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Vol. 15, #39 - Sep 27, 2010 - Issue #798
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Microsoft Sounds Alert On Massive Web Bug
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- Editor's Corner
- Microsoft Sounds Alert On Massive Web Bug
- Quotes of the Week
- Admin Toolbox
- Admin Tools We Think You Shouldn't Be Without
- Webinars and Seminars
- Sunbelt Exchange Archiver? Product Demonstration - 9/28
- Hyper-V Live Migration: Step-by-Step - 10/14
- Tech Briefing
- Top 10 Features For Exchange 2010 SP1
- How To Fix The Five Most Common Outlook Errors
- Are Android Devices As Secure As iPads And iPhones?
- Windows Server News
- Small Business Server 7 Public Preview Now Available
- Revamping Business Operations With A VMware Cloud
- How Workload Balancing Prevents Virtualization Problems
- Amazon Corners Off Its Cloud For Oracle Users
- Managing WAN Performance For VDI
- Third Party News
- Searching AntiVirus Solution For Amazon Cloud
- The Top 20 VMware Performance Metrics You Should Care About
- VIPRE Enterprise Feedback on Spiceworks
- WServerNews "Fave Links"
- This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff
- WServerNews - Product of the Week
- Proactive Server and Infrastructure Management with PacketTrap IT
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Editor's Corner |
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Microsoft Sounds Alert On Massive Web Bug
Microsoft is warning users that a critical bug in ASP.Net could be
exploited by attackers to hijack encrypted Web sessions and pilfer
usernames and passwords from Web sites. Many of us are running our
websites on Windows Servers using ASP.Net, so this is something you
need to look into, if you missed this important news. I suggest you
do this one right away. Computerworld had the best story:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-webbug
Here is Redmond's Security Advisory:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-redmondadvisory
Quotes of the Week
"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people
wouldn't obey the rules." -- Alan Bennett
"The difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a
person's determination." -- Tommy Lasorda
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Webinars and Seminars |
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Sunbelt Exchange Archiver? Product Demonstration - 9/28
Exchange performance is suffering. Your users complain about email storage
and don't want any quotas. Your CEO requires legal compliance. Want a
high-end, feature-rich, admin-friendly product that solves all these issues
at a very affordable price? Then don?t miss this Sunbelt Exchange Archiver
demonstration.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 2:00pm ? 2:30pm EDT. Register here:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-archiverdemo
Hyper-V Live Migration: Step-by-Step - 10/14
"Playbook to a Seamless Hyper-V Live Migration"
Windows Server 2008 R2?s Hyper-V live migration feature enables you to move
virtual machines between Hyper-V hosts with no end user downtime. It also
can blend seamlessly into existing IT environments. A live Hyper-V migration
allows for:
Data center consolidation and migration
Ease of management
End-to-end disaster recovery
Application workload balancing
Zero downtime maintenance
In this first half of this web seminar, Michael Otey, technical director for
Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, will explain the architecture and
requirements of a live migration. He will then go through a step-by-step
guide showing you how to configure the Windows Server infrastructure for
live migration.
In the second half, we will discuss common deployment scenarios for live and
quick migration. We will also present a customer case study and benefits to
help you make an informed decision on deploying this solution.
Register for this live web seminar to learn the ins and outs:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-seminar
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Tech Briefing |
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Top 10 Features For Exchange 2010 SP1
Service Packs are always welcome in the Microsoft world. Some offer simply
a collection of hotfixes and patches, along with a few new toys and
enhancements. Others, like Exchange 2010 SP1, bring a long list of
improvements. Here are the 10 Exchange 2010 SP1 changes I most appreciate.
Excellent little article in InfoWorld:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-exchangefeatures
How To Fix The Five Most Common Outlook Errors
There are five Outlook errors that frequently plague Exchange Server
organizations. Access this popular content to learn a few helpful fixes
to these error messages:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-outlookerrors
Are Android Devices As Secure As iPads And iPhones?
Apple has done enough security-wise with its iPhone and iPad to make
many CSOs comfortable with the mobile devices connecting to corporate
networks, but Google's Android still has a ways to go. Andrew Jaquith,
a Forrester Research senior analyst who issued a report this summer
on iPhone/iPad security and says the No. 1 client inquiry topic for
him this past quarter has been the iPad, acknowledges that he is still
coming up to speed on Android and its security model. However, he says
it is clear that Google -- and especially the carriers supporting
Android smartphones and tablets -- "frankly have their priorities
around share rather than security... Android devices have been propelled
along by the desire of the carriers to get a higher margin device that
competes well with the iPhone and iPad, that gives them some buzz and
makes them more than dumb pipes." More at InfoWorld:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-androidsvsipads
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Windows Server News |
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Small Business Server 7 Public Preview Now Available
Paul Thurrott reported this week that Microsoft on Tuesday issued a public
preview version of its upcoming Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 7, a
direct follow-up to the current SBS version. For this next-generation SBS,
Microsoft is actually splitting the product line into two distinct products,
SBS 7 and SBS "Aurora. The latter is based on Windows Home Server (WHS)
and dispenses with the bundled server products.
"SBS 7 is dedicated to providing small-business customers with a highly
manageable, low complexity solution to help cut costs, save time, and be
more efficient," Microsoft General Manager Kevin Kean wrote in a blog
post announcing the release. "SBS 7 offers on-premise email and
collaboration-suite functionalities that Aurora's customers can add
through online services." More, and a link to the download here:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-previewbizserv7
Revamping Business Operations With A VMware Cloud
Over the past year VMware has worked to move beyond commoditized
virtualization and toward a cloud computing strategy. This expert tip
details the practical implementation of private clouds, how VMware?s
offerings fit into this architecture and the impact of this new model
on business operations:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-vmware
How Workload Balancing Prevents Virtualization Problems
While server virtualization technologies are now quite stable, admins
must carefully consider workload balancing. Gain insight into how
effective workload balancing can prevent virtualization problems in
this featured tip:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-balance
Amazon Corners Off Its Cloud For Oracle Users
Amazon Web Services has stepped up its partnership with Oracle,
designating a discrete portion of its cloud infrastructure to run
Oracle?s virtualization technology and applications on pre-configured
Amazon Machine Images. Receive more insight into this collaboration
and find out what it means for Oracle users in this popular article:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-cloud
Managing WAN Performance For VDI
The enterprise adoption of virtual desktop infrastructure technology has
fallen short of market expectations, leading vendors to wonder what the
barrier to growth is. Find out what the performance impact of distance,
bandwidth and latency is on your VDI with this exclusive content:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-wanvdi
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Searching AntiVirus Solution For Amazon Cloud
Just received the following a few days ago: "Just thought I share my
journey, searching for an ANTIVIRUS solution for the Amazon Cloud.
My requirements were the following:
- Must provide specific consideration for Windows Servers, not only
workstations.
- Easy to install and to deploy without major configuration changes
on servers.
- Easy administration and flexible policy configuration and functionality.
- Easy to understand, intuitive GUI.
- (Optional) Includes a Host-based Intrusion Detection System.
- (Optional) Includes an Intrusion Prevention System.
- Must actually work!!.
I installed the following products? trial version software, it varied from
being impossible to install to impossible to work with:
- Product A (impossible to install and distribute agent software, very
complex to install and use)
- Product B (Not consistent, almost impossible to install and distribute
agent software)
- Product C (with the hope this should be simple, could not even connect
to Microsoft SQL Server for database during installation)
- Product D (have lots of experience so I could install the server and
agents. The product is just so limited in functionality and inconsistent that
I cannot work with it).
- Product E (actually did not get to install the product, from docs and
early experience it appears to have the same level of administration
complexity as Trend Micro).
- GFI VIPRE (by miles the BEST)
As you can see, I installed and tested 5 products until I installed GFI VIPRE.
This should give you an idea how dissatisfied I was with your competitor?s
product, I just refused to work with it. After installing GFI VIPRE and
deployed it to 4 remote servers in my Amazon Cloud under an hour, I was
actually SO impressed with GFI VIPRE, I had to tell you about it and no
wonder GFI just bought Sunbelt Software. This product is SO FAR ahead in
usability, installability, readability, manageability etc., against any
of the other products I evaluated. It is actually amazing.
GFI VIPRE?s antivirus software:
- Documentation is extremely well written for administrators who do not
have time to read.
- Product is extremely simple to install.
- GUI is extremely simple to understand and intuitive.
- Extremely simple to configure remote server and to distribute agents.
- Very simple to configure policies.
- It includes HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention).
- It includes IDS (Intrusion Detection).
- So far, it actually works.
Your product is amazing, thank you very much.
-- L.B. Systems Administrator
The Top 20 VMware Performance Metrics You Should Care About
VKernel is running a webinar series and offering a white paper titled,
"The Top 20 VMware Performance Metrics You Should Care About." The webinar
and white paper address key capacity measures -- including about 15 that
are commonly overlooked -- that if monitored correctly, can save a sys
admin a lot of grief (and also save money for the company).
Registration for the webinar is available at:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-top20vmwarewebinar
The free white paper ?Top Twenty VMware Performance Metrics You Should
Care About? can be downloaded from:
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-whitepaper
VIPRE Enterprise Feedback on Spiceworks
Some one posted a question ?Who's moved to Vipre and why?? Here is one
response, (edited for brevity)
"Ok.. my two cents... We just finished up doing an in depth eval on Vipre
and have some thoughts. I have used MANY other corporate AV and IMHO this
is the lightest one out there. Almost noticed a speed increase immediately.
We have really put it though its paces, including the ability to
automatically remove our old protection as it installs itself.
Where we had problems in the past is not so much Viruses, but with spyware
detection and removal. According to Sunbelt, their company started as a
spyware company and built their AV engine from the spyware side instead
of the other way around. I believe that most threats out there now fall
into the category of not the traditional 'virus' but the spyware steal
your money or information category. Our current AV has done little to
none for the current 'fake antivirus' infections. I was tired of running
a corp AV product and having to use MBAM to remove all these pesky fake
antivirus malware.
The console is one of the nicest I have seen. It has real information,
well organized, and updated often. You have a lot of control over the
agents and they can be put into user-defined groups to act differently
accordingly. These can be by location, type ie workstation, server, remote
user, etc. The quarantines are managed better than I have seen as well.
We are a manufacturing entity with multiple US physical locations (wans),
remote offices overseas, and remote US users (vpn). One thing I particularly
like is that you can open one port in the company firewall, set a route
to the Vipre console machine, and have visibility of ALL your AV in the
world. This took me about 5 minutes to set this up. You create an
installable to send to this user if they are not local at the time of
install, and when they run the MSI, they show up and are manageable just
like they were down the hall. The only thing is they get their updated
directly from Sunbelt from the Internet instead of your server. All
their quarantine and actions are fully manageable by the console. And
will the grouping, you can set so they can manage or see more of whats
going on than local users (so you don't get a call at 3am from Australia
for instance)
One last thing, I said we were doing an evaluation. Should have said we
are just waiting on CFO to sign off on the purchase order so we can rid
ourselves of our current AV and move to Sunbelt. And until the end of
this month, they are doing a fantastic promotion for competitive upgrades.
(and no I do NOT work for Sunbelt or have any personal ties to them)
-- Thank you, S.F.
30-day eval here. Did you know you get free tech support during this?
http://www.wservernews.com/100927-viprefreetrial
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Find out about server performance issues before they affect end users. With
support for Windows, Linux, VMWare, Exchange, SQL and Active Directory;
all your mission critical servers and applications can be monitored for
performance. PacketTrap can notify you of performance problems before
they affect your end users and even automatically fix common issues. With
integrated troubleshooting tools and the ability to remotely access servers
directly from PacketTrap, you have all the tools you need to avoid costly
performance problems from one solution.
Download a FREE 21 day trial and be entered to win an Apple iPad.
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