Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

I’ve been waiting a bit too long to update here and missed a few things…
First, Joseph Davies (aka “The Cable Guy” on Technet) has released the entire TCP/IP Fundamentals for  Microsoft Windows in PDF format.
Click here for the ebook
More to come later today or early tomorrow…

I posted an entry over on my personal blog that has described the turmoil, loss, and grief that I have been going through recently and thought that it would be ideal to post here.  The following is an excerpt:
As you may or may not have noticed, all of my old content here has been removed.  [...]

After spending the past two months wading through the Vista Networking public newsgroup over at msnews.microsoft.com, I have come up with the following tips that will save the users from many problems:
1.  If you are having network access/connectivity issues AND you have a Norton or McAfee network security (not AV, but I won’t go there [...]

This is from a mailing list that I am on:
So, without further adieu, we are proud to present you with our “ExtraOutlook” tool that allows you to launch as many Outlook instances as you want. All you have to do is configure the profiles you want, and then type: ExtraOutlook.exe “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE” (after you [...]

I want to post a quick update.  As some of you noticed, the site had a bit of downtime late last week.  I’m sorry that I was unable to post a notice before hand, but I had to undergo emergency server maintenance and I needed to recreate all of my websites from scratch.  In the [...]

As I said in my first weekend roundup, I was going to install a copy of Windows Home Server this past week. Well, I ended up doing so, using VMWare Server on my “real” home server that runs Windows Server 2008 RC0 beta (and I will reserve the future rant of VMWare NOT SIGNING [...]

This week, I’m a day late, but I have some new links to some interesting software products, a virus warning, and more news:
New Applications:

 ”Open Data Center Network Management System” - Late last week, I got an email asking me to evaluate and comment on this new application.  I haven’t had a chance to install or [...]

This is the first of (hopefully) a continual series of what is new in the Networking and IT World for the past week:

MS Internal use of Network Access Protection Channel 9 Video - Jeff Sigman (of the NAP team) and Brent Atkison (of MS-IT) talk about how NAP is implemented on the Microsoft network.
Ubuntu 7.10 [...]

Last week, I attended the “Winstock 07″ tour/seminar held on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. Although we weren’t allowed to take any pictures during the event due to our non-disclosure agreements, I did take some pictures of campus, Seattle fall colors, and some nice views of Mt. Rainier. If you are so [...]

I have upgraded this site to the last development version of Wordpress.  This is in preparation for the (hopefully) simple upgrade to 2.3 on Monday (if I had to update during the week, it would never happen…)
This is a sanity test posting.