For anyone that has been on this particular blog in the last, well, really long time - I've not been too active with it. And, that generally could be taken as a gross understaement by even the least observant among us. However, I suspect that I won't be posting to this blog for much longer, because it, too, will likely be lost when the rest of my MVP benefits are revoked. Yes, all - it is true. I am losing my MVP status. It pains me to have to announce that I will probably not be able to attend Summit

For those of you who have not yet met Mike Danseglio , you're not quite prepared for the surpise, as well as the pleasure of getting to know him. Mike, for me at least, ended up being nothing like I pictured him. I'll not describe him, as the event has merit for each individual. Suffice it to say Mike is a technologist with an interesting flair. Not quite as 'scholarly' as Jesper Johanssen , but not as flamboyant as Steve Riley . However, he does rate the comparison to the two latter - he's really

Reading the article in Network World this week, ( 11/22/2004, Google search cache spawns SSL fears ) a reaffirmation of the obvious was once again proven true - for most people (including developers, Companies, end users, Infrastructure techs, etc.) security is ABSOLUTELY the last thing that is ever considered. The article contends - and correctly so, that the Google Desktop Engine caches content to the local system - even that stuff that you're trying to protect on your Corporate network that you

Troubleshooting Group Policy in Microsoft® Windows® Server This white paper helps you troubleshoot the most common problems affecting the deployment of Group Policy in a Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2000 environment. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b24bf2d5-0d7a-4fc5-a14d-e91d211c21b2 ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant Documentation The ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant is designed to help you convert ASP pages and applications to ASP.NET. It does not make

If you're living under a rock - first, you're not reading this, and second - you have no clue as to what Windows XP SP2 is. Let me just say, plainly and simply - SP2 is to Windows Security what gasoline is to a car. It's vital, necessary, and you're not getting very far without it. Some folks are a bit perturbed that this type of enhancement (yes - this is a BIG enhancement involving BIG chunks of code....) is not finding it's way to Windows 2000 Professional. Likely, it won't. Reason being is pretty

Okay - I've been - MIA from this Blog (but not missing in any way from the Security and Directory Services scene) but I have some new tools that should make it easier for me to do what I need to do to get more timely information up to the blog. For those of you that have been patient (I can't imagine that there are many) thanks. For those of you that check now and then - look for more consistent updates to the posts here. BTW - we're in the new house and things are great (yeah, we've been here since

Many of you that know me know that I am very active in circles where my expertise is strong. Over the past 6 months, I've spread a little further into the Security realm, and this has been an eye opening move. However, it's also a good growth step. But - this has nothing to do with any of this. My wife and I have purchased a new house and we are busily trying to get our current one on the market by the end of October. I live in Nebraska, and once Football season starts and the snow flys, the house

Like a bad horror flick sequel, the argument keeps getting dredged up, propped into position, and sent out on it's merry way to cause senseless death and destruction. The initial arguments of 'My OS is better than your OS' were bad - now they're just getting ludicrous. And, much like the junk that Hollywood churns out to continue movie franchises that never should have made it past the first movie, the battle just moves to more unbelievable territory. The Linux Camp will have you believe that Linux

In Omaha, NE (the quaint city in the middle of nowhere that I make my home), we have really only two claims to fame. We've got a really cool Air Force Base just south of the city, Offutt Air Force Base which is the home of STRATCOM. You might remember it - Offutt AFB is where President Bush went on 9/11/2001 to determine what the threat was and to confer over super secure, super secret communications equipment with his advisers,while sitting in the security of a bunker complex that would awe the

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer addressed the Worldwide Partner meeting in New Orleans , indicating that the next front for the security initiative is on the desktop - providing more tools and..... oh, yeah - that patch management thing again - in trying to stem the tide of difficulties that the Company has faced. During his keynote, he asked how many people had deployed SUS ( Software Update Services ) internally, and to customers? Getting the response, he indicated that this was the point he had been