Main Entry: evan·ge·lism Pronunciation: i-'van-j&-"li-z&m Function: noun 1: Do what you love, love what you do...get paid for it! I've made a great jump into our Developer and Platform Evangelism team as a developer evangelist (my new role...

Some news...I'm going to have to stop blogging under the ADCMan moniker. I'm having the best week ever. I'll tell you about it soon!

Rough night at the Connecticut .NET Users Group . A great community that had to suffer my company because the presenter didn't show up. Oh well, I think these folks were slightly amused... For the kind folks who hung around for my tap dancing, here...

Windows Activation Service (WAS) provides a central broker that can take incoming network requests and route them to the appropriate service or application, reducing the need for developers to write custom NT services to manage their own service activation...

I'm contractually obligated (the support guy) to let you know that SP1 *beta* for Visual Studio 2005 (and TFS) is open for you to join and get the bits. Soma details what this means and Vista support and BHarry says 85 issues were fixed with TFS ....

Getting back to my developer roots...I spent the evening with the folks at the Connecticut .NET User Group in Farmington, CT. Our speaker tonight was none other than my email buddy (we traded a lot of email but had never physically met): Christopher Bowen...

This is a little embarrassing (ok a lot), I can see you all wagging your fingers at me - should have been running early betas... For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to change MSDTC settings (e.g. allow Network access) under Vista RC1. Where...

Just stumbled on a great site that seeks to help developers with Vista compatibility. Welcome to DevReadiness.org - the community site dedicated to helping you, the developer, get your applications ready for Windows Vista. Pasted from < http...

Ping A customer was trying to get MSMQ working through a firewall. So I loaded him up on some requirements and this handy tidbit: Network Ports Used by Key Microsoft Server Products http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/smallbusiness/topics/serversecurity...

Coolness, we just made Winternals and Sysinternals happy members of the family! Speaking of other noteworthy events, I just discovered some hidden (hidden to me) abilities of Notepad. If I'm looking at a (Microsoft :)) Filemon or Regmon log and I only...

As a software generalist, I'm all over the development map (a blessing and a curse). Here are some blogs I live by and the links they take me to... Tess - because .NET production debugging is all our jobs. Rob Caron - because VSTS is just plain...

Bad Smells Sorry about that smell – it is my stale blog. Fixing now... Log Parser Like my compiler, Log Parser is an essential tool for this ADC. It helps me breath. Picture yourself looking for a needle in a haystack of logs – Windows Event...

Ok, that last blog entry was messy. Hopefully this one is easier to digest. I have several customers who are experiencing the joys of IIS6 and multiple worker processes (w3wp.exe). Their (you know who you are) only major gripe has been the annoying rotation...

As an ADC, I'm fortunate enough to see a lot of internal Microsoft chatter on code and such. A dear friend (and customer) badgered me for this and I thought it might be helpful to others. Remember, provided as is...(read as: test, test, test!) Q...

You coming to TechEd 2006 in Boston? I'm trying to weasel my way into it, perhaps a chalk talk or be the Vanna to someone's Pat Sajak? Scheming...Remember, this thing sells out quickly. I was going to blog about Log Parser (again, a favorite tool)...

Improve your support.microsoft.com IQ by using keywords to search for related KB articles. How to query the Microsoft Knowledge Base by using keywords and query words Pasted from < http://support.microsoft.com/?id=242450 > Keywords to...

Sometimes when all my searches and mental capacity have been exhausted and customers still want to know the "unknowable" (when will you ship SQL on Linux, etc.), I direct them to mswish@microsoft.com . That was my way to say: please, you are making it...

It pays to discover...the lifecycle of all the applications in your portfolio. Today, I helped a buddy fumble towards the right path...a customer needed support on a product that requires a Custom Support Agreement (CSA). What is a CSA? If you have to...

I keep getting asked..."how can I work at Microsoft?" Simple, visit us here: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/default.mspx

Don't forget to stare at the Visual Studio 2005 Start Page. It pointed me to a nice set of snippets. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/codesnippets/default.aspx Navigating up and down led me to http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads...

Spent the last 2 days frantically studying and taking the 2 upgrade exams for the new MCPD certification ( http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcpd/entapp/ ). 70-553 and 70-554 - I'll know in 8 weeks that I've failed them miserably :) They were actually...

Fashionably late to the blog party! Hopefully I'll help someone along the way. My role at Microsoft? I'm an Applications Development Consultant - an ADC in our Premier Support organization. I help our enterprise customers with all sorts of applications...