CISPA passed by the House of Representatives yesterday.

Brian — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:27:17 +0000

## Snip from Wikipedia
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, expressed opposition to the bill stating, “[It] is threatening the rights of people in America, and effectively rights everywhere, because what happens in America tends to affect people all over the world. Even though the Sopa and Pipa acts were stopped by huge public outcry, it’s staggering how quickly the US government has come back with a new, different, threat to the rights of its citizens.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_Protection_Act

DMARC/DKIM is coming. You’re all gonna have to learn about encryption.

Brian — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:03:58 +0000

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Told ya.
Here it comes, check this out. If you work in the technology field, you need to read this:
http://dmarc.org/

Ridiculous, Unenforceable Email Disclaimers

Brian — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:05:46 +0000

I’m a little sick of seeing these wastes of time and bandwidth, and wanted to fill you all in. Ever seen one of these at the bottom of an email?
Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer.
This is not legally binding, and basically means nothing. Much like the Esq. at the end of a lawyer’s name. If the dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited, then why did you send it through something as insecure as email? Maybe you should read a book about PKI, and get yourself a user certificate.
Don’t try and push your technological shortcomings onto me, and make *me* responsible for your lack of ability to read a book, and secure your communications. Just sayin.

Come to Twin Cities TechPulse!

Brian — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:42:39 +0000

Registration just opened for the annual Twin Cities TechPulse event www.tctechpulse.com. Please register as soon as possible as it will fill quickly and there are limited spots available. I know you would enjoy this free event and would come away with some great information. This year if you bring a guest(s) who has never been before, we will give you an extra raffle ticket for each attendee to win one of the great prizes we will be giving away (iPads, Xbox, Laptops, LCD TVs, etc.) Just remember to have them register as a guest of SCC (Brian Hershey).

The event is April 17th in St Paul. It’s an educational event with break-out sessions covering different technology & business subjects along with a great keynote speaker, free breakfast & lunch and over $25,000 in prize giveaways.

Using msdeploy to move websites from IIS6 to IIS7

Brian — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:12:33 +0000

I recently needed to migrate 7 different websites, with content, from IIS6 to IIS7.
Rather than copy everything by hand, and re-setup all the site bindings, and data sources, I decided to try using msdeploy, from http://www.iis.net

From the old server running IIS6, I ran this command first:
msdeploy -verb:getDependencies -source:webserver60
This displays all site dependencies for the IIS6 server. You need to make sure that all dependencies are installed on the new destination server. **

After insuring that all dependencies were installed, I issued this command from the new IIS7 server, to see what would happen without *actually* changing anything:
msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webserver60,computerName='MACHINENAME',authType='NTLM',userName='MACHINENAME\administrator' ,password='password' -dest:auto -whatif > msdeploysync.log

Then, to actually fire the command, and migrate the websites, I ran this:
msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webserver60,computerName='MACHINENAME',authType='NTLM',userName='MACHINENAME\administrator' ,password='password' -dest:auto > msdeploysync.log

YMMV, I’ll try to help if you get stuck. Let me know how it goes.

** Also, here’s the link I used to install ASP.Net 1.1 on Windows Server 2008. Thanks, Bill. You rock.
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/06/02/installing-asp-net-1-1-with-iis7-on-vista-and-windows-2008.aspx