I have added a new site to the technology network. The site will focus on Windows 8 which will be the next version of Windows after Windows 7. (read more)

Update: August 9TH, 2009 My access to download was restored by Matt. I don’t know why it took so long to resolve this issue, but, I am glad it is over. I will continue to do business with them in the future. I have also terminated the dispute I had at Paypal. It took a [...] (read more)

I just opened 2 new forum communities. I haven’t opened any new forums in a while and thought I’d add a couple new sites to the network. The first community to join the network is Illinois Forum. It is a community for people that live in Illinois, people planning to move to Illinois or people [...] (read more)

I recently opened, yesterday in fact, a new forum for Windows Server 2008 help, support and discussions. Once Windows Server 2008 is released to the public the new forum will be the place to discuss anything related to the new version of Windows Server. When Windows Server 2008 is adopted by more people I will [...] (read more)

I recently installed Windows Server 2008 on one of my servers. I was part of the beta test and have installed all the beta versions of Windows 2008 although they were used for bug reporting and as a learning tool.The server is a test bed for my live servers so this is the final task before I upgrade all my servers to Windows Server 2008. (read more)

I know this is an older exploit, but, my servers are still getting scanned for the vulnerability. It's always better safe than sorry when dealing with anything that opens your Windows server up to an attack and possible compromise. The DCOM exploits present in Windows Server 2003, referenced in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-039 and CERT Advisory CA-2003-19, are also present in the RPC over HTTP interface. This interface is not installed by default, but can be added using the Add / Remove Programs control panel applet. (read more)

If you read Saving Site Configuration to File you'll also want to know how to load that file back into your Windows Server running IIS. You can use the file to duplicate the site configuration on a development Windows server. Use it when you move to another Windows server. You can even use it to load a new website so you don't have to configure PHP or any other extensions or loadable modules. Keep in mind if you do want to load a new website to duplicate the configuration you'll have to change the host headers and IP address assigned to the new site in Windows Server IIS manager. (read more)

A network is two or more computers linked together in order to share data. From a security standpoint, the problem with networks is that unauthorized individuals might also be able to access that data. Network security is a term that encompasses your overall system for keeping your network as impenetrable as possible, be it hardware, software, or company policies. (read more)

Search engine optimization is the art and science of making web pages appear attractive to the search engines. The better optimized a website is, the higher the ranking it will receive from a search engines web crawlers, the higher its ranking the more traffic your website will have, the more traffic your website has the more profit your website will generate. The key is good internet search engine optimization. (read more)

From time to time it is a good idea to save the site meta data (configuration) to a file. I do this every time I make a change to the site configuration. It's also good to have a backup in case something bad happens to the server. (read more)