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• This blog is moving... me too!

  This blog is moving to http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/ Read More... Posted 12 August 2005 17:30 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Microsoft, Industry News, Cool Stuff/Geeky, Tips and tricks, SharePoint, ISA Server, Windows Platform, Macintosh, ISP, SQL Server, Networking, IIS, Office Products, Open Source/Low Cost Software, Security, Exchange and Outlook/Outlook Express, Mobility, Systems Management, Virtualisation, Messaging, *nix, Integration, Web Browsers, Apache, Web Development, Inane Waffle

• New tools for managing and administering SQL Server 2005

  I haven't looked at structured query language (SQL) since I was at Uni', back in the early 1990s, and don't intended to start now; but with a major new SQL Server release due from Microsoft in November, I've been building up my knowledge of the product Read More... Posted 29 July 2005 12:02 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, SQL Server

• Microsoft and SAP alliance site

  I don't know anything about enterprise resource planning (ERP) products, except that SAP are a big player in this space (and that Microsoft runs its business on SAP with a 1.7Tb SQL Server database - pretty much the only non-Microsoft product in use there). Read More... Posted 29 July 2005 11:50 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Microsoft

• Configuring web proxy auto discovery for Internet Explorer clients

  Over the last few weeks, I've been looking at using web proxy auto discovery (WPAD) to let a client's PCs automatically discover the location of their Microsoft ISA Server 2000 web proxy servers through the Internet Explorer client. Note that WPAD is Read More... Posted 26 July 2005 11:15 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, ISA Server, Web Browsers

• Microsoft acquires FrontBridge

  Back in March, I wrote about some new e-mail message continuity services from FrontBridge . Well, according to a press release just received from Microsoft, FrontBridge is about to become Microsoft's latest acquisition as it steps up its systems management Read More... Posted 20 July 2005 21:46 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Industry News, Messaging

• Towards operational excellence on the Microsoft platform

  I was sorting out my den/office this weekend and came across a Microsoft operational excellence resource CD. The concept seems quite good (although the content seemed a little out of date, even bearing in mind that it had sat in a pile of "stuff to look Read More... Posted 11 July 2005 18:09 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Platform, Systems Management

• The wonderful thing about web standards

  Alex and I were having a rant discussion a few days back about web standards after I pointed out to him that Firefox and Safari not being able to supply login credentials within a URL meant they were not RFC-compliant in this respect (and he accused me Read More... Posted 06 July 2005 18:55 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Web Browsers

• Readvertising failed packages with Microsoft SMS

  A few weeks back, my colleague Barry Feist gave me a useful tip for when deploying software using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). Barry doesn't have his own blog, so here are the details. Details of commands executed on the local machine by Read More... Posted 06 July 2005 13:37 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Systems Management

• One last patch for Windows 2000

  Windows 2000 mainstream support is due to end today and a couple of days back, as expected, Microsoft released update rollup 1 for Windows 2000 service pack 4 . Full details of this update (including why it is not called Windows 2000 service pack 5) are Read More... Posted 30 June 2005 15:40 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Platform

• Watch out for cookies when using the Microsoft AntiSpyware beta

  Last year I blogged about Microsoft's acquisition of Giant Software and I've been using their AntiSpyware Beta since it was made available in January ; but last week I was looking at the inordinate amount of spam my Dad receives and that got me thinking Read More... Posted 29 June 2005 19:12 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Security

• Decision time for Windows 2000 users - what I really think

  Last week, I was fortunate enough to be quoted on the front page of IT Week by Martin Veitch, in his article " Decision Time for Win2000 Users ". Of course, as my wife is a Public Relations Consultant , I understand (and even expect) only a partial quote Read More... Posted 27 June 2005 17:37 by mark.wilson | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Industry News, Windows Platform

• How Microsoft does IT

  I was at a presentation last week where some interesting statistics were given about Microsoft's own IT operations: 300,000 devices for 92,000 users in 89 countries. 7,000,000 remote connections per month. 3,000,000 internal e-mails per day. 100,000 e-mail Read More... Posted 29 May 2005 21:48 by mark.wilson | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft

• I'm famous (sort of)

  Some people have commented that I may be a little biased towards Microsoft... and whilst at times that may be a fair comment, if you look at my computers I use various open source programs, I do criticise the software giant from time to time and, let's Read More... Posted 07 May 2005 23:45 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft

• A chance to provide input to some networking features that Microsoft is considering for Windows Longhorn

  Michael Surkan, Microsoft's Program Manager for Networking and Devices, has asked me to post a link to his survey to gain customer input on some networking features Microsoft is considering in the next version of Windows (codenamed Longhorn) : "The Microsoft Read More... Posted 19 April 2005 19:53 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Platform

• Windows XP N

  Microsoft and the European Commission have finally agreed on the name for the version of Windows XP with Media Player removed - Windows XP N. How dull? I preferred Windows XP Reduced Media Edition (after all, one of the benefits of "regular" XP is its Read More... Posted 30 March 2005 12:16 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Industry News, Windows Platform