Partner managed newsgroups - http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2006/09/09/747847.aspx

• [POLICY] Acceptable use policy - http://www.sans.org/resources/policies/
• [Technical help] Standard User/Non administrator
• [Technical help] http://www.threatcode.com
• [Browsing Helpers] - http://www.hautesecure.com/
• [Browsing Helpers] - http://www.opendns.com/features/domain_blocking
• [Group policy power] - How to set advanced settings in Internet Explorer by using Group Policy Objects: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274846
• [Group policy power] - Download details: Group Policy Settings Reference: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=41DC179B-3328-4350-ADE1-C0D9289F09EF&displaylang=en

And I guess I should put a shout out for www.windowssecrets.com since I write Patch Articles for it :-)

A few little things to remember....

• Never leave your laptop unlocked
• Never leave a kiosk computer logged into your gmail account
• Never leave a kiosk computer logged into a RDP session

All things seen at SMBnation.com done on computers

(okay... so I did the first one....and I have photos of the second.... )

Dana is talking now about AuthAnvil VM which is a dedicated Win2k3 standard in Virtual server at $100 a month, the tokens will still be sold by Dana for AuthAnvil... very kewl.  So if you don't want to have the AuthAnvil on the same box (which may I say it's a very lightweight system)

http://www.authanvil.com/

Dana is up at the front of the full room talking about AuthAnvil and how it's able  to protect web security on any of web site, company web, RWW or any other web.  1.5 supports VPN as well.

Lots of cool stuff he's got for the small business space for better authentication and security.

(and yes, sorry Dana for being late to the presentation)

Dana has a 'at the show special' ... so if you were not here.. you snooze... you lose.

For those that are having allocated memory alert issues on their SBS boxes, all of posts regarding the commands and tweaks are located under the header of "Allocated memory"

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/tags/Allocated+Memory/default.aspx

If your sql instances are causing memory issues, those are the posts you need to review to make the necessary adjustments.

Mark Crall demo'ing StorageCraft and the standing room only at the back of the room....standing room only...

Handy Andy's blog about Intel and WinPE issues that was referred to in the presentation is at http://blog.sbs-rocks.com/?p=57

The marketplace at SMBnation ...Trend in this view and ThePlanet with Hosted SBS in the vendor marketplace at smbnation

Mark Crall was talking about how he saw what he liked in SBSC program and was really liking how Microsoft is stepping up to the plate.

Man he looks great on the big screen doesn't he?

Do you have a mission statement?  A value statement?  Larry is talking about what it takes to be a sucessful business.

He's talking now about "Finding a mentor".

• Understand what you are good at....
• Understand where you want to go...
• Design mission/vision/values to guide your business.
• Grow your business intelligently

Books to read

• Good to great - Jim Collins
• E-myth revisited
• 5 Disfunctions of a team
• 5 temptations of a CEO
• Think and grow rich
• The great game of business

Exclusive contest for SBSC partners in the USA only - Grand prize is a Grand Canyon Colorado River raft trip, helicopter tours, Las Vegas, etc. 

Next month the details will come out more on this contest....

Eric Ligman is talking about the exclusive SBSC benefits.... the first that I love is the 4 hour guaranteed SLA for the newsgroups. 

Eric is talking now about how hard it is to come in behind "the guy".   To better brand the SBSC there's a new USA based campaign to raise brand awareness of SBSC.

www.Wevegottaguy.com

Eric Ligman announces the new campaign to raise awareness....(and this is the just the beginning landing page so look out for more)

(Amy and I checked... www.wevegottagirl.com isn't yet parked :-)

Resources for SBSC

• D&H has www.dandh.com/sbsc
• SBSC resources - tpam, newsletter , web site, webcasts, RSS
• "Get the edge" contest in FY 08, get activated and tell them about your success
• Not a SBSC member?  www.smbizspecialist.com