The DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs are moving to Windows Server 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the past three years, the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs have been hosted on an infrastructure running Windows Server 2012 R2. This is about to change.   End of support for Windows Server 2008 On January 14th, 2020, Microsoft is ending the support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. For the DirTeam.com … Continue reading "The DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs are moving to Windows Server 2019"

The DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs feature on Feedspot’s Top 50 Azure Blogs

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week, we received a message from Anuj Agarwal congratulating us being selected by Feedspot’s panelists as one of the Top 50 Microsoft Azure Blogs and Websites To Follow in 2019. We feel honored.              About Feedspot Feedspot is an internet-based service for content reading. Feedspot lets you read all your favorite blogs and websites … Continue reading "The DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs feature on Feedspot’s Top 50 Azure Blogs"

The DirTeam.com/ActiveDir.org Weblogs in 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Goodbye 2018! As we say goodbye to yet another calendar year, we’re sharing our achievements for the past year. Pageviews and visits Throughout 2018, the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs served five and a half million pages. To be exact: we saw 5,609,225 pageviews. From a visitor point of view, this results in the following diagram: … Continue reading "The DirTeam.com/ActiveDir.org Weblogs in 2018"

An update to our privacy posture

Reading Time: 5 minutes Over five years ago, we defined our privacy posture on this blog. Today, as many organizations are (finally) getting ready for the European Union (EU)’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), privacy is a hot topic. Today, I want to dive a bit deeper on what GDPR means to us at the DirTeam.com and ActiveDir.org Weblogs (dirteam.com). … Continue reading "An update to our privacy posture"

DirTeam at the Microsoft Global MVP Summit

Reading Time: 2 minutes Microsoft organizes the global Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Summit from March 4, 2018 to March 9, 2018 on its Redmond campus. All current MVPs are invited to join the product teams in an interactive exploration of the current products, technologies, roadmap and strategy.   About Microsoft MVPs Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals )MVPs) are technology … Continue reading "DirTeam at the Microsoft Global MVP Summit"

The DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs in 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes On this last day of 2014, I invite you to look back at 2014 with me on the wonderful things the team behind the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs have achieved. Calendar year 2014 wasn’t just another year in our history. It was a very important and challenging year. A year in which we changed the underlying platform … Continue reading "The DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs in 2014"

The DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs in 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutes On this last day of 2013, I invite you to look back at 2013 with me on the wonderful things the team behind the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs have achieved.

Calendar year 2013 wasn’t just another year in our history. It was a pivotal year. A year in which we laid the foundation for you, as our respected readers, to feel invited to check back often and enjoy the central role Active Directory plays in today’s networking infrastructures.

Reading Time: 2 minutes On this last day of 2013, I invite you to look back at 2013 with me on the wonderful things the team behind the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs have achieved.

Calendar year 2013 wasn’t just another year in our history. It was a pivotal year. A year in which we laid the foundation for you, as our respected readers, to feel invited to check back often and enjoy the central role Active Directory plays in today’s networking infrastructures.

The DirTeam.com/ActiveDir.org Weblogs now offer DNSSEC

Reading Time: 2 minutes As the team behind the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs, these days, we aim to give you, the people visiting our website, the most secure and compliant experience available. To this purpose, we’ve already implemented IPv6. We’ve decided to introduce AAAA records in our DNS zones and configure our servers with IPv6 addresses.

The DirTeam.com/ActiveDir.org Weblogs no longer offer SSL v2.0

Reading Time: < 1 minute As you might be aware, the DirTeam.com/ActiveDir.org Weblogs offers the ability to encrypt all http traffic to and from the website using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) since December 2010. To enable this, you only need to direct your traffic to https://blogs.dirteam.com instead of https://dirteam.com. The functionality also includes feeds and (when you’re a blogger with … Continue reading "The DirTeam.com/ActiveDir.org Weblogs no longer offer SSL v2.0"