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I am working on it. I learned a things with that poll… 1. That software wasn’t designed to host a poll with multiple questions 2. I need to write better questions, some people seemed confused with the answers they gave. 3. Some people like to stuff the ballot box (didn’t think I would look at […]

http://blogs.technet.com/b/trustworthycomputing/archive/2013/01/03/designing-reliable-and-secure-cloud-solutions.aspx   at a basic level there are three main causes of cloud services failure: 1. Device and infrastructure failures 2. Software vulnerabilities 3. Human errors If we anticipate these failures will invariably happen – that indeed they are a constant threat – we need to design cloud services so that when something does go […]

FTR: I don’t hate virtual machines, I hate the incompetence that surrounds them. — joe (@joewaredotnet) March 13, 2013 Rating 4.50 out of 5

I wanted to share an analogy I wrote that was part of a response to a document effectively describing the cloning of a production AD environment that would live on the same physical network without a firewall. Visualize you have a locked and secured gun cabinet with loaded shotguns with hair triggers. But instead of […]

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 […]