Trust. It is an interesting thing in Active Directory.

This week has been interesting, mainly in that I was reminded about the simple things in Active Directory and how much harder they become when you dont pay them enough attention. Replication is much like Ron Burgundy – kind of a big deal. If you do not pay enough attention to replication between domain controllers in Active Directory, bad things happen.

Service Pack 1 is here… for some

I noticed today that Service Pack 1 for Windows 7/2008R2 was released. Since I am curious just to see what is noticably new here I was more than happy to load it and see what I got.

Are Microsoft and EMC beginning a renaissance of geek respect?

What’s the difference between naughty and nice when it comes to IT companies? Microsoft and EMC would definitely not have made the nice list over the last decade, but things are changing. With their competition taking dents in the ongoing battles, Microsoft and EMC just don’t look so bad anymore.

What If Microsoft Virtualization Editions Existed?

The fact that Microsoft has embraced virtualization is an understatement. The fact that Microsoft has been slow to embrace other virtualization vendor’s capabilities to run Windows operating systems as guests is equally an understatement, but what if this wasn’t the case? That is, what if Microsoft abandoned the licensing strategy of anchoring Windows to physical hardware?