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March 2005 - Posts
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Yesterday, Windows Server 2003 service pack 1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing and the 329Mb service pack is available for download from the Microsoft website . Like Windows XP service pack 2 (SP2), released last August , SP1 is primarily a security Read More...
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There is no doubt that malicious software (malware) is on the increase. We have learnt how to deal with the ever increasing number of viruses, worms and Trojan horses , but spyware is now a major problem too. Earlier this month, it was widely reported Read More...
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Yesterday, I blogged about a shortcut to hibernate a Windows XP PC (for people who are too lazy to use between 3 and 5 clicks when a double-click will do). Keni Barwick replied with an alternative to lock the workstation ( %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe Read More...
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I can't find the reference which started me off with this, but a few weeks ago I came across a tip for creating a shortcut to hibernate a Windows XP PC (for people who find that 5 clicks is just too much). How people find these obscure features I'll never Read More...
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Microsoft and the European Commission have finally agreed on the name for the version of Windows XP with Media Player removed - Windows XP N. How dull? I preferred Windows XP Reduced Media Edition (after all, one of the benefits of "regular" XP is its Read More...
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It's probably well-known by many people, but I just stumbled across Microsoft's MSN Sandbox . It's a bit like Google Labs (Google's "technology playground"), featuring what Microsoft calls "incubation experiments" which may or may not "represent any particular Read More...
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There is much talk in the IT press about how we can no longer rely on single factor identification (e.g. user name and password) and about how biometric security could be at least part of the answer; but for an alternative take on just how dangerous an Read More...
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Phishing worries me. In fact, identity theft in general is one of my major concerns (and is the reason I refuse to do any more business with one of the UK's largest banks, who will not respond to letters or e-mails requesting that they remove my online Read More...
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Over the last few months I've been critical of the time its taken for Microsoft to ship an SP2-aware update to their application compatibility toolkit . Last week, one of the consultants from Microsoft UK e-mailed me to let me know that the Microsoft Read More...
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I'm yet to be convinced of the business benefits of instant messaging (IM). At Conchango , we don't prohibit IM - in fact it is encouraged - I use Microsoft's MSN Messenger service , as do many of my colleagues. I suspect the reason we that we haven't Read More...
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I just came across a useful page on the HP website providing details of some of the locations where spyware hides and the different forms it takes. Another page looks at the business cost of spyware . Interesting reading. Read More...
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The SUS/WUS name debate continues... Today I received notification from Microsoft that the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) release candidate (RC) is now available. Microsoft's e-mail to participants of the WSUS open evaluation program (OEP) reads: Read More...
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Back in my student days I used MS-DOS 5.0 and WordPerfect 5.1. It worked really well. Then I moved to Windows 3.1 and Word for Windows 2.0 (Windows versions of WordPerfect just never made the grade). Obviously I was not alone because over the intervening Read More...
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One of my colleagues sent me this useful link for information on how to create and edit Exchange Server 2003 unattend files . Read More...
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This one made me laugh when I read it in the Windows IT Pro magazine network WinInfo Daily Update: "The Macintosh community was agog this week at news that Linux creator Linus Torvalds has 'switched' to the Mac, but the truth, as is so often the case, Read More...
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Thomas Lee recently blogged about UK government's security awareness website which is intended to "provide both home users and small businesses with proven, plain English advice to help protect computers, mobile phones and other devices from malicious Read More...
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There's been a lot of talk about radio frequency identification (RFID) in the IT press recently. For a technology that has been around in various forms since the second world war, its taken a long time to come to market (OK, that's not strictly true it's Read More...
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In my recent post which discussed the perils of blogging I linked to Ray Ozzie's Weblog . This week, I was interested to read that Ray Ozzie was actually the creator of Lotus Notes and that his company, Groove Networks is to be acquired by Microsoft (who Read More...
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I've just read about a new message continuity service from FrontBridge , designed to provide always on e-mail in today's environment where e-mail outage is seen as a major business continuity issue. Complementing the other e-mail managed services offered Read More...
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We are all used to spam arriving in our e-mail inboxes, but now the problem is spreading to other communications methods. Research by Wireless Services Corporation shows almost half of the mobile phone text messages received in the US are spam, compared Read More...
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Several months ago, I attended a Microsoft TechNet UK event where the topic was ISA Server 2004 network design/troubleshooting and inside application layer firewalling and filtering . It's taken me a while to get around to writing up the notes, but finally, Read More...
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For anyone who is new to Exchange Server 2003, here's a brief overview that may be of use. Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 was launched in 1996, as a replacement for Microsoft Mail 3.x. It was Microsoft's first groupware product, competing directly with Read More...
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