January 2006 - Posts

• Moving my articles to The Blogcast Repository

  I plan to move my articles over to my new blog on Brian Tucker's new website before too long. I will update all of the articles on myITforum.com so they have a link to the new article once I get everything moved over. I will probably still do some blogging in both places for a while but I want to make sure I only have one place where I have to maintain my technical articles. I am also starting work on revamping www.smsutils.com and I will probably move the articles there once I have the new site up and running. After seeing Brian's new site, I'm a bit inspired to get my site looking/working better. And running off of a server that isn't in someone's basement. :)  I'm not sure that CS will be a good platform for what I need so I am going to start out by upgrading from DNN 2.1.2 to DNN 4.0.2 and see how that goes. I have a ton of SMS-related scripts that I haven't gotten around to posting anywhere yet. Once I get our website updated I plan to make them available to the world. I think people will find them very useful. Posted Jan 31 2006, 04:26 PM by mbroadstock with no comments Filed under: Misc

• Loaded up IE7 Beta2

  I really like it but I'm having problems doing anything but adding new posts on my blog now. As soon as I go to the admin page it just sends me straight to the “Posts" page. Maybe closing the browser and re-loading the page will help... We shall see. I never thought I'd get away from FireFox for home use but, from what I've seen so far, IE7 is going to be awesome. Posted Jan 31 2006, 04:17 PM by mbroadstock with no comments Filed under: Misc

• New Google toolbar released

  I haven't loaded the new toolbar up yet but I'll be sure to do so today. It doesn't look like there is a Firefox version out yet though... The Google page itself has a list/description of the new features but this article has a good breakdown as well. Apparently they also released a version of the toolbar targetted to the enterprise environment (manageable via GPOs, etc). I'm not exactly sure how this would be utilized....   Posted Jan 30 2006, 12:19 PM by mbroadstock with no comments Filed under: Misc

• New Honda with autopilot

  When they can get it all worked out so I can take a nice nap while travelling cross-country, I'll have to get myself something like this. Posted Jan 30 2006, 12:03 PM by mbroadstock with no comments Filed under: Misc

• WMF patch

  Just saw Tim's post on the Jan 10th patch. My current client (like a lot of companies I am sure) had a conference call with our TAM today and found out about the Jan 10th timeframe earlier today. They also recommended against installing the 3rd-party patch because they don't know what it does. I'm not totally sure I agree with that. I trust the IST guys and they say it only does what it says it does. But the plan, for now, is to hold off on anything and see what happens. We've got a package ready in SMS that will unregister the DLL so we can send it out if things start going bad. The only thing that makes me feel the least bit comfortable is that our pattern files are pretty up-to-date. Every exploit I've read about so far just uses the WMF to install a known virus/trojan. And as long as the pattern files find those, it *should* be ok. (fingers-crossed). Posted Jan 03 2006, 05:32 PM by mbroadstock with no comments Filed under: Active Directory