Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

Joseph Davies (of the Windows Server Networking team and also known as the Cable Guy) has recently released a new online book entitled TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows that is available on Technet.
From Joseph’s posting on the server networking newsgroup:
This online book is a structured, introductory approach to the basic
concepts and principles of the Transmission [...]

From the NAP (Network Access Protection) weblog:
TechNet Webcast: Network Access Protection for Windows Server Codename “Longhorn” and Windows Vista (Level 200)
Start Time:         Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
End Time:         Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:30 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Viruses, worms, and malware are a costly [...]

I have spent the past two days running Vista Beta 2 through its paces at the office - to see how “production-ready” it is. It’s getting there, but I still have a few unresolved problems:
1. Although my machine is capable of running Glass, there is no way I can tell it to enable [...]

This post is off-topic (or is a related topic) to the normal content here, but I have seen many search terms related to the MSFP (MS Feature Pack for WM5 devices) and other WM-centric questions being directed here…
To answer a few of the questions, I will start here:
1.  Is there a MSFP-capable release for the [...]

This bit of news is a bit old (on the 5th of May), but there hasn’t been much posted in the blogosphere about it…
VMWare Server Beta 3 has been posted and is available for download.
Click here for the download.

Tags: VMWARE

OK - another Exchange tool to keep in the back of your mind in case you should ever need it (although you can do everything this tool does manually at the command line, but that is too much pain for me).
From the download site:
The Exchange Server Disaster Recovery Analyzer programmatically collects configuration data and header [...]

While at the chat site, I noticed that Microsoft has finally enabled RSS feeds for the different chats.
For technical chat (what most here would be interested in), go here.
For developer chats, go here.
For all chats, go here.
Also, per Robert Scoble, MS has a complete list of all of the RSS feeds published located at http://www.microsoft.com/rss

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MS is holding a chat on Routing and Remote Access tomorrow (5/10) at 10:00 AM Pacific Time.  From the chat site:
Secure Configuration of Routing and Remote Access using filters, firewall and Remote Access Policy
If you have any questions about configuring a VPN Remote Access Server then here is an opportunity to ask the experts. A [...]

On my new favorite topic, Steve Lamb is going through a series of postings entitled “JourneyThrough: Network Access Protection“.  Be sure to check that out (bookmarked).

In my extended absence, I failed to note that the NAP (Network Access Protection) (Network Access Protection) Team at MS has a blog..
This is my most anticipated feature in Vista/Longhorn Server (note my disappointment that it wasn’t included in R2, but I completely understand why the decision was made).
This will be a boon for small/mid-sized [...]