June 2006 - Posts
Now that I have my site working pretty well, I'm now going to do all of my blog posts over there (http://agramont.net/). I tried the cross-posting thing using the built-in features of Community Server (CS2 with ASP.NET 2), but it felt weird having the same content on two sites. From time to time, I'll post on this site a summary of the new content on my new site.
For now, I'm focusing the blog post on Hosting, ASP.NET, IIS, Hosted Exchange, Microsoft Provisioning System, and, Community Server..
New Blog URL: http://agramont.net/blogs/conrad/default.aspx
RSS Feed: http://agramont.net/blogs/conrad/rss.aspx
Summary of New Content:
The Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS) includes the Microsoft Provisioning Framework (MPF) which is core “executor” for all provisioning request. Now there is much documentation about MPS as part of the new SDK and solution documentation, but I thought I’d share some of my current thoughts around the engine itself.
Post has been moved to: http://agramont.net/blogs/conrad/archive/2006/06/16/MPFEnginePart1.aspx
A few weeks ago, I talked about the trend from Microsoft to create distinct sites (e.g. URL’s) that are outside of the standard Microsoft.com brand. Since then, I have found some more sites (not including the Event Websites).
To try and discover even more sites, I did a search using Google to find all sites with the typical Microsoft copyright ("2006 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved").
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http://www.longhornblogs.com/ This isn’t hosted by Microsoft either (I think), but it does hold some very interesting blogs from people using Windows Longhorn Server and Vista
And finally, here are the more “standard” non Microsoft.com sites:
There may be more, but I think this is a pretty good list of all of the various MS sites that are hanging out on the net. Perhaps the MS team can put an MS Web Directory to help showcase all of these various sites. I’m wondering why they decided to move more content outside of their main content group and standard web properties (Microsoft.com). Perhaps this makes the product groups (the typical owners of all these sites) more responsive as they own the delivery of the content. I’m sure there will be an exec that will come around and bring everything back into one of the major the web properties (Technet, MSDN, MS.com).
What's also interesting is that the majority of these sites run Community Server or are "Hosted by Telligent". Seems Telligent is doing a great job of staying close to the Microsoft product teams and delivering some cool sites!
Got anything else to share?
Crossposted from Conrad's Blog at http://agramont.net/blogs/conrad/default.aspx
Today is the first day that Agramont.net (http://agramont.net) is available on the Internet! I've had the domain for quite some time, but never really had the time to get it together. With thanks to the Community Server team (for their product), I now have the site up and running.
About the site:
- ASP.NET 2.0
- Community Server 2.0 for ASP.NET 2.0 (Express for now)
- Used website template (only pieces) purchased on TemplateMonster.com
- Ads are driven by Google Adsense
- Added the site to Google Via Google Sitemaps
- Traffic reporting is done via Google Analytics
- Shared hosting site via ASPnix (IIS6/SQL Server 2005 64-bit)
I plan to produce a fair amount of content for this site, but mostly through my blog. My blog is still currently posted on weblogs.asp.net, but I plan to use this site to most the majority of my blogs and do crossposting over to the weblogs.asp.net site.
From time to time, I write a bunch of protoype applications and tools and they just sit on my home development machine wasting away. So I plan to share a bunch of that on this site.
I have a few ideas on some other websites, so this is just a start at running my own public websites and content.
With that said, I'm still working with Service Provider/Hosters customers around the globe while working for Planet Technologies (http://www.go-planet.com/). With so much coming down the road from Microsoft (IIS 7, Exchange 12, Office Servers), I have a lot to learn and share with all of you.
The first Beta of the MPS SDK is available for download. Here is a link to the Microsoft Download:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/b/9/fb905eb4-d992-40e3-b0bc-cdb1996a1a10/Microsoft%20Provisioning%20System%20SDK-%20Beta%201.zip
I’m not sure what’s going on with the branding of this, but the following names all seem to point to the same thing:
- Microsoft Solution for Windows-Based Hosting for Applications 1.0
- Microsoft Provisioning System SDK
The rest of this post has been moved to: http://agramont.net/blogs/conrad/archive/2006/06/02/8.aspx
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