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Mark's Blog

The Power in Power Users

Posted over 7 years ago

by OttoHelweg2
- 4 Comments
Placing Windows user accounts in the Power Users security group is a common approach IT organizations take to get users into a least-privilege environment while avoiding the many pains of truly running as a limited user. The Power Users group is able...
John Weston Stories, Information, and random thoughts.

Microsoft Buys AssetMatrix

Posted over 7 years ago

by jweston
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Last week Microsoft announced that they are buying AssetMatrix, a Candian software asset management software company. Read more about the announcement below. http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml;jsessionid=Y4KWQDYXJLHFAQSNDBECKHSCJUMEKJVN...
Federal Windows Vista Team

Windows Vista Firewall

Posted over 7 years ago

by TechNet Archive
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Our colleague Jesper Johansson has a great post up on Windows Vista Firewall - definitely worth checking out. p.
Exchange Team Blog

Setting Folder Permissions in Outlook - what really happens?

Posted over 7 years ago

by The Exchange Team
- 23 Comments
Someone asked the following, so I thought I would try and address the issue as I think it is one that is commonly misunderstood: Could you enlighten us on what happens when an Outlook user uses the permissions tab on a folder to grant access to...
Keith Combs' Blahg

Jesper speaks - Windows Vista firewall is goodness

Posted over 7 years ago

by Keith Combs
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Jesper Johansson is one of our Security Strategists and like all good evangelist, dishes out his share of fire and brimstone. Unless he’s taking shots at fellow security expert Steve Riley , you can count on the topic to be interesting, technical...
Jason Leznek's Windows Vista Networking Blog

Windows Vista Firewall and Outbound Filtering

Posted over 7 years ago

by Jason Leznek
- 1 Comments
I want to clarify a point raised in a few articles over the past days which noted outbound filtering is turned off in the firewall in Windows Vista. In fact, the Windows Firewall is on by default in both directions. For consumers, the firewall protects...
Danilo Bordini - Technical Evangelism Manager- Microsoft Brasil

Semana corrida......

Posted over 7 years ago

by Danilo Bordini-MSFT
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Fiquei alguns dias sem postar notícias no blog, devido a uma semana agitada. Semana passada ocorreram alguns eventos e palestras em São Paulo e por este motivo, o tempo foi curto. Começamos na quarta-feira com o TTT (Trainer the Trainers), evento que...
The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog

SBS Is Hiring!

Posted over 7 years ago

by Mark Stanfill
- 1 Comments
Do you want to be a part of the global escalation site for SBS? Would you like to join a team of dedicated individuals involved in supporting, testing, and documenting one of the most challenging products in the Microsoft catalog? If so, you may be the...
Jesper's Blog

Windows Firewall: the best new security feature in Vista?

Posted over 7 years ago

by TechNet Archive
- 26 Comments
It is interesting how some of the best security features in Windows receive either no attention, or get criticized for the strangest reasons. Case in point: Windows Firewall is one of the best firewalls out there, and yet much of the talk about it are...
TONYSO

Tools and Tidbits from MMS

Posted over 7 years ago

by tonysoper_MSFT
- 0 Comments
Great paper on using WMI for scripting MOM from Brian Wren's session. SMS 2003 Client Health Monitoring Tool : Client health status calculated from data in the SMS database Real time online/offline status of SMS clients Summary HTML report...
Canadian IT Professionals

Speaking of Virtualization - Service Pack 1 Beta opened on Friday April 28th

Posted over 7 years ago

by rclaus
- 0 Comments
This slipped past my RSS reader until the weekend (I had a busy Friday). Service Pack 1 for Virtual Server 2005 R2 is in Beta right now. Why should you care? The big thing for me is Intel Virtualization support with a single checkbox … A friend...
Off Campus

Windows-HIED

Posted over 7 years ago

by Michael Greene
- 0 Comments
There is a great listserv for technical discussion of Microsoft and other technologies in high ed environments. Subscription information is available on http://windows-hied.org/ . The participants of the listserv have an annual conference in Redmond...