First day of Microsoft MVP Summit

Well, I managed to fly into Seattle, drop by bags off at my hotel and make it over to the Microsoft Campus. The buses were horribly disorganized. Meet tons of folks and the regional dinner was fun once we finally made it over there. Got to meet Suzanna Moran finally and to chat with Susan Bradley face to face. Looking forward to catching up with some other folks and perhaps getting to know a few more MVP's.
- Ed

Heading up to Microsoft for the MVP Summit

I will be on a flight tomorrow to Seattle. Looking forward to the visit to the Microsoft campus (it will be my first) and to meeting some other MVP's also. I'll try and post while I am up there for the week but it might be a little tough given the schedule they have handed out so far.
- Ed

Cisco releases new products for protection against network threats

Cisco announced two new products today. They fall under the suite of the Cisco Self-Defending Network. They are the Cisco Incident Control System (ICS) and the Distributed Threat Mitigation for Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). Seems like Cisco really likes the folks over at Trend Micro who Cisco uses for their Network Admission Control (NAC) product line. It is going to be very interesting to see how Microsoft reacts since they have their Network Access Protection (NAP) initative as well. Cisco seems to be cranking out the product lines in this area. It doesn't appear that Microsoft is moving as fast on this front and I am not really sure why. They certainly have the ability to own a good portion of this market if they so desired, especially in the corporate enterprise market.
- Ed

Feds to enforce FCC VoIP 911 regulation

CNET News.com is running an interesting article about the FCC's current plan to enforce VoIP providers compliance with their 911 services requirement. I actually don't have a huge issue with the FCC doing this. There are some serious hurtles to overcome for universal VoIP and 911 emergency services is one of them.
- Ed

Microsoft's Netsh overview

It seems that most Microsoft networking reference material I see out there still has folks using basics older tools for working on networking related issues for the newer Microsoft OS's. One that folks are going to have to start adding to their toolkit is Netsh which is VERY robust and very well supported for scripting. Given that fact that this is basically the only way you are going to be able to set IPv6 configuration information I think it is important for folks to start taking a look at it earlier rather then later.
- Ed