The power of punctuation...

An English professor wrote the words:
"A woman without her man is nothing"
on the chalkboard and asked his students
to punctuate it correctly.

All of the males in the class wrote:
"A woman, without her man, is nothing".

All the females wrote:
"A woman, without her, man is nothing".


Punctuation is extremely powerfull ! ! !

Mistakes when configuring a virtual clients environment

I came across some interesting tips on things to consider in a virtualized environment by Greg Shields (Consultant and Microsoft MVP).
They are non-issues (or settled issues) on physical environments and you might overlook them when making the transition to virtual machines.

Here's a summary to get you interested:

*) Screensavers
*) Managing from the console
*) AV on VM disk files
*) Power options
*) Cluster Failback
*) RAM availability
*) Backup for CSV
*) Number of processors

Here are the links to the actual articles:

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid94_gci1365989_mem1,00.html
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid94_gci1372408_mem1,00.html

You only think you know...

*\ Quote from Donald Rumsfeld:

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.

Microsoft Security Essentials - Free Anti-Virus for genuine Windows users ! ! !

For all you guys/girls that didn’t know : You can download Microsoft Security Essentials for FREE and use it if you are a genuine Windows user!

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

Microsoft Security Essentials is an anti-malware service that helps protect consumers against viruses, spyware and other malware.


I've been participating in the beta-program of the Microsoft Security Essentials product and I must say that it is a very easy-to-use application, but also quite good in it's job!

To download it, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

You can specify the language, operating system and bits-version (x86 and x64) at the download page.

Have fun!!

Riddle me this

A treasure born of sorrow,
nurtured by time and every tomorrow.
It grows with age,
more precious then gold.
Cannot be bought
and not to be sold.
It comes to those
whether peasant or lord...
Who knows where to find
life's humble reward.


*** THE ANSWER IS: " WISDOM " ***

BUILT-IN\Administrators vs. Domain Admins

A question I've recieved from a colleague this week which a could not give a straight anwser to: What's the difference between BUITL-IN\Administrators and Domain Admins?

Ok... after some intense googling:

If you add a user to the Built-In Administrators group on a domain controller, that user becomes
an administrator on all domain controllers in your domain, and by extension a Domain Admininstrator.

The difference between making a user a member of Administrators on a Domain Controller vs making them member of the Domain Admins Security Group is an
implementation detail.

Let's take an example:
Domain Admins are members of the local Administrators group on each domain-joined workstation and member server, where BUILTIN\Administrators are not and BUILTIN\Administrators is a Domain Local group whereas
Domain Admins is a global group. So making a user a Domain Admin will automatically grant the user certain rights to domain-joined
workstations and servers where BUILTIN\Administrators does not...but at the end of the day a member of BUILTIN\Administrators on a DC still
has the effective rights of a Domain Admin, and so a determined user could figure out how to grant themselves
whatever rights they don't have by default on workstations/member servers. This is a security issue not to take for granted!

From a security perspective, BUILTIN\Administrators membership should be treated as the security equivalent of
Domain Admins, even though there are certain implementation details that may differ.

As writen before:
BUILTIN\Administrators on a Domain Controller still has the effective rights of a Domain Admin, and so a determined user could figure out how to grant themselves whatever rights they don't have by default on workstations/member servers.

So what's the point of Microsoft using BUILTIN\Administrators in Domain Controllers instead of just using the Domain Admins?
Backwards compatibility with pre-Active Directory NOS's, same as the rest of the BUILTIN objects. It's basicaly a legacy feature which Microsoft has not yet decided to remove...

Mere words can not describe...

I searched among the card displays,
To see if I could find,
A little something that would say
Just what was on my mind.

However there was not a one,
That captured it just right,
For no one else can understand
Just what I'd like to write.

I even find it difficult
To try to write it down,
For how do I portray to you,
The love that I have known?

I close my eyes and what I see,
Is someone I adore;
A person who is beautiful,
Right down into their soul.

Mere words cannot describe
The many qualities you show,
The love and caring nature that
You share with those who know.

Your kind and gentle temperament,
Your sweet angelic smile,
Your softly spoken sentiments,
That reach across the miles.

Your smile and laugh that sparkle with
The softness of your sighs,
The way your face lights up a room ...
That twinkle in your eye.

The loving gestures through the years,
That quickly come to mind,
For always you've a gentle word
To calm and soothe I find.

I struggle and I search to try
To find some words anew ...
And yet I cannot capture
All the things that make you you.

I shall therefore, be satisfied
That you must simply know,
Just how I feel about you,
For with words I cannot show.