E-mail authentication built on the Sender ID Framework (SIDF) is gaining wide adoption, providing a major advancement in the fight against spam and phishing messages. In fact, more than a third of the world’s e-mail volume is already authenticated and...

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After we understand how UAC works and realize the importance of enabling UAC to prevent potential problems that may arise during your Windows Vista deployment in your environment, we can move on to discussing how to configure UAC to optimize security...

Can a popup put you in prison? You love it, you hate it....ok, you may hate it, but.... You’ve seen it, or at least heard about it in Windows Vista: User Account Control or UAC (formerly known as LUA or Least Privileged User Account). With...

RMS 1.0 SP2 added native support for SharePoint Server 2007. For a step-by-step guide about deploying RMS with SharePoint Server 2007, please refer to this document: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bab2321-71e6-4cf2-8bcd...

Due to the file format change of WSUSScan.cab file, MBSA 2.0.1 has already been released for a while. MBSA 2.0.1 is REQUIRED in order to use the new file format. In March 2007, the previous version of WSUSScan.cab will no longer be maintained. Users...

In Exchange 2007, the Recipient Configuration node and its child nodes (Mailbox, Distribution Group, Mail Contact, Disconnected Mailbox) of the Exchange Management Console (console) are used for recipient management. By default, up to 1000 recipients...

Network Monitor is a very useful tool to troubleshoot Network related issues. Microsoft has released the new Network Monitor 3.0 which is supported on Windows Vista. Here are some of the key features of Network Monitor 3.0: l A completely...

Many customers may have questions as to how to confirm that KMS is working properly prior to reaching the 25 client threshold. To determine whether the KMS machine and the client machine are working, you should be able to view the event logs on...

This article contains information that may answer questions from customers regarding upcoming patches / tools needed to correctly handle the changes to Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the US and elsewhere across the world resulting from the Energy Policy...

MBSA version 2.1 will fully support Windows Vista . The first beta version of MBSA 2.1 will be available in the first quarter of 2007. The full release version of MBSA 2.1 will be available in the third quarter of 2007. But the current version of MBSA...

E-mail is one of the most mission-critical and storage-intensive applications in today's business world. Designing a right storage solution for Exchange Server 2007 is hence very important to any IT professional. This blog provides the following...