Think you have to wait until the RTM of Windows 7 to get WHQL certified drivers, think again! ATI has released their WDDM 1.1 compliant and WHQL certified drivers for Windows 7. You can download the 64-bit drivers here. For some reason the 32-bit drivers seem to be older and...
In case you missed it, Adobe has released a patch for a critical Acrobat security vulnerability. InfoWorld has a good write up on the flaw. Adobe released an official bulletin on the patch. If you have any version of Adobe Acrobat (including the free reader), I urge you to install...
Short answer: You can never have too many! Longer answer: It depends. As many people know, VMware ESX is NIC hungry. Between the kernel console, Vmotion, and various production networks, it can take six or more phyiscal NICs to provide full redundancy. If you want to do Microsoft clustering, throw...
Sometimes Microsoft branding and renaming of products really confuses people. For example, ISA vs TMG? The whole ISA/TMG/IAG/UAG re-branding debacle really threw me for a loop. At first the renaming seemed pretty simple, but Microsoft is also re-positioning the products and I don't think MS has done a good job...
One of the greatly enhanced features in Exchange 2010 is the ability to automatically RMS protect messages via transport rules. For example, you could automatically encrypt all messages between HR and Legal. Or you could write a rule that searches message content and prevents forwarding if the string "company confidential"...
During one of the sessions this week on DirectAccess, the speaker mentioned a tidbit of information which I found useful. For those of you running Windows XP and Server 2003, you know the pain of accessing file shares across the WAN. The higher the latency, the dramatically worse the performance....
For quite a while I've been searching for pricing on the Cisco Nexus 1000v switch for ESX vSphere 4.0. Today I had some success at the Cisco booth at TechED. It's licensed on a per-socket basis like ESX licenses. They sell various packs which give you slight cost breaks.The packages...
One of the really mind blowing new features of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 is something called DirectAccess. What is DirectAccess? Think of it as a background VPN to your corporate intranet, but with none of the end-user hassles of a traditional VPN. Work anywhere in the world as...
Here's a short list of some of the new features in Exchange 2010. This is certainly not a comprehensive list, but gives you a flavor of the many enhancements. Built-in e-mail archiving, with full OWA and fat client access. Support for 10+GB mailboxes Shows OCS contacts and can send basic...
During one of the Exchange 2010 sessions at TechED 2009 I attended, Microsoft made what I think is a major announcement. Given a proper design, Microsoft no longer recommends RAID protected disks for your Exchange server and goes a step further and suggests using locally attached SATA drives.This is in...
Once again, I'm here at TechED. This is a great opportunity to learn about the latest and greatest Microsoft technologies. You can also collaborate with peers, and talk with a wide range of vendors. I'll be posting some notes from various sessions that I'm attending. The notes will likely not...
So today I received a request for assistance from another project on a very peculiar problem their system was experiencing. They were deploying a new version of their system and the 'go live' date was fast approaching. Their thin client architecture relies on a Citrix server and during some final...