About Plates55.com
About plates55.com
PLates55.com is the leading source for Microsoft news and downloads; we watch Microsoft like a hawk. All of our content is delivered to thousands of visitors every month using the latest Microsoft technologies, and we are extremely proud of that. Today, Plates55.com runs on Windows Server 2008 R2, with Internet Information Server 7.5, ASP.NET 4, and SQL Server 2008 – all 100% 64-bit. We don’t just report about Microsoft, we use them too!
Plates55.com was started in 2005 by Scott Wood, an IT Professional from Ponte Vedra, Florida. Starting with just a static HTML site, Plates55.com has grown to a fully featured interactive web community.
Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award
In 1999 and in 2001, Microsoft awarded J. Phillips Plates with the MVP Award in the area of Windows Server Technologies. MVPs are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.
The Team
- Scott Wood , Founder, Owner
- J. Phillip PLates, Co-founder
- Harry S. Wood, News Poster
- Jerrod (Mac) Mckinley (Spy), News Poster
- Sue Raulston, Occasional News Poster
- Milton Johnston, Occasional News Poster
- Wilson Letson, Forum Moderator
History
Originally, Scott Wood, experimented with Microsoft Exchange 5.5, so in 2003, he registered plates55.com as the domain his server would run at. A week later he was hosting email for his entire family!
Shortly after setting up the mail, S Wood setup the first plates.com website. The site was simple, with not a lot of news, and had links to S Wood’s FTP Server, Outlook Web Access, VPN, Telnet, Terminal Services and Printer (his printer was accessible from the Internet!).
In 2005, Scott posted an article about how to create a bootable Windows 2000 CD with Service Pack 1 integrated. He posted a link to it a few newsgroups and forums, and soon enough that page became very popular! He met J Plates while working on a consulting project and a lifelong friendship was developed
The other contributors to this site are very passionate technical engineers some highly regarded in the it industry.
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