Vol. 12, #22 - Jun 4, 2007 - Issue #628 No Adminpak For Vista? Editor's Corner TechEd 2007 in Orlando Redmond's New Surface CounterSpy Enterprise 50% Competitive Offer Extended Upcoming Seminars Comedy Quotes Of The Week: Admin Toolbox Admin Tools We Think You Shouldn't Be Without Tech Briefing No Adminpak For Vista? Expert Tip: Configuring Virtual Networks Improve Query Performance With SQL Server 2005 Execution Plans LM De-emphasized, NTLMv2 Emphasized In Vista Why Having Fewer Features In Viridian May Not Matter Windows Server News Spammers Now Use Artificial Intelligence Redmond Kicks Vista's Mail Out The Window WServer Third Party News The PDC Is Canceled Live In The U.K.? Please Vote For Double-Take WServerNews FAVE Links This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff. WServerNews - Product of the Week DoubleTake Replication in the VMWare Environment Web Traffic Demystified with Kerio WinRoute Firewall 6.3 Flushing out bottlenecks and clamping down on unproductive browsing has never been easier with the new Kerio StaR reporting system in Kerio WinRoute Firewall 6.3. Experience boosted network performance for your critical apps while filtering out Peer-to-Peer Network traffic and viruses. Includes new support for Windows Vista and 64-bit systems. http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Kerio-WinRoute Editor's Corner TechEd 2007 in Orlando If you are going, make sure to stop by our Booth 915. This year we've got another interesting giveaway campaign going! And you can see the latest versions of Ninja with the new dedicated image spam filter and the new CounterSpy Enterprise V2 with VIPRE. I will be there from Monday through Wednesday, so come see me at the booth. Next WServerNews issue will be dedicated to TechEd. I will talk about the expected new code like the MS-Office Communications Server 2007, and all the third party offerings. http://www.wservernews.com/070604-TechEd-2007 Redmond's New Surface It's been all over the press as something revolutionary. But we have seen and talked about this technology before. I had a few fave links about these types of screens months ago. There is even a website called the multi-touchscreen that has the history of these things, and also everything about Redmond's new technology. I want one to play with though, they seem pretty cool. I do not see me use it for email, but there are some other creative uses for sure. http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Touch-Screen CounterSpy Enterprise 50% Competitive Offer Extended In the month of June, you can replace any competitive product with award winning CounterSpy Enterprise. The new news is that we are extending that to sites that up to now have been making do with freeware like Spybot and Ad-Aware (yes we know you are out there). Freeware by now definitely gives you a false sense of security, they are not able to keep up. http://www.wservernews.com/070604-CounterSpy-Enterprise Upcoming Seminars We'd like to invite you to attend the following seminars that we are hosting: "Winning the War on the Spyware Battlefield" Join renowned spyware researcher and Sunbelt's Director of Malware Research, Eric Howes, for an engaging discussion on the scope of the spyware problem. Hosted at the Microsoft office in Tampa, FL on Wednesday June 20th. Register here: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Tampa-Seminar "Recovery Made Easy for Exchange, SQL, and other Critical Applications" - Join Sunbelt and Double-Take Software as we discuss strategies for implementing high availability, remote availability and offsite disaster recovery solutions for SQL, Exchange and other mission critical apps using Double-Take. You will also hear about Double-Take's NEW solutions that power your keys to recoverability. Hosted at Microsoft in Charlotte, NC on Tuesday, June 26th. Register here: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Charlotte-Seminar Comedy Quotes Of The Week: "A Committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done" - comedian Fred Allen "Silence is not only golden; it is seldom misquoted." -- comedian Bob Monkhouse 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 Disk Quota Management Software Tool: Directory Quotas, User Alerting, Quota Enforcement, Extension Blocking, Active Directory integration. Download now! http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Quota-Management-Tools mPowerTools to manage bulk AD tasks. Advanced scheduling & multi-domain support. Over 100 AD reports, includes AD & File security reporting. Download eval now! http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Namescape New Radmin V3 is a complete, secure and lightning fast Remote Control tool designed by and for system admins. Supports Vista - Try it out! http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Radmin-V3 Tech Briefing No Adminpak For Vista? Bill, say it ain't so. But it looks like no adminpak for Vista. Apparently, Microsoft wants you to remote into a terminal server to do all of your server management. I guess I can understand some of the logic but darn, you get used to doing thing a certain way and they yank the rug out from under you. Here is the MSMVPS site with the news: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Vista-Adminpak Expert Tip: Configuring Virtual Networks Virtual machines (VMs) working in isolation can be useful for some purposes, but modern applications and operating systems often rely on network connectivity to accomplish their tasks. The challenge is in finding the right balance between ease of communications and security. In this expert tip, learn the virtual networking options in Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. With this information, you can ensure that no VM is an island. (registration required) http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Virtual-Networks Improve Query Performance With SQL Server 2005 Execution Plans SQL Server 2005 allows you to feed a full execution plan to your query. Outsmart query optimizer with a faster query plan. One new tool - the plan guide - allows you to inject query hints without changing the original stored procedure code. (registration required) http://www.wservernews.com/070604-SQL2005 LM De-emphasized, NTLMv2 Emphasized In Vista Vista introduces a new but good authentication method for your network security, says expert and book author Mark Minasi. Learn more in this book excerpt from Minasi's recent, "Administering Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises." http://www.wservernews.com/070604-NTLMv2 Why Having Fewer Features In Viridian May Not Matter Even though Microsoft has dropped key features from its hypervisor called Viridian, Windows shops won't likely quibble. Find out more in this exclusive article. http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Viridian Windows Server News Spammers Now Use Artificial Intelligence Our researchers in Sunbelt had gotten wind of this already, and we built something to counter it. But now a good article in ComputerWorld confirms what we already suspected. Spammers now use AI to create Image Spam. And that is why we are happy to announce the next version of Ninja Email Security will have a dedicated image spam engine, thrown in at no extra cost. You can see it at TechEd in Orlando next week. Here is the article: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-AI-Spam Redmond Kicks Vista's Mail Out The Window Heads-up. Mail client change in the works! Redmond told the world three weeks ago that Windows Live Mail Beta 2.0 would blend features from several Microsoft mailers in one. The new code features a Vista Aero look and they claim is it faster than the old Windows Live Mail desktop. The new code handles POP, IMAP, and Windows Live Hotmail accounts. That would allow users to combine multiple interfaces. For instance a browser for Hotmail, and POP for Outlook Express in a single window. The new code runs both in Vista and WinXP. But be aware, in XP it kicks out Office Express. Nick White, a Vista program manager said in their blog: "Windows Live Mail will allow syncing with Windows Live Hotmail, serving as a client-to-service bridge." More about this at the blog itself: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Vista-Mail WServer Third Party News The PDC Is Canceled Microsoft announced the cancellation of its Oct. 2 to 5 2007 semi-annual Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) last week, leading to lots of Internet speculation on the reason. But conspiracy theorists should take a breath: The reason may well be as mundane as the fact that it just isn't necessary this year. ENTmag has the story: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-PDC Live In The U.K.? Please Vote For Double-Take We put Double-Take forward for an award in the UK and we have reached finalist stage! Could you please vote for it? Many thanks! It's at Storage Magazine Awards - replication product of the year -. Here is the link: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Vote WServerNews FAVE Links This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff. Sony unveiled the world's first flexible, full-color OLED display. The 2.5-inch prototype supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution, is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-OLED The VentureOne guys took the Carver I showed earlier and made it a hybrid! This is not "I want one". This is: "I'm gonna BUY one!" Looks like so much fun. http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Carver This week's fave SNOPES entry. Do not get fooled by some one calling you and say you did not show for jury duty and now you go to jail, but if... http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Jury-Duty-Hoax A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference. http://www.wservernews.com/070604-D5-Conference The (possible) future of inkjet printers: 60ppm! Check out these early technology demo videos. WOW that is fast... http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Inkjet The Equalizer Tee shirt I showed last week... It is less than half that price at ThinkGeek! http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Tshirt A beautiful woman next to a broken down car - a Toyota. How does he know it's a trap? Kinda funny ad: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Toyota-Trap The extent software companies will go to welcome new programmers in the India hiring madness ... Perhaps all high-technology employees should get used to this kind of over-the-top treatment? :-) http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Jobs Here is another pretty cool video about surface computing. Check this Popular Mechanics video. Minority Report is just around the corner... http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Surface-Computing This inventor found a way to release the oxygen and hydrogen from saltwater by blasting it with radio frequency, generating a flame of 3,000 Fahrenheit (the melting point of Titanium): http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Alternative-Fuels Star Wars Help Desk. A long time ago, in a cubicle far, far away... I liked: "I need the model and serial number of the tractor beam you are calling about", and the "ID10T" error... http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Star-Wars-Support Helicopters aren't supposed to do that, are they? The Eurocopter BO-105 does back flips, loops, barrel rolls and other aerobatic maneuvers: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Eurocopter Ben Underwood has taught himself to see without eyes. He is blind, but rides bicycles, skates, plays basketball and even plays video games: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Blind Sandra Bullock on a Muppets Tonight sketch. Parody of the the "Mahna Mahna" song with Bullock as a psychiatrist and Kermit The Frog as a patient... http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Muppets Make your own AT-AT from paper. Now there is a time consuming hobby! http://www.wservernews.com/070604-AT-AT And a cute one to end off. Why everyone needs a pet: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Pet WServerNews - Product of the Week DoubleTake Replication in the VMWare Environment When recoverability matters, ensure you can protect and recover business critical data and applications. Double-Take and VMware software can be used to provide solutions for challenging high availability and disaster recovery problems by leveraging real-time data replication and virtualization technologies to create cost- effective, simplified disaster recovery architectures: http://www.wservernews.com/070604-Double-Take