Vol. 11, #50 - Dec 19, 2006 - Issue #606 Last Issue Of The Year Editors Corner Last Issue Of The Year Quotes Of The Week: Admin Toolbox Admin Tools We Think You Shouldn't Be Without Tech Briefing Crash Course: Virtualization Basics Exclusive Article: Recover Data For Windows Servers With Linux New Windows Generation Raises Same Old IT Challenges Exchange Server 2003 Storage Management Options Special Report: VMworld 2006 Windows Server News $50,000 For A Vista Exploit Windows Shops Weighing Service Desk As An Option Exchange 2007 - It's Official Windows Server Third Party News SQL Server 2005 Options for Recoverability Sunbelt Emulator Debugger WServerNews 'FAVE' LINKS This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff. WServerNews - PRODUCT OF THE WEEK Sunbelt Network Security Inspector; Editor's Choice Kerio MailServer adds Direct Push email for Outlook Mobile The latest release of Kerio MailServer 6.3 gives businesses the easiest way to deliver mobile email to all their employees. Kerio will wirelessly push email to Windows Mobile devices and synchronize contacts, calendars and tasks using the ActiveSync(r) protocol. Kerio MailServer downloads and installs in minutes on Windows XP for quick and easy evaluation. Best of all, the new 10-user base license starts at just $399. http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Kerio-MailServer Editors Corner Last Issue Of The Year This is your last WServerNews of the year! The next one will be the Jan 8, 2007 issue, and that's going to be the famous Crystal Ball issue with predictions for the coming year, and how I did with my predictions for 2006. I'm dreading it already, as it is the shortest issue of the year that takes by far the longest to write! If you have any predictions of your own, you can send them to me. I'll include them (and your name) if they are any good, LOL. We will also feature the Top 10 Fave Links of 2006! All of us at Sunbelt wish you Happy Holidays and hopefully a few days of real downtime, instead of using the holidays to build new systems, swap out servers, and make infrastructure upgrades. But even if there's no choice and you gotta do that, have a great time! I have added a few extra Fave Links, so you have something to watch while waiting for the backups to finish... Quotes Of The Week: "Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him." -- Ronald Reagan "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." -- Albert Einstein Hope you enjoy this issue of WServerNews! Warm regards, Stu  |   Email me: feedback@wservernews.com Admin Toolbox Admin Tools We Think You Shouldn't Be Without The Number One 'High-Availability-And-Disaster-Recovery' tool in-one. Double-Take sold more licenses than all other HA/DR products combined: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Double-Take FREE Web Employee Directory + Secure Self Service - rDirectory for Active Directory. http://www.wservernews.com/061219-NameScape CounterSpy Enterprise is still by far the best choice for centralized antimalware. The threat database is unsurpassed, and extremely complete: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-CounterSpy-Enterprise Messaging Ninja now runs on 5000+ Exchange production servers. It's the fastest adopted antispam / antivirus product in the market: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Sunbelt-Messaging-Ninja Tech Briefing Crash Course: Virtualization Basics Take a fast trip through tips on choosing virtualization products, managing virtual machine sprawl and virtual hard disks, migrating from VMware to Microsoft Virtual Server and more. Your guide is Anil Desai, IT book author and consultant and SearchServerVirtualization.com Ask the Expert advisor; not to mention MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA and a Microsoft MVP. http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Virtualization-Basics Exclusive Article: Recover Data For Windows Servers With Linux While the fear of losing stored data is a major issue for IT managers, not being able to recover what is lost is even more of a concern. In this article, expert Gary Olsen will review some options for recovering lost data, including a cool way to recover data from a Windows disk using a Linux server. (free registration required) http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Data-Recovery New Windows Generation Raises Same Old IT Challenges Vista, Office System 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 are slated for delivery this month. But for enterprises, these platforms will mean lots of time and work for years to come. http://www.wservernews.com/061219-IT-Challenges Exchange Server 2003 Storage Management Options Exchange Server 2003 supports three primary types of storage technologies: storage area networks (SAN), network-attached storage (NAS), and direct-attached storage (DAS). In this SearchExchange.com crash course, contributor Brien Posey explains how each option works and discusses its advantages and disadvantages for Exchange Server storage management. http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Exchange-Server-2003 Special Report: VMworld 2006 VMworld 2006 recently in Los Angeles was the place where all major virtualization players came together. SearchVirtualization.com was there for the entire event. Read more in this special report. http://www.wservernews.com/061219-VMword-2006 Windows Server News $50,000 For A Vista Exploit Slashdot reported that Snakepit Bit wrote "Underground hackers are hawking a zero-day exploit for Windows Vista at $50,000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro. The Windows Vista exploit, which has not been independently verified, was just one of many zero-days available for sale at an auction-style marketplace infiltrated by the anti-virus vendor. Prices for exploits for unpatched code execution flaws are in the $20,000 to $30,000 range. eWEEK has a story about this too: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Vista-Exploit Windows Shops Weighing Service Desk As An Option IT managers' interest is piqued by Microsoft's foray into the help desk space. But many high-end and low-end software players are already entrenched in IT organizations. Microsoft's elite beta users recently got their first glimpse at the software company's help desk code as it prepares to launch its first product, code-named Service Desk, by late 2007 or early 2008. Service Desk promises to have a workflow engine to automate tasks, keep track of an organization's hardware and software assets and centralize software configs. Microsoft made its help desk foray public last month as part of its System Center Configuration Management product family. More at: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Service-Desk Exchange 2007 - It's Official There will be a LOT more said about this the coming year, but here is the link to Redmond's official site for the moment. We in Sunbelt are already turning it inside out, so that we can support Ninja on this new platform. http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Exchange-2007a http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Exchange-2007b Windows Server Third Party News SQL Server 2005 Options for Recoverability Ask Yourself: How long would it take your DBA to get SQL up and running if the server crashed? Less than 5 minutes? Can you afford to lose an entire day's worth of data? Can you backup your SQL Server 24/7 without impacting production? While SQL Server 2005 offers options for database protection and recovery, none of them is intended to provide a complete disaster recovery solution. In today's environment, corporate and regulatory mandates drive many of these requirements beyond what native SQL Server data protection options can provide. That's why thousands of customers choose Double-Take to reduce complexity and improve up-time of their critical SQL Servers. Join this webinar to discover a SQL Server protection strategy that can provide: Real-time data protection capabilities for the entire SQL Server. Extensive bandwidth management and recovery with patented data integrity regardless of distance. Complete application protection and recovery. Simplified recovery process that dramatically reduces the time and effort involved with SQL Server recovery to a single button-click. http://www.wservernews.com/061219-SQL-2005-Recoverability Sunbelt Emulator Debugger Alex wrote: "A major part of the new CounterSpy 2.0 is the inclusion of a number of antivirus technologies to combat the increasingly complex forms of malware out there. For example, since over 90% of all malware is packed using UPX or other similar packers, we built our own generic unpacker. One thing we needed to do was to build our own x86 emulator that will run inside a future version of CounterSpy Anti-malware Engine. As part of that, we built our own emulator/debugger for analyzing malware and automatically creating signatures. I was playing with it over the weekend and it's pretty cool (don't worry, I only play a programmer on TV). The malware executes inside the emulator and you can unpack it for analysis, similarly to how you might debug or analyze code in OllyDbg or the like. Here is a picture: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Sunbelt-Emulator-Debugger WServerNews 'FAVE' LINKS This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff. Apollo 11 Moon Landing. For the first time with synchronized voice, stereo audio and subtitles. Interested in space stuff? This is a MUST SEE: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Apollo-11 "If programmers had to build planes" A humorous look on what programmers are doing... Building Airplanes In the Sky. Hee hee. http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Programmers Human Rights. You you actually know all 30? The Youth For Human Rights website has all 30 in the form of Public Service Announcements, and I -really- liked them a LOT! Here is the first one: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Human-Rights The New York Times has an interesting little article about marrying the cellphone to cheap Internet calling: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Cellphone Like movie Special Effects? Industrial Light And Magic has a cool website: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-ILM You may not know yet, but on December 14 Redmond launched a new home page for Microsoft.com. The new page incorporates months of research, testing, customer feedback, and refinements: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Microsoft Microsoft offers software for building robots with Robotics Studio 1.0: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Robotics-Studio Not sure where you lie in the great wilderness that is the Internet? Wondering how far away your friends (or enemies) are along the TCP/IP pipes? Look no further - just use the Map of the Internet! http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Map Some Stunning high-res still images of a recent space walk: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Space-Walk A very high powered flashlight, capable of lighting things on fire, roasting marshmallows or blinding your would-be attacker: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Flashlight What really is Net Neutrality? Is it under attack? Get the scoop from Tim Berners-Lee and Vinton Cerf: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Net-Neutrality Stephen Wiltshire takes a 45 minute helicopter ride over Rome and then draws a 15 foot wide panoramic picture of the city without having a second glance at it: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Photographic-Memory Here is a default password list for a whole bunch of devices. Both extremely handy and scary at the same time! http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Default-Passwords WSN reader Jeff Cummings works at Who's Calling, Inc and they coded this game: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Whos-Calling Swiss rocket powered bicycle reaches a speed of 236 km/h (147 mph) and breaks the World Speed Record: http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Rocket-Bike Seen Google's new Patent Service? Alex thinks it's pretty cool! http://www.wservernews.com/061219-Google-Patent-Search WServerNews - PRODUCT OF THE WEEK Sunbelt Network Security Inspector; Editor's Choice IT Week Magazine wrote: "This software package can detect over 2,500 network vulnerabilities, and it wins our Editor's Choice Award for value and security." We agree. SNSI literally uses a military spec database that many three-letter U.S. Government agencies use to secure their networks. But we license it per admin seat, not IP (!) to keep it affordable for SMB companies. This is a tool you should not be without. And if you get a 100-seat license of CounterSpy or Ninja before the end of the year, you get it even at no cost. http://www.wservernews.com/061219-SNSI