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I'm going to be speaking at the next meeting of the Boston Area Windows Server User Group at the Microsoft campus in Waltham (May 4th @ 7pm).  My presentation is called Active Directory Hacks.  I presented something similar at a Windows Connections conference and it received high marks.  I also plan on giving away few […]

Over at the O'Reilly Radar, Tim talks about how book sales track overall technology trends very closely.  I first saw a presentation on this by Tim at the last FOO Camp.  You can draw some very interesting conclusions about adoption of various technologies from their data.  O'Reilly was inspired, at least partially, from Moneyball, which […]

I received an interesting thing in the mail recently–the Russian edition of Active Directory Cookbook.  Here is a picture of the cover:

I have a new article in the April edition of Windows IT Pro: 5 Steps to a Secured Active Directory. In it, I cover the fundamental things system administrators must do to ensure a basic level of security with Active Directory.  Often people concentrate on more advanced security issues such as defending against root kits, […]