Daily Archives: January 6, 2004

Admin’s Attic – Coming to Burlington, too

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As per my pal, Thom Robbins (MS New England)

 

Microsoft Presents: The Admin’s Attic with John and Rich (Winter Wonderland Edition)

Two guys taking the work out of your network!

The inaugural Admin’s Attic sessions presented in October were so well received Microsoft is pleased to bring John Kelbley and Rich McBrine back for a second road show. John and Rich are Microsoft technology specialists who focus on infrastructure solutions. They are the guys who delivered the Windows Server 2003 Launch events across New England and got rave reviews because they focus on tools and techniques admins can put to use immediately. Please join them for a highly technical session in which they will show you how to save time and money by taking advantage of Windows management tools and scripts. They will demo the improvements in Windows Server 2003 compared to the NT 4.0 world. No fluff or marketing slides; No ROI talk or licensing talk – just registry settings, command lines, and the MMC. Rich and John have used NT4, 2003 & everything in between, and are convinced they can show you a compelling world of difference. These events will include live demos around real-world implementations of Microsoft technology, including:

NT4 to Windows Server 2003 Upgrade – file system and AD (a live demo of tools and procedures, step-by-step)

Server Hardening, tips, tricks, and techniques – how to lock down systems by policy

Monitoring using Reskit too

ls, the command line, and Microsoft Operations Manager

Target Audience:

For more information on the Admin’s Attic show, visit

IT Professionals

Lots and lots of interactive discussion and white boarding

Cool prizes

www.adminattic.com.

Burlington, VT – 2/12/04
Event Code: 1032242474 Sponsored by: SymQuest
Location: SymQuest, 30 Community Drive, South Burlington, VT
Check in is at 8:30. The event runs from 9:00-12:00.

Also in New England

Waltham, MA – 2/3/04

Farmington, CT – 2/6/04
Portland, ME – 2/10/04
Bedford, NH – 2/11/04

Register today for the session nearest you at www.microsoft.com/usa/events or by calling 877-673-8368.

Longhorn video brings t.v./movie computers to life

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How many times have you watched CSI or some other t.v. show and laughed when their computer does ridiculous things and say “computer programs don’t DO that!” ? Well, I just watched the video of the Longhorn based real estate application by Carter Maslan – and guess what, computers *do* do that now! Especially the Avalon stuff that you see with the mapping and satellite data. Definitely check this out! I am going to email my 3 friends who have been involved with mapping data software (one for IBM’s Geo Coding Plus, one for MapInfo and one for GDT.

Fun with Compressing Web Service Data Returns

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I’ve been playing with Xceed’s .NET Stream Compression component and also fiddling with a compression soap extension written by Paul Glavich . I have this kinda big dataset I need to bring down via a webservice to persist for off line use. It’s almost 4 megs. On my DSL it was taking 2.9 minutes to download. Pity the poor user with dial-up. XCeed got it down to 12 seconds. I wanted to compare it to Paul’s component but have been doing something wrong, so he and I have been emailing back and forth. A lot has been just experimenting. Most of the wasted time has been spent editing the damned WSDL every time I update the webservice on the client side. That’s for WSE and for the soap extensions. What a pain. (Hopefully will discover big changes for that with wse2) Since 10:30 I have said “okay maybe tomorrow….” Finally went upstairs at 11:40 and while loading the toothbrush up with goo, I thought…hmmmm maybe… and here I am still at 12:40. Aaach. But really I’m going to bed right now. After I stick in these hyperlinks. Paul and I have been having fun though and I have learned tons about Soap Extensions thanks to the work that he did.