FIM R2 Book available for Pre-Order

Posted by Kent in FIM on May 17, 2012

I am getting really close to finalize my FIM R2 Book! It can now be pre-ordered from http://aka.ms/FIMR2Book. Many thanks to everyone at Pack Publishing, great job!

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TechDays in Sweden

Posted by Kent in Personal Thoughts on April 24, 2012

Today TechDays starts in Sweden. Great stuff covering Nextperience will be presented. I will not make any presentations this year but many of my MEET friends will.

Just look at the list below and realize many of them will be available for sessions and discussions at TechDays in Örebro in next few days. Don’t miss it!

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UAG Security Bulletin MS12-026

Posted by Kent in UAG on April 11, 2012

Today Microsoft released a Security Bulletin for UAG, this Bulletin is rated Important. As with all other UAG updates, these packages are not pushed out via Windows Update/Microsoft Update or any of the other automated patching mechanisms, this is because of the special order that needs to be followed for array deployments (array manager first and then rest of the nodes). Following are the relevant links:

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FIM 2010 Update Rollup 2

Posted by Kent in FIM on February 28, 2012

FIM 2010 Update Rollup 2 will go live on Microsoft Update  today, February 28 at 10 am Pacific time. In addition to including all servicing changes made since RTM, this rollup:

  • Adds support for the new Extensible Connectivity Management Agent 2.0 (ECMA 2) framework
  • Addresses a possible performance issue for installations with many dynamic groups or criteria-based sets whose membership criteria include several conditions
  • Reverts a change in the previous hotfix release that treated SQL wildcard characters as literals
  • Addresses a number of other issues.

Especially interesting is the reappearing support for wildcards. Hotfix rollup 2520954 removed support for using the following characters as SQL wildcard characters in queries, in dynamic group filters, and in set filters:

  • Underscore (_)
  • Percent (%)
  • Opening bracket ([)

The functionality was used by many of my customers preventing them from updating their FIM. This hotfix reverts the earlier change.

For details, see KB2635086

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Microsoft Showcase – UAG

Posted by Kent in UAG on January 23, 2012

Magnus Lindkvist, Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft Sweden and I talk (in Swedish) about UAG in this Microsoft Showcase movie.

If you have trouble watching the Silverlight movie below try this WMV version.


Hopefully more movies will published in the future, I will also try to convince MS that English subtitles would be nice to have, or maybe I will find time to record some in English.

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Isaac Asimov – Foundation Universe

Posted by Kent in Personal Thoughts on January 7, 2012

One of my favorite writers is Isaac Asimov. I am at the moment in the process of re-reading the complete series of books included in the Foundation Universe series (15 books). I am reading them in the order as suggested by Asimov himself before he passed away.

For thoose of you that do not know who Asimov is, or what the Foundation series  are. I would like to point out the fact that the Foundation series was awarded the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series in 1966 in competition with the well known Lord of the Rings series written by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Below is a list of the books and the order to read them. The table contains the order no, the year the book was published, the name of the book and some comments.

1 1982 The Complete Robot Collection of thirty-one robot short stories written between 1939 and 1977.
2 1954 The Caves of Steel This is the first of the robot novels.
3 1957 The Naked Sun The second robot novel.
4 1983 The Robots of Dawn The third robot novel. Hugo Award nominee, 1984. Locus Award nominee, 1984
5 1985 Robots and Empire The fourth robot novel. Locus Award nominee, 1986
6 1951 The Stars, Like Dust This is the first of the Empire novels.
7 1952 The Currents of Space The second Empire novel.
8 1950 Pebble in the Sky The third Empire novel, however, it was Asimov’s first full novel to be published.
9 1988 Prelude to Foundation This is the first Foundation novel. Locus Award nominee, 1989
10 1993 Forward the Foundation The second Foundation novel (although it was the last written by Asimov himself).
11 1951 Foundation The third Foundation novel. Actually, it is a collection of four stories, originally published between 1942 and 1944, plus an introductory section written for the book in 1949. Published, slightly abridged, as part of an Ace Double paperback, D-110, with the title “The 1000-Year Plan”, in 1955.
12 1952 Foundation and Empire The fourth Foundation novel, made up of two stories, originally published in 1945. Published with the title ‘The Man Who Upset the Universe’ as a 35c Ace paperback, D-125, in about 1952.
13 1953 Second Foundation The fifth Foundation novel, made up of two stories, originally published in 1948 and 1949.
14 1982 Foundation’s Edge The sixth Foundation novel. Nebula Award nominee, 1982. Hugo Award winner, 1983. Locus Award winner, 1983
15 1986 Foundation and Earth The seventh Foundation novel. Locus Award nominee, 1987

Hope you will enjoy reading this series as much as I am.

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