Category Archives: Security

ISA and all those Apps

Friends, Security
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Amy Babinchak, Microsoft MVP in ISA, has started a section on her blog with instructions on enabling some of the applications that need extra steps to work with/through ISA. Add her to your aggregator. She will also be on the … Continue reading

Microsoft Mobile Push Doesn’t Work With ISA 2000

Mobility, Security
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According to this post by Daniel Melanchthon Mobile Push mail that is coming with Windows Mobile 5 may not work out of the box on Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2 if ISA 2000 is installed (which particularly also affects SBS 2003). … Continue reading

Microsoft Security: Sometimes We Stutter

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Ouch, looks like a fresh batch of security advisories are being re-released to update you against some public and privately reported vulnerabilities in the patches released earlier this week. That little yellow shield on the bottom left corner? Yeah, the … Continue reading

Microsoft Patchday: Porn or Valentines?

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Yes ladies and gentlemen it is the 14th of February, the day fond in the hearts of System Administrators everywhere as the Microsoft Patchday. The advisories are up so get to testing and patching. Now in addition to it being … Continue reading

ISA 2006 Public Beta Open

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It feels like ISA 2004 just launched! Well, time to drop that stable firewall and caching proxy you're enjoying and check out ISA 2006. The public beta for this product was announced today and both Standard and Enterprise edition are … Continue reading

OneCare Live to go Live in June for $50

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Kevin Remde is talking about OneCare Live pricing: $49.99 per year, protecting up to 3 PC's. To thank everyone for testing the beta, Microsoft will offer the first year of OneCare at $19.99 to its beta friends. Anotherwords, go sign … Continue reading

Back from the rock: ISA 2004 SP2

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With all the drama in the Microsoft partner world I seem to have been under a rock for the past week or so. Turns out Microsoft ISA 2004 Service Pack 2 was released last week! SBSers feel there isn't much … Continue reading

End User Security Consulting Bootcamp

Security
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Laugh all you want but there are a ton of folks out there who as either a hobby or the part time job go around and help small businesses or small-office, home-office (SOHO) users that just do not have the … Continue reading

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-003

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Microsoft released a security bulletin today that may be panicking a few more people than usual, namely the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-003 titled Vulnerability in TNEF Decoding in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Could Allow Remote Code Execution (902412). Now … Continue reading

Patch for WMF exploits

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I'm sorry to interrupt your New Years plans but there is now a patch available to stop the exploit of WMF (and all the other images processed by the vulnerable shimgvw.dll library). It is made public, along with the source … Continue reading