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(2012-04-17) Microsoft Announces The Windows 8 Editions

Posted by Jorge on 2012-04-17

On the “Blogging Windows” blog, Microsoft announces the different Windows 8 Editions for the client.

Read more by clicking on the following link: Announcing the Windows 8 Editions

Cheers,
Jorge
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(2011-09-23) Microsoft Acquires Certain Assets From bHold (Dutch Company)

Posted by Jorge on 2011-09-23

(2011-09-06) Dutch Root Certificate Authority Being Marked As Untrusted By Microsoft

Posted by Jorge on 2011-09-06

As you may know, a Dutch root certificate authority was hacked a week or so ago. Because of that, it’s root certificate should be marked as untrusted to make sure every issued certificate by that cert authority becomes untrusted to prevent spoofing. Today, Microsoft released an updated fix which marks the root certificate as untrusted. This can see below. More information here.

By targeting “MS-KBQ2607712_Microsoft Security Advisory: Fraudulent digital certificates could allow spoofing” you can download the fix manually for every Windows version still supported (WXP and higher). You can also get the fix through Windows Update.

Make sure to install the hotfix to prevent spoofing!

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(2011-03-18) RSA Servers Hacked And SecurID Data Stolen

Posted by Jorge on 2011-03-18

It appears the RSA servers have been hacked and SecurID Data was stolen.

(2010-11-27) Microsoft Windows’ 25th Anniversary – Happy Anniversary!

Posted by Jorge on 2010-11-27

A good morning to you all. It’s quite early on Saturday as we speak. I couldn’t sleep anymore so I decided to do something useful. Get up, get coffee and blog. The advantage? No screaming kids running around! I already wanted to blog this post about a week earlier, but I did not because the blog server was not available for a day or two. After that I had forgotten about this until I remember it today, about a week later.

BETTER LATE THEN NEVER!!!

Exactly a week ago on November 20th 2010, Microsoft celebrated their 25th anniversary of Windows. Now think about it. What’s the latest and greatest being available at the moment? For the client that’s Windows 7 available in the 32 bit and 64 bit architecture and for the server that’s Windows Server 2008 R2 in the 64 bit architecture only.

On November 20th 1985 Microsoft released Windows 1.0 which was a 16 bit operating system. In that time, this was a state of the art operating system. Nowadays it would be nothing as most likely any wrist watch runs better stuff!

On YouTube there are numerous videos of Steve Ballmer selling the product (Windows 1.0) on TV. It really cracked me up! Although Steve now is 25 years older, I think one thing has never changed about Steve, and that’s how energetic he can be about something.

Check the video out, you can see it here.

Happy Anniversary!

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(2010-03-24) End of Support For Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 And Windows Vista RTM

Posted by Jorge on 2010-03-24

I received the following message from Microsoft asking to spread the word…

As you may be aware, there are a number of Microsoft Windows versions which will go out of support during the coming year. We want to help customers avoid the risk of running unsupported products in their environment.

Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server are approaching 10 years since their launch and both products will go out of support on July 13, 2010.

Windows XP was launched back in 2001. While support for the product will continue, Service Pack 2 will go out of support on July 13, 2010. From that date onwards, Microsoft will no longer support or provide free security updates for Windows XP SP2. Please install the free Service Pack 3 for Windows XP to have the most secure and supported Windows XP platform.

Finally, Windows Vista with no Service Packs installed will end support on April 13 2010. Please install the free Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista to have the most secure and supported Windows Vista platform.

For more information:

http://blogs.technet.com/lifecycle/archive/2010/02/24/end-of-support-for-windows-xp-sp2-and-windows-vista-with-no-service-packs-installed.aspx

Resources:

Service Pack 3 for Windows XP:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68C48DAD-BC34-40BE-8D85-6BB4F56F5110&displaylang=en

Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/default.aspx

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(2010-03-02) Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Has RTMed!

Posted by Jorge on 2010-03-02

Forefront Identity Manager 2010, ILM 2007 FP1′s successor, has RTMed! Finally! J

Get the evaluation version here.

Posted in Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) Certificate Management, Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) Portal, Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) Sync, IT News | Leave a Comment »

(2009-04-16) Active Directory’s 10th Anniversary In A Production Network

Posted by Jorge on 2009-04-16

Did you know that exactly a week ago, on April 9^th, Active Directory celebrated its 10^th anniversary? Yep, it’s true. On April 9^th 1999, the very first domain controller was deployed on a production network at Microsoft.

!!! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY !!!

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(2008-09-12) Quest Buys Netpro

Posted by Jorge on 2008-09-12

Quest just bought Netpro!

Holy crap!

(2007-05-15) Longhorn Got Its Name! – “Windows Server 2008”

Posted by Jorge on 2007-05-15

Windows Server Longhorn which should go RTM the end of 2007, or maybe even begin 2008, got its new name. Its new name is "Windows Server 2008". It is not that of a surprise. I was betting on either "Windows Server 2007" or "Windows Server 2008".

More information about Windows Server Longhorn, oh sorry… I mean "Windows Server 2008" can be found here.

OK, how many times is the name going to change this time? Place your bets!

Posted in Beta/RC Stuff, IT News, Windows Server | 1 Comment »

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(2012-04-17) Microsoft Announces The Windows 8 Editions

(2011-09-23) Microsoft Acquires Certain Assets From bHold (Dutch Company)

(2011-09-06) Dutch Root Certificate Authority Being Marked As Untrusted By Microsoft

(2011-03-18) RSA Servers Hacked And SecurID Data Stolen

(2010-11-27) Microsoft Windows’ 25th Anniversary – Happy Anniversary!

(2010-03-24) End of Support For Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 And Windows Vista RTM

(2010-03-02) Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Has RTMed!

(2009-04-16) Active Directory’s 10th Anniversary In A Production Network

(2008-09-12) Quest Buys Netpro

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