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Microsoft ArcReady Event. Wednesday, August 20, 2008 FREE Event, so join up! I just hope it's not a marketing thing... Labels: development, event, free, houston, microsoft 0 comments
MMS2008 - Las Vegas, NV. Wednesday, May 07, 2008 This was my first event of this type, size and magnitude. When I read that the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) sold out for the first time and there was going to be about 4,000-5,000 people there, I didn't know what to think. Yeah, it's a lot, but seeing it live is a totally different story. It was a five day/four night event full of hands-on labs, sessions, q&a, and an expo in the Venetian for an IT summit and SecureVantage (SVT) was one of the sponsors. After six months with SVT, I've learned more about our product suite and now I can give you sky-high view of what our company does, "it's easy as 1-2-3" (our sales pitch): 1. Security Management Real-time alerting and health monitoring of Windows security events and group policy changes. -Windows Security Auditor: Alerting, operations and knowledge guidance. -Group Policy Auditor: auditing for changes and setting configurations. -Security Management Dashboard: centralized console for alerting. 2. Security Auditing Administration, archiving and reporting for Audit Collection Service (ACS). -Audit Collection Admin: Console to administer ACS. -Audit Collection Archiver: Solution for archiving and historical reporting. -Audit Collection Base Reports: Forensic and IT audit reporting, filter lookups and dynamic grouping. -Audit Collection SYSLOG Gateway: centralized syslog event collection and reporting with ACS. -Security Auditing Dashboard: Centralized security console for Security Management and auditing solutions. 3. Security Compliance Comprehensive regulatory knowledge and control mappings that deliver GRC-specific auditing and context sensitive alerting, knowledge guidance, operational views and security reporting. Solutions: Compliance Management Packs, Audit Collection Compliance Reporting. Libraries: CoBITs, DS484, FISMA, HIPAA, ISO 27002, PCI and SOX. -Security Compliance Dashboard: IT Auditor and Executive Portal for GRC Summary Analysis. Items in red are the items I've developed with the help of our team. It's awesome to hear customer feedback, inquiries and stories while I was at the expo, especially when it's about the product you've created. Here are the few pictures I took. Labels: event, las vegas, microsoft, mms, secure vantage, training, work 0 comments
Getting Involved Again. Tuesday, April 22, 2008 So I've been meaning to get back on the HDNUG and AgileHouston train again for a while. A series of recent events finally made me get up and get involved again.
Good fun. I'm ready, bring it. Oh yeah, I'll be attending MMS this year in Vegas along with the SecureVantage team! Labels: cougars, development, event, free, microsoft, secure vantage, uh, user group, work 0 comments
Heroes Happen {Here} Event. Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Last Thursday, I went to a free Microsoft Launch Event for Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008, called Heroes Happen Here. It was at the Westin Galleria, NOT to be mistaken by the Westin Oaks! Who knew two Westins existed in the Galleria mall? Crazy. Anyway, I took the developer track and VS2008/.NET 3.5 has a few things I want to dig my hands into: 1. LINQ - Down and dirty querying with a yet clean and refined look. Query almost anything: SQL, XML, DataSets, join on different datasources, forget all the for loops to get what you want...just LINQ it. 2. New features in AJAX with ASP.NET - Supposedly, you don't have to write ANY JavaScript. For breakfast and lunch, they hooked us up with some fancy bag that contained everything we needed for the day: water, orange juice, grapes, a sandwich, snickers, muffin, and some other stuff. There were hands-on-labs, but I didn't have time to get to them, but they're here to download. The main reason I came was to pick up a copy of each of these products, but as an added bonus, I found a copy of Vista Ultimate! I've been waiting to upgrade my XP Media Center machine at home. Labels: ajax, development, event, houston, linq, microsoft, visual studio 0 comments
Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Released! Wednesday, March 05, 2008 So here goes a big update to the last post on Getting Started With Silverlight, Silverlight 2 Beta 1 has been released! Here are the direct links as of today: Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 runtime Silverlight tools beta 1 for VS 2008 Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 1 Expression Studio 2.5 Preview Now, I'm off to go play with ScottGu's tutorials (the other). Hopefully, the Beta 1 has what I want to prepare for MMS 2008. Also, for all those interested in knowing if Silverlight is going to be ported to mobile devices: the answer is yes, Nokia being the first! Unfortunately, it will only be version 1.0. Labels: development, microsoft, secure vantage, silverlight, visual studio 0 comments
Getting Started with Silverlight. Tuesday, February 26, 2008 There's a ton of stuff out there that just makes my head go crazy. If you want to get started, here's the quick run down of problems I ran into and what I did to get things up and running. Version Clarification
*Pretend Blend v1 and Silverlight 1.0 never existed. Get all the lastest stuff, believe me. You'll be MUCH happier. I'm getting started with the Creating a Clock with Silverlight tutorial. I'm running Silverlight 1.1 Alpha, Visual Studio 2008 (with Resharper 3.0), Expression Blend 2 December Preview, and the Silverlight Tools Alpha for VS2008 all on a Vista Business Edition machine. READY-SET-GO. Update: This is a Silverlight example, but the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 has not been released yet (along with the tools for VS2008) that makes me sad, =(. Still, it is an awesome tutorial to create a Digg client application from Scott Guthrie. "The entire application is implemented in about 35 lines of C# code and 75 lines of XAML page/user-control markup" -ScottGu <-- WOW. Labels: development, microsoft, secure vantage, silverlight, visual studio 0 comments
Learning NHibernate by Example (Small). Friday, January 18, 2008 So I started a new project a couple weeks back and I'm going to put off separating the common features into a "CommonProject" until later. I've run into a few tedious steps over and over again, that I already knew NHibernate would help me resolve quickly and easily. Once this is complete, I'll take a look to see what needs to be done. I like what I see already in NHibernate; I'm just not too happy about support for NHibernate.org and their community, or lack thereof. I downloaded a sample, but it's not using the most up-to-date version, which is currently 1.2.1GA. I have a working version of it. If you want it, let me know. (By the way, does anyone know what the "GA" in 1.2.1GA means?) My environment: Microsoft SQL 2005 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (ReSharper 3.0.2) NHibernate 1.2.1GA Labels: development, microsoft, nhibernate, visual studio, work 3 comments
First Week on the Job. Thursday, November 15, 2007 Everyone has been asking, "Tom, so what do you do now?" and I have been giving generic answers like: "creating tools to drive our business" and "security, policy, and operation solutions" and those answers suck. Here goes an attempt, with links and product names... One of our products we provide solutions for is Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager, aka "SCCM." "System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is the next version of Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003. Configuration Manager 2007 contributes to a more effective IT department by enabling secure and scalable operating system and application deployment and desired configuration management, enhancing system security, and providing comprehensive asset management of servers, desktops, and mobile devices." Inside this product, is a feature called Desired Configuration Manager, aka "DCM." "Desired Configuration Management (DCM) is a feature in System Center Configuration Manager. With DCM, utilize Microsoft and third party best practice configuration knowledge to improve configuration definition and maintenance. Find the software you need to define configurations for your Microsoft and third party applications with Configuration Manager 2007." So my role in all this is to help create the DCM Packs. If you see any vendor link with Secure Vantage"...that's us! So now that I have explained what I work with, here is what I do. 1) Creating tools and solutions to help drive the business. (I can't think of anything else to say...) 2) Setup internal environment and processes to control source code. 3) Learning Powershell. Yes, it is part of the job...learning. Labels: dcm, microsoft, sccm, secure vantage, work 2 comments
Where's Wachovia? Thursday, August 09, 2007
I want to believe Virtual Earth because I'd just have to walk a few blocks, but Google right. The have the location right in front of the building entrance! Labels: dailywtf, google, maps, microsoft 0 comments
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