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Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 Community Technology Preview

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Woohoo, the Exchange 2003 SP2 alpha is out. Yup, for those of you not up with the lingo the “Community Technology Preview” basically means alpha so if you install this on your production server.. well, I guess you won’t be … Continue reading

Details on the new SA

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We were at the Microsoft Quarterly Partner Technight in Orlando last night (with Rene Alamo and James Cuomo) and it was a very informative event. We pressed them about the details of the new SA and they admitted they did … Continue reading

Critical Microsoft IE Remote Code Execution Exploit

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Not threatening systems with Office 2003. If you’re on OfficeXP or Visual Studio only, we kindly ask you not to browse the web for a little while. 😉 FrSIRT Advisory : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1450 CVE Reference : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH Rated as : Critical … Continue reading

New rom for SX66 is available

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For those of you that have been influenced by my use of PocketPC on many mailing lists (or business communication) will be happy to know that the new extended rom for SX66 has been released by Chris the SX66 ROM … Continue reading

News at CNN/Time Warner IT: You’ve got pink-slip!

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Slashdot is reporting news that CNN and a number of other media sites are getting owned through a pnp security hole for which a patch was released a few days ago. So not only do these companies have an incompetent … Continue reading

Messaging & collaboration webcasts for September

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Webcasts for September have been announced and I’ve provided a list below as my selection of more interesting ones. Read through the titles first and find out which ones interest you, which ones would be suitable for your network admin, … Continue reading

Messaging & collaboration webcasts for September

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Webcasts for September have been announced and I’ve provided a list below as my selection of more interesting ones. Read through the titles first and find out which ones interest you, which ones would be suitable for your network admin, … Continue reading

Selling the SA

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Software Assurance sales is the #1 non-technical question that I get from Microsoft Partners. What are the benefits, how do I get it, how do I purchase it and the most common: “Its just a free upgrade program, right?” No, … Continue reading

Exchange SLA Scorecard

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From Tonny Soper’s blog: “As we move into more complex and interdependent applications, it becomes increasingly difficult to track the capabilities of various IT services. Furthermore, it seems that there is no single formula or presentation mechanism to easily roll … Continue reading

Importance of Security Monitoring

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No, not the kind of monitoring you are already used to, but monitoring of security lists and sites for known exploits of software you already own. For example, if your security maintenance includes installing patches on the 2nd Tuesday of … Continue reading