This Wednesday, Dave and I demoed managing iPad devices from an enterprise perspective. In this blogpost, I’ll go over the contents of that session and show you how to achieve centralized management of iPads ((but also including other iOS devices, like iPhones and iPods), without breaking a sweat. First, let me quickly outline the four … Continue reading "Centralized iPad management with profiles and policies"
Author: Sander Berkouwer
Sander Berkouwer is the author of the Active Directory Administration Cookbook, speaker and blogger at DirTeam.com and ServerCore.net. He is awarded Microsoft MVP, Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert.
Since 2009, Microsoft has awarded Sander with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. Since 2016, Veeam has awarded Sander with the Veeam Vanguard award.
Active Directory-related KnowledgeBase articles for May 2011
This month, Microsoft released a couple of KnowledgeBase articles, related to Active Directory. Some of these articles provide guidance on typical Active Directory management tasks, where other articles intend to fix inconsistent behaviour.
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
So far May hasn’t much of a speaking month for me. It allowed me to regain some peace and quiet and allowed me to rethink the messages, appearance and jokes in some of the sessions I delivered earlier this year. Also, I’ve been ramping up two nice speaking sessions in the next two weeks, that … Continue reading "Upcoming Speaking Engagements"
A new challenge!
Last month, I embraced a new challenge. I accepted to become co-author for the TechNet Netherlands newsletter. About the Microsoft Netherlands newsletter This bi-weekly newsletter features the latest news, innovations, product announcements, releases, security bulletins and links to the latest downloads. It links heavily to the enormous TechNet library, with its vast amounts of information … Continue reading "A new challenge!"
Windows 7 and SSDs, Part 3 (Security Best Practices)
Solid State Disks (SSDs) offer great performance enhancements, especially when you follow the guidelines in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. From an information security point of view, however, these devices are nightmare in terms of data confidentiality. Recent studies from the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) show securely wiping SSDs … Continue reading "Windows 7 and SSDs, Part 3 (Security Best Practices)"
Getting your Active Directory ready for Windows 7, Part 5
Change is upon us. Where many Active Directory administrators have stuck with Windows XP, because no valid alternatives (Windows Vista, *nix) were available, now the business wants to upgrade to Windows 7. Whatever the business reasons behind Windows 7, as an Active Directory administrator a couple of key elements should stand out. We’ve already covered … Continue reading "Getting your Active Directory ready for Windows 7, Part 5"
Speaking engagements for April
While March 2011 was an exhilarating month with some fun speaking engagements, April 2011 is also shaping up to become a month where I won’t be visiting customers much. Since it seems Microsoft is not planning to (pre)-release any big platform products this month, I think it’s not going to be a big problem to … Continue reading "Speaking engagements for April"
Getting your Active Directory ready for Windows 7, Part 4
In the past three parts of this series, I already gave you some tips and tricks to tackle the problems you might encounter when introducing Windows 7 in your existing environment. We’ve already covered a schema update, when we looked at storing BitLocker and TPM recovery information in Active Directory. This post features another schema … Continue reading "Getting your Active Directory ready for Windows 7, Part 4"
DirTeam Bloggers at the 2011 MVP Summit
Microsoft is hosting the 2011 MVP Summit this week. Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are invited over to Seattle, Bellevue and Redmon by Microsoft to enjoy a week of technical sessions (for certain MVP expertises) at the Microsoft Campus, stay at one of the Bellevue Hotels and of course party in Seattle.
Speaking engagements for March
Sometimes I’m glad I’m not making my money speaking. The last few weeks were absent with public speaking engagements, but March 2011 seems poised to change all that! (at least for a month) I’m invited to speak at a Microsoft event for owners of businesses with less than 250 seats, a Dutch Career event … Continue reading "Speaking engagements for March"