November 2008 - Posts

19 November 2008
The Crayon story continues..
It was made official today that we are starting up Crayon in Germany. As  Crayon has extended the philosophy out to Sweden, Finland and Denmark it has been a huge success. I´m looking forward to continue this strong and great story into Germany. I´m a strong beliver in the Crayon way, and I really... Read More...
14 November 2008
Antivirus – for good or bad?
Then it happened again! Another antivirus update, this time from AVG,  left systems no longer bootable. This update deleted a critical file in Windows XP – user32.dll – because it thought that it was infected with PSW.Banker4.APSA or Generic9TBN trojans. Quote: “AVG has since admitted that the detection... Read More...
09 November 2008
Powershell v2
In case you forgot, ofcourse I attended some Powershell v2 sessions at TechEd. After all, I do see Powershell as a very important technology for Microsoft consultants and developers. Jeffrey Snover had a talk on Powershell v2 where he went through some of the investments they do for next version. He... Read More...
09 November 2008
Windows 7 Networking enhancements
I attended a session on Windows 7 networking, and the following is my key takeaways: VPN reconnect You can configurere for how long, but having automatic  reconnect when working on VPN is a nice feature. (if you have worked over mobile networks while roaming, or wireless, I guess you also have experienced... Read More...
09 November 2008
Connecting Active Directory to the cloud
At Teched I attended a very interesting session about connecting Active Directory to the cloud. The session talked about Microsoft Geneva, Microsoft Services Connector and Microsoft Federation Gateway. As we are going through a services revolution with all the things happening in the cloud, identity... Read More...
03 November 2008
Notes from Teched EMEA, day 1
After spending some quality time with my fellow collegaues from Crayon, we went to the Keynote. Speaker was Brad Anderson, General Manager for Management & Services Divison. The topic for the presentation was dynamic it, described as the key for efficiencies and innovation. Hi went on thank the audience... Read More...