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I was in a discussion and someone said to me that greater than 60% of Enterprise class Microsoft customers are already virtualizing writeable Domain Controllers in their production corporate environments.  !!!B??u?!l!l!?s??h!!i!??t?!!! I started chuckling when I heard this. I don’t believe even for a second that the numbers are ANYWHERE near that level of penetration. […]

Semi-imaginary conversation… Techie1: Here is our private cloud solution, it costs X. Techie2 (speaking for customer): Ummm, they were thinking more of a budget "just-like-a-private-cloud" solution I guess. Techie1: Ah, so they really want the fake movie fog, not a Private Cloud. Techie1: On the outside it looks like a real private cloud solution but […]

…going around telling companies that virtualizing DCs is perfectly safe and there are no concerns without having even the slightest bit of information about the delivery model and environment in question. Morons. If you are talking to someone from one of those two companies and really any consulting company and they say something like virtualizing […]

…what items trigger VMWare to update the vmgenid? I don’t know, so I asked them at   http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2013/01/windows-server-2012-vm-generation-id-support-in-vsphere.html#comment-1252   This is in relation to yesterday’s post at http://blog.joeware.net/2013/02/20/2675/      joe Rating 4.50 out of 5

…an alias for Active Directory anti-USN Rollback functionality. I heard that today and I wanted to spit on my monitor. …a statement from Microsoft that you can’t hurt yourself when virtualizing DCs. I have heard this implied multiple times in the last few months; primarily from Microsoft Consulting folks who aren’t actually supporting any systems, […]

…unless there is no aspect of AD testing for the Dev/Test stuff. I.E. No testing of AD authentication, no testing of AD IDs, no testing of management of AD, either on purpose or as a side effect of the testing you really are doing, etc. For example, if you are testing a new version of […]

http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2013/01/windows-server-2012-vm-generation-id-support-in-vsphere.html   Update: Also read this –> http://blog.joeware.net/2013/02/20/2675/ Rating 4.00 out of 5

http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/rdp-sec-check   Story There was an issue where I needed to be able to ascertain whether or not a terminal server was listening for RDP and actually functioning properly. The main advice out there was to use portqry which simply told you whether or not the TCP port was listening or Telnet which wasn’t very […]