Monthly Archives: May 2005

The Next Day; a beginning

Posted on May 28, 2005 by Devin

[Editorial note: The Next Day is a working title for now. I do not plan on publishing it on the Internet at this time, beyond what is here. I will be starting to work again on Silicon Cats and new … Continue reading →

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This King kick and the power of words

Posted on May 28, 2005 by Devin

Several months back, I bought the fifth novel (The Wolves of Calla)in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series for Steph. After we read it, we got the final two books from the library and read them. Since then, I’ve been on … Continue reading →

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Active Directory fun: How to verify the presence of an attribute in your schema

Posted on May 24, 2005 by Devin

Alerted by an old net.friend The Cerebrate via his blog, I was stunned to discover that the Windows Server 2003 flavor of the Active Directory schema seems to include an attribute named drink, which is meant to store a person … Continue reading →

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Cookbook progress

Posted on May 21, 2005 by Devin

The Exchange Server Cookbook (final title) is still on schedule for a June release. We finished the final author hands-on review stage a week or two back and got to see our cover this week. (Yes, it’s a baboon; our … Continue reading →

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I blame Shel

Posted on May 16, 2005 by Devin

I’d have posted it directly here, but some of the safety features were biting me in the ass. Either that or the quiz has really lame HTML. Steph and I vote for the latter. So, on to my LJ to … Continue reading →

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Ecubed, Day 4: More Exchange SMTP virtual server myths

Posted on May 5, 2005 by Devin

During today’s session, Konstantin directed our attention to SMTP Virtual Server Myths Exposed a particularly useful and classic post from the Exchange product team blog, You Had Me At EHLO (you are reading that , right?). We used that post … Continue reading →

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Ecubed, Day 3: A neat SMTP connection restriction trick

Posted on May 5, 2005 by Devin

For the rest of the week, I’m in the Securing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003: Defense in Depth class taught by Microsoft’s Konstantin Ryvkin. Konstantin is another extremely knowledgeable member of the Microsoft IT team and is again giving us a … Continue reading →

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