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Category Archives: MS Tech Ed 2008
Microsoft TechEd 2008 Final Thoughts
Its Friday afternoon, and I am sitting in the community lounge area on the main pavillion floor as this conference is winding up. I will have to leave soon to catch my plane back to Nashville. I can hear the … Continue reading
How Microsoft IT is improving AD Management
Interactive session that is going over how Microsoft uses ILM to provision new accounts. Interesting that they have a bucket where new accounts are put if they do not fit or match their logic. This then requires a human to … Continue reading
Friday Morning
Spent the morning doing another hands on lab, and talking with microsoft reps. Matt had recommended the Hyper-V lab, so I went and tried it. It was a very cool experience. I was amazed at how easy it was to … Continue reading
Active Directory Federated Services – The good, bad and ugly
This session was an interactive discussion on the Operational perspective of implementing ADFS at Microsoft. Last year they had a similar session that was mainly theoretical. This year they talked about their practical experience. Environment was deployed in Microsoft’s extranet last … Continue reading
Hands On Labs
Spent some of the morning in the hands on labs. This was a pretty cool thing. Got to do a lab on administering a Read Only DC. I also did a lab on learning power shell. both were good labs. … Continue reading
Server 2008 Security Overview
This session was basically an overview of security enhancements that were made as part of Server 2008. · Windows Server Core. Much reduced attack surface. Security features: Firewall – big upgrade. Integrated with IPSEC. Rules are more intelligent. Lots of … Continue reading
Deploying and Remotely Administering Server Core
Andrew Mason Why server core? – Windows server is frequently deployed to support a single role or a fixed workload. – Allowed server to be focused on one role. – Reduces patches – Smaller foot print Server core is command … Continue reading
For those about to Deploy Windows 2008…
This session was not the best. I did hear that Windows Server 2008 will have one more release in the July time frame. That is good to know. The session was conducted by a third party contractor, not microsoft. He … Continue reading
Do these 10 things or get 0wn3d
This session was an entertaining high level view of security items to think about by Steve Riley. Not a lot of practical stuff here. Mostly a high level feel good type session for folks who are new to security. I’ll … Continue reading
Server 2008 Overview
This was a great session by Joey Snow. There was a lot of information in a very short time. So I am just going to put my notes in here and try and make them reader friendly. Started with a … Continue reading
Dan at a Conference 