January 2005 Entries
Phishing scams hijack big-name brands and use customers' trust in those brands to convince people to divulge personal financial information such as usernames, passwords, Social Security numbers, and credit card numbers.
The Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool automatically examines an Exchange Server deployment and determines if the configuration is set according to Microsoft best practices. You can install the tool on a client computer that is running Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1. With the proper network access, the tool can examine all your Active Directory directory service and Exchange servers to:
Microsoft has released the Windows Server 2003 Server Performancce Advisor, a server performance diagnostic tool developed to diagnose root causes of performance problems in a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 operating system, particularly performance problems for Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and the Active Directory® directory service. Server Performance Advisor measures the performance and use of resources by your computer to report on the parts that are stressed under workload.
AdventNet released a freeware version of OpManager 5, its systems management software.
Raymond Chen has one artical posted on his blog that talks about how to tweak the network bandwidth Windows Automatic Update will use. It is very usefull on those systems that don't have Microsoft SUS or Microsoft WUS implemented. I quoted the full article below:
Vincent Flanders' Web Pages That Suck has a very interesting article called “The Biggest Web Design Mistakes 2004” that lists the mistakes on web design from a visitor's perspective. Some of them are very good but not all of them. One sentence comments blog like:
This is a really good white paper talking about the blog on the coporate level. It talks what the definition is about corporate blog, what the reasons are for coporate blogging, what typs of corporate blogs are, and the steps to corporate blog.
see the full white paper here
Finding the right utility or tool can shave a significant amount of time and effort from a given task or
even let you complete tasks that would otherwise be impossible. Many of us have discovered our
favorite tools by word of mouth or while looking for the solution to a particular problem. But as you
know, finding a great tool is only half the battle: You must then download and install it, learn to use it
in your environment, and figure out how to fit it into your existing security toolkit.
Everyone knows the security issues on IIS world even though it's been quiet for some time since the IIS 6.0 was released alone with Windows Server 2003. This is a very good article talking about how to secure your IIS server on Windows platform in proper way. Don't let the vulnerabilities to get you down.
Tips for Securing IIS
Bill Evjen has a very good post his blog, which list a bunch of resource on learning ASP.Net.
Learn ASP.NET: Items of Importance in the ASP.NET World
.Text is such a good fundament for the people who is interested in hosting their own blog on .Net and SQL server based platform. At least, I am one of them, and also really enjoy digging into the author's source as well. Someone mentioned some other good blog fundament that contains the good features that .Text doesn't have naturally, such as search, comment block, etc...
What is it?
Paessler Site Inspector is a comprehensive set of website and web page analysis tools. This web page analyzer is the perfect companion for people creating websites or working with the Internet. Site Inspector brings various analysis techniques and selected online resources together in one place and plugs them into the application already running on your desktop when you surf the Web: Internet Explorer.
writen by Michael Otey
originally published at Windows ITPro Meg Instant Doc ID 38924
10. Display the Administrator Logon dialog box - to display a Windows 2000-style logon screen, press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice. However, the administrator logon dialog box will be shown by default if the XP machine is joined into the domain.
9. Use the Windows Classic Start menu and desktop - to give users the familiar Win2K-style
I have this Microsoft AntiSpyware beta version loaded on my computer and had been working fine until yesterday when I performed a full scan which is the program asked for. It crashed all my network settings. I can't access any network resource, can't access the Internet. Well, it did get response when I try to ping but combined a beep together with the following messages.