January 2009 - Posts

• New Crayon blog about Software Asset Management

  Please take a look at our SAM blog at http://blog.crayon.no/blogs/sam/ . They will write posts about different aspects around licensing, both economic and legal. For all us technicians it nice to go someplace to learn about the other sides as well. Please take a look! Posted Jan 29 2009, 11:37 PM by ragnar with no comments

• Speaking at HackCon

  I will be presenting at something called “the Microsoft day” at HackCon 2009. This would be February 16th in Oslo, Norway. My speak would be about Windows Server 2003/Windows Server 2008 security. Really looking forward to this – I have always enjoyed HackCon. So if you would be attending – please stop by and say hi :) Posted Jan 29 2009, 11:33 PM by ragnar with no comments Filed under: Windows Server 2008, security, Windows Server 2008 R2, Speaking, conference

• TechNet Live coming to a city near you

  At least if you are in Norway :) In March TechNet Live and MSDN Live would go for yet another roadtrip in Norway, visiting Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Oslo. I have the pleasure of presenting in every city – this time I´m going to talk about Exchange Server. In Stavanger I´m also going to talk about Windows Server 2008. My Exchange presentation would be about lessons learned – nice tricks that make your day administering Exchange Server 2007 easier. Maybe I even take with me some of my Powershell stuff – you never know :) Hope to see you around ! Dates:   5/3  Stavanger 10/3 Bergen 12/3 Trondheim 19/3 Oslo Posted Jan 29 2009, 11:21 PM by ragnar with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Speaking, TechNet

• Performance Windows Server 2008 fileserver with Symantec Endpoint Protection

  Just before Christmas I experienced a fileserver cluster running on Windows Server 2008 with poor performance. Researching the problem we figured out that the antivirus was causing the problem. A quick search on Internet gave us a lot of results from other people suffering the same problem.Today I had a customer with the exact same problem - same configuration, same problem.  Applying the latest update from Symantec should fix the problem. ( I think this is update is called R4) UPDATE: The update did not fix the problems either. Symantec Endpoint Protection is still creating a performance problem on WIndows Server 2008 File clusters. Solution at customer was to install Forefront Client Protection! Way to go (and thanks to Terje for pointing this out :) ) Posted Jan 08 2009, 02:09 PM by ragnar with no comments Filed under: Windows Server 2008

• Windows 7 available for download

  If you are a Technet or MSDN subscriber you can now download Windows 7 beta :) It was made available last night - on january 7 :) Go check it out - as for me, I enjoy Windows 7 each day - loving it! Posted Jan 08 2009, 02:00 PM by ragnar with no comments