SolutionBase: Enforce system policies with the Group Policy Diagnostic Best P...
Posted 739 days agoGroup Policy can be the most important parts of an IT groups tools to enforce IT standards and manage access, or it can be an indecipherable mess in which you do not want to touch. No matter where you fall in that mix, it is a good idea to take a look at the configuration with the Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA) explained in this article to identify your risks and configuration.
Fine tuning Microsoft ForeFront Server Security for Exchange
Posted 735 days agoForeFront is Microsoft s security solution for Microsoft
Exchange 2007. Installing ForeFront is less than half the battle however. After
you get Forefront installed, you ve got to fine tune its settings for Microsoft
Exchange 2007. Brien Posey shows how to fine tune ForeFront Server Sercurity
for Exchange.
Implementing Microsoft ForeFront Security for Exchange
Posted 739 days agoYou've seen the Microsoft ads saying how it's easier to defeat viruses using ForeFront than it is to kill zombies. Maybe. But just how hard is it to get ForeFront up and running? And what does it do? Brien Posey explains.
Configuring Exchange 2007 to be an Edge Transport Server
Posted 735 days agoOne of the new server roles that was introduced in
Exchange 2007 was that of an edge transport server. An edge transport server is
a specialized server, running a hardened version of Exchange, that sits between
your Exchange organization and the Internet. Brien Posey shows how it works.
Get Up To Speed with Interleave
Posted 733 days agoI recently wrote an article covering the installation of a
very powerful Enterprise-ready process automation system called Interleave.
This tool is exceptional for tracking and accountability. It's features go
beyond the scope of many small company needs (but shouldn't keep smaller
ventures from deploying it) so it can cover just about any company.
Getting the system up and running was no cake walk but
it's do-able for just about anyone. Using the system can, at first, seem very
daunting (due to the incredible amount of features), but it needn't be so. It's
just a matter of making Interleave fit your needs.
With that in mind, let's get to work.
Installing System Center Essentials 2007
Posted 732 days agoFor some time, Microsoft has focused on large enterprises and small business, as evidenced by products such as Small Business Server. The midmarket (500 PCs, a couple dozen servers) has very similar needs as smaller and larger enterprises, but faces unique challenges. Whereas Microsoft provides some specific products for smaller organizationsincluding the aforementioned Small Business Servermidmarket organizations have had to utilize full-fledged enterprise tools often without the benefit of large IT staffs or significant server infrastructures to do so.
Enter the "Essentials" line, which is targeted
at midmarket IT organizations. I'm not sure if all of Microsoft's mid-market
focused endeavors will use the word "Essentials" but so far, this has
been the case. For the monitoring, system management, and software deployment
side of the house, Microsoft has released System Center Essentials 2007. In
this article, I'll explain the purpose and features of this product, outline
its system requirements and limitations and walk through a sample installation.
Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Posted 3 hours agoWith a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.
Texters Should Park the Car, Take the Bus
Clive Thompson
Posted 7 hours agoTaking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.
Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal
Alexis Madrigal
Posted 7 hours agoHuge projects that would store wind energy by compressing air in abandoned mines and porous sandstone are gaining steam in the Midwest.
10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust
Mathew Honan and Steven Leckart
Posted 7 hours agoThe Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here?s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.
Broadcast Video From Your Mobile
How-To Wiki
Posted 10 hours agoYou're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block
John C Abell
Posted 10 hours agoIt?s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can?t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn?t about real estate — it?s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.
Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories
Mario Aguilar
Posted 11 hours agoFrom blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You
Brandon Keim
Posted 11 hours agoPhilosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices
Kim Zetter
Posted 12 hours agoThe Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.
Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
David Kravets
Posted 12 hours agoPink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
Drudge Report accused of serving malware
Posted 12 hours agoFor the second time in less than six months, visitors to the Drudge Report say they got malware in addition to the Web site's usual sensational headlines. by Elinor Mills CNET News
HP sues Asian firms over patents
Posted 19 hours agoHewlett-Packard has filed a suit against four companies based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accusing the defendants of patent infringement, according to various reports. by Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia
Apache bug prompts update advice
Posted 1 day agoIT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apache's HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database. by Colin Ho,ZDNet.com.au
Cray, Microsoft join forces on cloud datacenters
Posted 5 days agoSupercomputer maker Cray's custom engineering group has teamed up with Microsoft Research to look into lowering the costs of running cloud-computing datacenters. by Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK
Three arrested over 12.7m PC botnet
Posted 6 days agoAuthorities in Spain have arrested three men accused of operating a massive botnet which stole credit card and bank log-in data and infected computers in half the Fortune 1,000 companies. by Elinor Mills CNET News
Google boosts Chrome privacy in new beta
Posted 7 days agoGoogle has improved privacy features and introduced automated translation of foreign-language web pages in a new version of its Chrome 4.1 beta browser for Windows. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
EMC, Intel team up on cloud security, compliance
Posted 7 days agoEMC, RSA, VMware and Intel have announced a new collaboration to introduce a framework encompassing security and compliance for cloud computing in the enterprise space. by Kevin Kwang ZDNet Asia
LHC to restart following break and glitches
Posted 8 days agoThe The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator is to restart on Monday following a technical break and glitches in the machine. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
Skype drops Windows Mobile and Skype Lite
Posted 8 days agoSkype has announced it is pulling Skype for Windows Mobile phones and Skype Lite for Java handsets, including Android. by Jessica Dolcourt CNET News
Next Firefox to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support
Posted 12 days agoMozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers. by Stephen Shankland CNET News
Cisco embarks on media-centric Internet thrust
Posted 12 days agoThe Internet is moving away from being a data transportation and messaging platform, into a space filled with integrated rich-media content, according to Cisco Systems. by Kevin Kwang, ZDNet Asia
Google execs convicted in YouTube Italy case
Posted 13 days agoAn Italian court handed out guilty verdicts on Wednesday for three of four Google executives charged a case concerning a YouTube video posted of a teenager with Down Syndrome. by Stephen Shankland CNET News
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