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New Kindle Fires!

by @ Friday, September 7th, 2012. Filed under general

New Kindle Fire’s available plus the "original" version (though faster) has been marked down to $159. 7" Original but faster version – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0083Q04IQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0083Q04IQ&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwjoewarenet-20 7" HD – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GGCAVM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008GGCAVM&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwjoewarenet-20 8.9" HD – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GFRB9E/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008GFRB9E&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwjoewarenet-20 8.9" HD with 4G – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GFRBBW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008GFRBBW&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwjoewarenet-20 Rating 4.00 out of 5

Poll on the understanding of how Machine Account Joins and Machine Account Password Changes work under the covers

by @ Friday, September 7th, 2012. Filed under tech

I am looking into an issue related to the subject, the background functioning of Domain Join (which involves setting the computer account password in the domain) and also Computer Account Password Changes in general. My understanding, which appears to possibly be flawed now based on some lab testing is that computer account password changes are […]

New Active Directory Replication Status Tool

by @ Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. Filed under tech

Just found out about this, haven’t had a chance to look at it. Trying to recover from vacation still. 🙂   http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2012/08/23/ad-replication-status-tool-is-live.aspx     joe Rating 4.00 out of 5

Active Directory 5th Edition

by @ Wednesday, August 8th, 2012. Filed under tech

Not that I need anything else on my plate at the moment with all of the busy-ness of summer but the chapter drafts for Active Directory 5E has hit my inbox and I am told need to be reviewed by August 20th. So good news on the progress on AD5E, boo on its timing. 😉 […]

Go Amazon!

by @ Monday, July 23rd, 2012. Filed under general

When I pulled up Amazon today to go check on the price of something I saw the following announcement… Go Amazon, Go Bezos! I loved this, especially the bolded part… Logic based assistance… Who knew? So, for people who’ve been with us as little as three years, we’re offering to pre-pay 95% of the cost […]

Running VMWARE ESXi 5 Server on a Mac Mini…

by @ Thursday, July 19th, 2012. Filed under tech

http://paraguin.com/2012/01/18/the-mac-mini-vmware-esxi-5-server-part-3-follow-up/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

Active Directory Wiki Part Deux

by @ Friday, July 13th, 2012. Filed under general

So previously (http://blog.joeware.net/2012/07/05/2540/) I mentioned the idea of an AD Wiki. I had quite a bit of feedback in the comments and offline through email on the idea with some strong points to use the Technet Wiki and some strong points on YES DO IT! No other options came up so it came down, for […]

Succumb to the guilty pleasure…

by @ Wednesday, July 11th, 2012. Filed under humour

Stripes (Extended Cut)… Ghostbusters… Groundhog Day… All on DVD… http://goo.gl/eE784     Rating 3.00 out of 5

It’s not a question that someone is going to mess up…

by @ Wednesday, July 11th, 2012. Filed under quotes

It’s not a question that someone is going to mess up in the GUI or not, it is a matter of how often, when, and how bad. The larger the organization, the more likely the answers to those questions will be answers you won’t like very much.   – Me in VMware vSphere 5 class […]

Feeling like you are a big bad ass are you???

by @ Tuesday, July 10th, 2012. Filed under general

Rating 4.33 out of 5

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