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Stuff I read: Twitter outage via DNS hijacking

Lars Krogh — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:04:53 +0000

Looks like Twitter was hit by DNS hijacking … hmm … I wonder what Lance Armstrong did during the outage when he wasn’t able to twitt :-)

Stuff I read: W7, W2008R2 and the GPO Central Store

Lars Krogh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:46:45 +0000

Here’s a great blog on the GPO Central Store - posted on the Directory Services Team blog.

Lot’s of good background information …

Stuff I read: ConfigMgr Roadmap

Lars Krogh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:28:41 +0000

This should be the roadmap for ConfigMgr (Note. Microsoft will not name it ConfigMgr vNext, but ConfigMgr 2011 (source: TechNet EMEA 2009)).

The 2007 R3 release should be all about power management (Green computing/Green IT), so I think, I’ll skip that one and concentrate on the 2011 release.

Stuff I read: Microsoft probing Windows 7 zero-day hole

Lars Krogh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:51:31 +0000

This could be nasty – quote: ” … you can get remotely smashed via IE or even via some broadcasting NBNS [NetBIOS Naming Service] tricks”. Read the rest here

Stuff I read: The Machine SID Duplication Myth

Lars Krogh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:25 +0000

I starting working with desktop deployment using batch scripts and tools like DeployCenter and Ghost. I used NTSID to generate a new SID for systems that was a clone of a master.

Now read this blog from Mark Russinovich - quote: NewSID (later version of NTSID) has never really done anything useful and there’s no reason to miss it now that it’s retired. Microsoft’s official policy on SID duplication will also now change and look for Sysprep to be updated in the future to skip SID generation.