Douglas R. Spindler

Douglas R. Spindler is a technology consultant and technical trainer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is president of the San Francisco Networking Technologies Users Group and a Microsoft MVP.

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Douglas R.’s Recent activity

Windows Security Vulnerability You Should Know About

Jul 27, 2010

Update 7/27/10: I've confirmed that Microsoft’s Security Essentials will detect and quarantine the link file vulnerability. ...

netOctopus Enterprise Systems Manager

May 23, 2005

Netopia's netOctopus Enterprise Systems Manager provides software distribution, asset management, and remote configuration capabilities for Windows XP and earlier and Macintosh. Familiarizing myself with the product...

LANDesk Management Suite 8

May 23, 2005

LANDesk Software's LANDesk Management Suite 8 includes all the core functionality typical of management programs: software distribution, including patch management; remote control; hardware inventory capability; and...

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 SP1

Apr 25, 2005

Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) 2003, which Figure 1 shows, is one of the most complex management programs I’ve evaluated, and the only one that supports a pure Windows environment. I conducted my SMS tests...

Novell ZENworks 6.5

Apr 25, 2005

Most Windows administrators know that Novell, well known for its NetWare product, has created numerous programs that run on NetWare servers. But were you aware that a few of Novell’s programs—such as Novell ZENworks 6...

My Horror-to-Glory DNS Tale

Aug 30, 2004

A little detective work saves a client a wad of dough

iSCSI Essentials

May 26, 2004

Internet SCSI (iSCSI), the standard adopted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for encapsulating SCSI commands in TCP/IP packets, is the low-budget solution for clustering and load balancing. iSCSI lets you...

Start Clustering!

May 26, 2004

Even small organizations can benefit from high-availability clusters