Another fine podcast for IT professionals found here at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk enterprise 2.0 with Ross Mayfield, social networking extraordinaire and Chairman, President, and co-founder of Socialtext. Find Ross' blog at ross.typepad.com and SocialText's offerings at Socialtext.com. In the news, possible privacy issues with the IE8 beta phoning home, Dell's pushing into the VM space with new blade servers and storage, the DOJ is questioning the Google-Yahoo ad deal, HP's building an OS of their own, and the LHC gets hacked. Apple's new BSOD causing iTunes 8 gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Yammer and the benefits and drawbacks of micro-blogging in the enterprise, and "The Weekly Tech Tip" talks about Core Config, a new utility for Windows Server 2008 Server Core configuration. Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
MS defends IE 'phone home' feature, clarifies privacy policy (InfoWorld)
Dell unwraps products designed for virtualization (InfoWorld)
Sandy Litvack, a dogged trustbuster in pursuit of Google (CNet)
Hackers deface LHC site, came close to turning off particle detector (ZDNet)
iTunes 8 causes Windows Vista problems (ZDNet)
TechCrunch50: Yammer Wins TechCrunch50 (PC Magazine)
Core Config Utility (Codeplex) We're not just a podcast, check out our ramblings about random thoughts on the social sites twitter.com/cstechcast and friendfeed.com/cstechcast. We always welcome your feedback, so hit the voicemail, feedback page, or blog. All are available at CSTechcast.com. Thanks for listening. Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=42 - Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)
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A new interview, tech news, and insight from the podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk about smartphone and mobile device security with Dan Dearing, Vice President of marketing at Trust Digital. Find out more about Trust Digital at trustdigital.com. In the news, we discuss a kaleidoscope of a patch from Microsoft, social networking for G Men, Dell shutting down factories of their once high-flying made-to-order operations, a six-core server chip from Intel, and a recall of overheating Sony Vaio laptops. Comcast's FCC countersuit gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", Chrome, Firefox, and IE8 start up the browser wars once again when we take "A Closer Look", and "The Weekly Tech Tip" delves into the NETSH command.
Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
Upcoming Microsoft patch lineup could be 'massive,' says researcher (ComputerWorld)
CIA, FBI push 'Facebook for spies' (CNN)
Dell Plans to Sell Factories In Effort to Cut Costs (Wall Street Journal)
Intel ready to announce six-core chip (CNet)
Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops (ZDNet)
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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=41
- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)
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No need to wait in line for our newest podcast; all the week's tech news and insight for IT Pros is here at CSTechcast.com. We explore the latest in delivering applications to remote and global networks with Zach Seils, author of Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services . This week, Microsoft lobs another offer at Yahoo, DNS gets patched across all vendors, NVidia slowly reveals more about their overheating laptop chips, cloud apps have downtime woes, SQL Server will be out in August, and a new Microsoft push for software plus services. Overreacting tech bloggers make "The Worst tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the new Microsoft Certified Master program, and "The Weekly Tech Tip" covers WSUS troubleshooting. Links to stories discussed during the show: Yahoo Rejects Joint Microsoft/Icahn Deal But Open To $33 Per Share All-Microsoft Sale (Search Engine Land)
Patch domain name servers now (ComputerWorld)
Report: NVIDIA issues cover all G84 and G86 GPUs (ZDNet)
Rackspace Downtime: A Reminder That All Are Vulnerable (TechCrunchIT)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Due in August (eWeek)
Oracle, Salesforce.com Jump on iPhone Bandwagon (eWeek)
Microsoft still pushing Vista compatibility story (CNet)
iPhone 3G disaster (Scobleizer's Recent Qik Videos)
Microsoft Certified Master Program (Microsoft)
More on the Certified Master programs from me, Per, the program owner... (Technet Blogs)
Troubleshooting WSUS downloads (Technet Blogs) Thanks for listening and give Dana a warm welcome. She will be helping us out with the news and shaking up the format a bit. We hope you like her as much as we do. Don't forget our give away. Enter at CSTechcast.com for your chance to win and take our money in the form of an Amazon.com gift certificate. Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=33 - Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)
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This week's podcast at cstechcast.com concentrates on technology trends that matter to IT pros. We have an extended interview with long time industry expert, PC Magazine and MarketWatch columnist, and Cranky Geeks host John C. Dvorak where we discuss Google's platform as a service, Dell's shrinking relevance, and Microsoft's apparent soft opening for Windows Server 2008. Find John C. Dvorak at dvorak.org/blog. The news brings us Gartner's top disruptive technology trends that may mean upgrades to your internal apps for multi-core and a further move towards mashup development, Gartner also stirs the pot by declaring that Windows is collapsing in the face of code bloat and web apps, and we also put forth a whole series of security updates from Oracle, Adobe, and post warning about malware on USB keys from HP that hold software for Proliant servers. Gartner's report on the untenable state of Windows is declared "The Worst Tech Move of the Week". We also give away Quest Software's Change Director for SQL Server to a lucky listener. 
Links to stories discussed during the show: Gartner: Multicore, Clouds, Social Nets Top Disruptive List (PC World)
Google Hosts Web Applications By Outside Software Developers (Wall Street Journal)
Windows is 'collapsing,' Gartner analysts warn (ComputerWorld)
Oracle Warns of Critical DB Server Vulnerabilities (eWeek)
Adobe Issues Critical Flash Player Update (eWeek)
HP ships USB sticks with malware (C|Net News.com)
What happened at Dell? (MarketWatch) We dropped a couple regular segments this week to bring you all the goodness of the Dvorak interview, but we will be back with those segments next week, including an update from the Microsoft MVP summit. After our interview with John C. Dvorak this week, we were mentioned on Dvorak's Tech 5 podcast Thursday, April 10th, 2008 entitled "Yahoo and Google both Freaked", available at tech5.podshow.com, on the discussion we had about the lack of real press and marketing surrounding the release of Windows Server 2008. We are expecting a full blown article from Dvorak based on our discussion of the subject soon. Thank you to Quest Software for providing valuable software to our listeners. Visit quest.com for information on their full suite of management products for applications, databases, and Windows. Tell your friends to visit cstechcast.com. Thanks. Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=20 - Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)
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CStechcast.com brings you the expertise of Michael Stiefel, a Microsoft MVP in Connected Systems Development, to explain the concepts behind Software as a Service (SaaS). Michael can be found at reliablesoftware.com. News on deck: Windows Vista takes price cuts and more lumps from Dell, Google says to Microsoft "Do you want a piece of me?" and releases Google Sites, sliding skills found in the security field, and the Cobra language goes open source. In our segments; Network Solutions steals our domain so we can't register "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take a trip down memory lane with "This Month in Tech History", and we talk about SQL Server 2005 and the BUILTIN\administrators group in the "Weekly Tech Tip".
Links to the stories discussed in our podcast:
Microsoft Cuts Vista Prices to Urge Upgrades
Dell Pointed Out Vista Mistakes, Internal Documents Show
Google Takes Aim at SharePoint
IT Security Skills Falling Short
Cobra Language Slithers into Open Source
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- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)
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After a problem with the local telco, we are back up with our latest at cstechcast.com. We've got some humor and some know how in this episode. A nice balance if I do say so myself. This week we chat with Claudia Baca, author of "Project Management for Mere Mortals". Find her at the web site www.claudiambaca.com, where you will find additional information including white papers and case studies. Also, check out the video series Project Management for Mere Mortals(R) (Video LiveLessons). In the news; a new Firefox vulnerability, Dell and Sun team up, Office 2008 for the Mac, and Hitachi drops 1.8 inch and smaller hard drive lines. Plus, "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", "Meet your Local User Group", "The Tech News Flash Forward", and "The Weekly Tech Tip".
Show Notes
Links to the stories discussed in our podcast:
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_vs_facebook/scoble_unmasked_as_facebook_digibomber.html
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/11/28/still-having-issues-post-office-2003-sp3.aspx
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUST22530420080104
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/15941/
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/Dell-to-Offer-Suns-Solaris-OpenSolaris-in-Servers/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140997-page,1/article.html
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205208536&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
http://blogs.technet.com/tarpara/archive/2008/01/02/office-2003-sp3-legacy-file-formats-disabled.aspx
A quick update on the Office 2003 service pack 3 issue with blocked files. Microsoft is backing down on it's overarching file blocking stance of older files as detailed in this article: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Backs-Down-over-Office-2003-SP3-File-Blocking/. Find a tersely worded explanation of of why the file blocking was put in place at this Technet blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/tarpara/archive/2008/01/07/office-2003-sp3-the-facts-and-fiction.aspx.
Featured User Group
Our featured user group is the Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group. They focus on Microsoft SQL Server technology and the group is headed by SQL MVP and CS Techcast member Eric Johnson. Come on out and get involved. Find them at springssql.org.
As always, leave your comments at this blog post and check back every week for a new episode.
- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)
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