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Reading Time: < 1 minute It was more than 6 years ago when I’ve decided to join the other side as Microsoft employee with Microsoft Consulting in Poland. And this was good move. As every such move it brought some changes in private and professional live. One of those changes was that my MVP award, Directory Services at that time … Continue reading "History likes to repeat itself"

Reading Time: < 1 minute May and June this year are speaking engagements months for me. Mostly these engagements are local events in Poland – if you're interested in them, please visit my Polish blog. One event will be in English and is organized on-line through Live Meeting by my friend, Polish MVP – Robert. If You have spare 75 minutes on the … Continue reading "Speaking in June"

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post is the beginning of new troubleshooting saga – Everybody lies … except network traffic. Chapter 1: the case of the mysterious DHCP Server. In my daily job as an IT consultant sometimes I have to deal with problems. Different kind of problemss – easy, hard … it depends on the case. A few days before … Continue reading "Everybody lies … except network traffic … DHCP"

Reading Time: 4 minutes Well … at least in Poland we are saying that what happens once can happen again … like in Battlestar Galactica world. In last days it turned out that the same saying is true for network protocols. At least for one of them some time ago well known as Finger. For those who are too … Continue reading "Point your (web)finger at me"

Reading Time: 2 minutes This September – at least for me – is a speaking season. I’m speaking at two conferences. First is TEC 2009 organized by Quest in Berlin. TEC will gather many of well known people as speakers – let me quote Gil here: TEC is comprised to two conferences this year. TEC/Identity and Access features speakers … Continue reading "September – speaking season"

Reading Time: < 1 minute People used to believe in four elements, but it showed up that in our times and Internet era there might be one more – Identity element. Donovan and Vittorio started new series of videos on Chanel 9 with this name:   So far there is only introduction to a series and video interview with Stuart … Continue reading "Air, fire, water, earth … identity"

Reading Time: < 1 minute It was funny to watch “I’m PC” guy doing advising on brain surgery on last Battlestar Gallactica episod. BTW – BSG after the break is probably best part of this series in its four seasons. Its a pity that it ends. And to keep this post tech related – joe has released new ADFind version … Continue reading "“I’m PC” guy doing brain surgery"

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve described this first on my blog written in Polish so this will be a story and moral in one post – which in original was two posts. Story …. I had to install IdM solution I deployed some time ago in new test environment and part of deployment was to deploy ASP .NET application. … Continue reading "HTTP 404 … case of missing ASPX page"

Reading Time: < 1 minute OK … this isn’t an advocacy post :), but I remember discussions few years ago how to tweak NT or 2000 to run without swap file on newsgroups ;). It isn’t something I would do on purpose however it had happened on my T61P + 4GB RAM system. Actually I ran it without swap file … Continue reading "Who need a swap file ?"

Reading Time: < 1 minute MTS is acronym for Microsoft Technology Summit which is TechED like conference held by Microsoft in Poland. Few thousands of attendees, almost 90 sessions in two days.  During this year I delivered two sessions – one which was about AD replication (topology, USN mechanics, UTD vector etc.) and second was random thoughts about different interesting … Continue reading "MTS 2008 post mortem"