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Best wishes for 2021!

Thank you! And best wishes for 2021!

Thank you
… for supporting me
… for supporting us
… for not giving up
… for keeping a positive spirit
… for the constructive critics
… for the creative solutions
… finding and creating opportunities
… for making things possible
… for keeping us at the edge
… for being direct, open and honest

because that allows us to evolve, to develop, to grow, to learn and to become better

despite difficult times.

I wish each of you and your family the best for 2021,

with a lot of fun, joy and success, a lot of exciting new things…

And sometimes just a bit of luck.

Looking forward to work with you for another exciting year… And beyond.

Because your support keeps me sharp.

Looking forward to the first opportunity to meet, physically, in person and to catch up all the things we missed.

And of course, a good health.
Keep safe and secure!

Best wishes for 2021!

Dank je wel! En beste wensen voor 2021! (NL)

Dank je
… om mij te steunen
… om ons te steunen
… om het niet op te geven
… om een positieve mindset te behouden
… voor de constructieve kritiek
… voor de creatieve oplossingen
… om kansen te vinden en te creëren
… om dingen mogelijk te maken
… om ons scherp en alert te houden
… omdat je direct, open en eerlijk bent

omdat dat ons in staat stelt om te evolueren, ons te ontwikkelen, te groeien, te leren en beter te worden

ondanks moeilijke tijden.

Ik wens ieder van jullie en je gezin het beste voor 2021,

met veel plezier, vreugde en succes, veel spannende nieuwe dingen …

En soms gewoon een beetje geluk.

Ik kijk er naar uit om weer met je samen te werken voor nog een spannend jaar … en daarna.

Zonder jouw steun kan ik mijn ding niet doen… .

Ik kijk uit naar de eerste gelegenheid om elkaar fysiek en persoonlijk te ontmoeten en om alle dingen die we hebben gemist in te halen.

En natuurlijk een goede gezondheid.
Hou het veilig en goed beveiligd!

Please be aware of EUDT. BE unethical and dirty domain sales tricks (EN version)

fraudwarning

For the last 2 months I have been receiving some fraudulent, unethical and threatening mails from a company named “European Domains & Trademarks”, with the e-mail domain EUDT.BE, registered company name “Domeinnaam Register”.

The company is linked to: http://www.domeinnaamregister.com/ en http://www.nederlandsdomeinregister.nl/
In the Netherlands the company is registered as KVK: 64626679 and VAT: NL201158802B01. (as published on their website, the commerce register and DNS registrar).

The company is making false claims and is using unethical practices, and scaring people to extort money and scamming people into ridiculous expensive and fraudulent contracts.

The official registration owner of this URL and company is a Dutch company that is a very well known for very bad scamming practices.
And also the Belgian domain registration authority is warning for this company:
https://www.dnsbelgium.be/en/news/watch-out-domain-name-offers-domeinnaamregistercom

This is not their first warning, it already was reported in 2013 and 2016 (see below).

Also in the Netherlands, this organization is known and has been reported for the same malpractices before, like:

What it is about?

See full text at end of this post.

In short, he company contacts people, entrepreneurs, company owners pretending that they received a request to register a domain name (like company.nl) similar to the company domain you already registered (like company.com) and that they are legally forced to contact you to offer the first registration.

Next they say that they are obliged to register and protect the domain name for 10 year for €19.75 (ex VAT!) per year. And you need to pay this in one shot.

And a lot more bullshit in the mail…

What should you do?

  • DO NOT react to the mail, and ignore the mail,
  • before deleting the mail: report these practices to the authorities (eg Ministry of Economic Affairs)

If you really want that domain

  • DO NOT react to the mail, ignore the mail, delete the mail
  • contact your favorite, official and trusted registrar and by the domain via the regular / official channel

Why is this bullshit?

Please be aware that

  • domain registration is on a “first come, first serve” basis (unless it’s a malicious registration to harm a target company)
  • domains like .BE,  .NL, EU… cost about €6, €8, … 12 EUR per year.
  • Some registrars offer decent discounts, so it can be even cheaper.
  • You can renew domains YEARLY, no need to pay 10 years upfront.

See also

(BE-NL) Verkooptrucs met domeinnamen (*) (Credits: Dries Van Giel op 15 juni 2018)

More information

Credits: Dries Van Giel (*)

Belgium

Official warnings by DNS.BE

Official registrars

Warnings from official domain registrars and site hosters (no strings attached!)

Log a complaint at

If you’re already been caught by these #holes, you can register a complaint at: https://meldpunt.belgie.be/meldpunt/nl/welkommeldpunt.belgie.be

Netherlands

Full text (NL)

(Source: Happywebsites)

Geachte heer/mevrouw ,

Recent hebben wij telefonisch contact met u op proberen te nemen. Dit is tot op heden nog niet gelukt. We sturen u dus een email met daarin informatie over het volgende:
We hebben een aanvraag binnen gekregen om de website http://www.questforsecurity.eu te laten registreren. We zien in ons systeem dat u de eigenaar bent van http://www.questforsecurity.be. Helaas kan dit voor u in de toekomst verstrekkende gevolgen hebben. We zijn daarom dus wettelijk verplicht om contact met u op te nemen om u het eerste registratierecht te bieden. Dit houdt in dat wij de aanvraag van de derde partij afwijzen en de website:

http://www.questforsecurity.eu

Na een akkoord zullen doorlinken naar:

http://www.questforsecurity.be

Het komt er op neer dat u de eerste optie op de domeinnaam krijgt, dit om eventuele problemen in de toekomst te voorkomen. De aanvraag is gedaan vanuit de regio Antwerpen.
Doorgaans zijn wij verplicht om de domeinnaam voor 10 jaar vast te leggen en te beschermen. De jaarlijkse prijs voor de .EU extensie is € 19,75 per jaar. Dit betekent dus een eenmalig bedrag van €197,50. Wanneer de doorlink voltooid is, zal al het verkeer wat naar de .EU extensie gaat, automatisch op uw .BE extensie terecht komen. De verwerking hiervan duurt maximaal 24 uur. Deze domeinnaam is dan wereldwijd bereikbaar. De derde partij wordt afgewezen en deze kan niks met uw domeinnaam doen.
Overige informatie:

U ontvangt een eenmalige factuur van €197,50 exclusief BTW voor een looptijd van 10 jaar.

Na een jaar kan het ten alle tijden geannuleerd worden. U krijgt dan het resterende aantal jaren op uw rekening teruggestort.

Indien u hiermee akkoord gaat, stuur dan binnen 24 uur na ontvangen van deze email een akkoord per mail naar met daarin uw naam, en factuurgegevens naar; bart@eudt.be
Hierop volgend gaan wij de derde partij afwijzen en de doorlink in orde maken. U krijgt dezelfde dag nog alles per mail toegestuurd met alle informatie die u nodig heeft.

Met vriendelijke groeten,

Bart Mulder
European Domains & Trademarks
http://www.eudt.be
bart@eudt.be

And also


Reynaud Laurent
European Domains & Trademarks
http://www.eudt.be
reynaud.laurent@eudt.be

Better be smart.
Be safe.

And I hope these ### will be stopped sooner than later.

Note-to-self: free MS Press eBooks on Microsoft Virtual academy

Looking for some Azure reference material, planning for Azure certification exams, …? Have a look at the eBooks section on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)…
Short url: http://aka.ms/freemspress

It has a quite interesting collection of free eBooks you can download…

 

And while you’re there, also check the learning stuff for identity:

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/Studies/SearchResult.aspx?q=identity

And bookmark this link for security related learning material:

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/Studies/SearchResult.aspx?q=security

 

Happy learning!

 

Note to self: Get your free 25GB Skydrive

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/04/23/the-next-chapter-for-skydrive-personal-cloud-storage-for-windows-available-anywhere.aspx

“/../ We know that many of you signed up for a service that offered 25GB, and some are already using more than 7GB of storage. So, starting today, for a limited time, any registered SkyDrive user *who has uploaded files to SkyDrive* as of April 22nd can opt in to keep 25GB of free storage while still getting all of the benefits of the new service. (For users who are already using more than 4GB as of April 1, we’ve automatically opted you in to 25GB of free storage to avoid any issues.) Just sign in here or view our FAQ. /../”

Planning day 2 & 3 on the TechDays 2012

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10:45 – 12:00

Discover what’s new in Windows 8 Active Directory
Speaker: Paul Loonen | Level : 300 | Room : 6 |

13:00 – 14:15

The Private Cloud, Principles, Patterns and Concepts
Speaker: Tom Shinder | Level : 300 | Room : 9 |

14:30 – 15:45

Toolmaking for Administrators using Windows PowerShell
Speaker: Jason Helmick | Level : 400 | Room : 7 |

 

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09:00 – 10:15

Private Cloud Day Session 1: Building your Private Cloud Infrastructure
Speaker: Kurt Roggen | Level : 300 | Room : 5 |

10:45 – 12:00

Private Cloud Day Session 2: Creating & Configure your Private Cloud
Speaker: Kurt Roggen | Level : 300 | Room : 5 |

13:00 – 14:15

Private Cloud Day Session 3: Monitor & Operate your Private Cloud
Speaker: Mike Resseler | Level : 300 | Room : 5 |

14:30 – 15:45

Private Cloud Day Session 4: Automating & Delivering Services in your Private…
Speakers: Mike Resseler , Kurt Roggen | Level : 3

Private Cloud Day Session 5: A Solution for Private Cloud Security
Speaker: Tom Shinder | Level : 300 | Room : 5 |

00 | Room : 5 |

16:15 – 17:30

Note-to-self: Anatomy Of A Perfect Landing Page

Every little help makes the difference.

For the UG/Bloggers and webmasters amongst us,   Arlindo Alves found this article very efficient on analyzing how a landing page should be.
Very much worth sharing.

It’s simple, easy to follow and to adapt: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/landing-page-design-infographic/

TechDays 2012: check the agenda online and 1 more week to benefit from 15% discount

Just 1 more week to benefit from a 15% discount on your ticket for TechDays 2012: the Early Bird pricing ends on December 21. Registrations are coming in strong, so be sure to secure your spot before they sell out!


Top Speakers

Developer Track
Alex Turner

Brian Keller

Jeff Prosise
IT Pro Track
Corey Hynes

John Craddock

Adam Hall

Come and see speakers like:

– In the Developer track: Alex Turner, Brian Keller, Bart De Smet, Gill Cleeren, Jeff Prosise, Maarten Balliauw, Matt Milner, Ben Riga, Steve Sanderson, Nikhil Kothari, Rob Miles, Tarek Madkour, Wade Wegner

– In the IT Pro track: John Craddock, Kurt Roggen, Ilse Van Criekinge, Adam Hall, Corey Hynes, Kim Oppalfens, Mike Resseler, Dan Holme 

International speakers are teamed up with our local experts to give you a top content mix.

TechDays program: 80% of agenda is finalized

This year promises to bring a lot of new content from Microsoft. Looking at the next versions of tooling, languages, OS and management you know this is not a standard TechDays event. Content is split into current and upcoming technology.

Deep Dives (February 16)

Peter Himschoot and Jurgen Postelmans (U2U) will be delivering a full day .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio (Dev11) Futures for Web Development Deep Dive covering all the latest and greatest in .NET 4.5, focusing on Web Development with ASP.NET, HTML5 and WCF.

Rhonda Layfield will be delivering a full day deep dive covering all the different tools and techniques to deploy Windows 7, she will also cover the upcoming Windows OS deployment tools.

Mike Resseler & Tom Shinder will deliver a full day covering private cloud topics, including Management and Operations of your private cloud infrastructure.

About TechDays 2012

Join the 10th anniversary edition in a new location (Kinepolis Imagibraine – Braine l’Alleud) and learn about:
• Windows & Internet Explorer
• Windows Server 8 & Hyper-V
• Windows Phone 7 development
• System Center 2012 & Windows Intune
• Tooling and languages with Visual Studio, C# and VB Futures
• Next generation apps
• Cloud development with Windows Azure Platform
• Web development with HTML5, JavaScript and ASP.NET
• …

> REGISTER NOW

Hope to see you at the TechDays 2012!

The new TechNet Forum Assistant

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How to Use PowerShell to create a TN Wiki catalog page

While the Microsoft Technet Forums have become the base for a very vibrant community, it’s not really THE platform to build, share and maintain documentation.

The Technet Wiki fans know that the TNWiki is a very interesting platform that perfectly complements the Technet Forums for that purpose.

Most of the people publishing on the Technet Wiki like to get an overview of their articles, once in a while.
Although the Wiki offers nice features, it’s very hard to get a concise, quick overview of your articles.

One of the tricks to achieve this, is using a personal tag. (eg. pgtag 😉
But as you can see, its not a condensed view.

Therefore I created a powershell script that does it for you.

Just take a look at this page: How to Use PowerShell to create a Wiki catalog page (feel free to copy the code and use offline for customization)

Another example (pure results of the script) is the list below:

Current ADFS Resources (Peter Geelen, 17 feb 2011)
Current Certificate Lifecycle Manager Resources (Peter Geelen, 24 sep 2010)
Current Identity Lifecycle Manager resources (Peter Geelen, 5 apr 2010)
FIM 2010 Software Solutions from Partners (Peter Geelen, 31 okt 2010)
FIM 2010 Wiki Articles (Peter Geelen, 5 jul 2011)
Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 Webcasts and Videos (Peter Geelen, 19 jul 2010)
Forefront Identity Manager Resources (Peter Geelen, 15 mrt 2010)
Get Help with ILM and FIM (Peter Geelen, 24 nov 2010)
How to Automate FIM 2010 Sync Engine Run Profile Execution (Peter Geelen, 7 dec 2010)
How to Automatically Add a Table of Contents (TOC) to Your Wiki Article (Peter Geelen, 30 mei 2011)
How to Extend the GALSync to Provision Target Objects in Sub OUs Using a Configuration File (Peter Geelen, 7 nov 2010)
How to License FIM 2010 (Peter Geelen, 17 mrt 2011)
How to Post an ILM Experts Corner Article Announcement (Peter Geelen, 28 nov 2010)
How to Set Trace for ERPMA (Peter Geelen, 9 mrt 2010)
How to Solve SQL MA Schema Update Error: ‘Attribute ‘<deleted attribute>’ could not be located in the schema’ (Peter Geelen, 22 jun 2010)
How to Use PowerShell to create a Wiki catalog page (Peter Geelen, 19 sep 2011)
ILM : How to Get Attribute Data from a Referenced Object (Peter Geelen, 7 jun 2010)
ILM 2007 FP1 / FIM 2010 Synchronization Glossary (Peter Geelen, 11 jul 2010)
ILM ERPMA with SAPRouter (Peter Geelen, 9 mrt 2010)
ILM/FIM Forum Playbook (Peter Geelen, 21 feb 2011)
ILM/FIM Run Profile Definitions (Peter Geelen, 6 jul 2010)
Troubleshooting ILM Group Populator Language Dependencies (Peter Geelen, 9 jun 2010)
Troubleshooting ILM/FIM Extensions (Peter Geelen, 24 nov 2010)
Troubleshooting ILM/MIIS with SAP Load Balancing Connection String (Peter Geelen, 9 mrt 2010)
Troubleshooting PCNS (Peter Geelen, 13 okt 2010)