So, rebuilding a DFSR server on Server 2008 x64.  Logged in with admin priviliges and ran into an issue.. I didn't find anything on it, and didn't really think about it.     if you open up dfsrdiag and run a command like pollad you get the error ...[Read More]

If you recall, awhile ago I started writing about how I lost everything when my one home server crashed.   You can view that here: http://intranet/charford/blog/archive/2008/07/15/lots-of-changes-here-.aspx       Now with AD actually working, ...[Read More]

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2008/07/21/configuring-terminal-servers-for-server-authentication-to-prevent-man-in-the-middle-attacks.aspx ...[Read More]

AKA throw away your firewalls... networking in the 21st century...   http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2008/06/25/directly-connect-to-your-corpnet-with-ipsec-and-ipv6.aspx     Interesting idea, but I really wish that there were more I ...[Read More]

Well, not really on the front end, but the backend has changed significantly...   Everything was on one machine; my file server, domain controller, dns, dhcp, email, sql, and web server.... it was running powered by a really old Megaraid i4 ATA ra ...[Read More]

In case you haven't heard much about GPO Preferences, you really should look into it.     http://blogs.technet.com/aralves/archive/2008/03/31/group-policies-preferences-client-side-extensions.aspx ...[Read More]