Mark Wilson enjoyed a TechNet event so much he wrote an article all about it! Most firewalls only inspect the packet header of each piece of traffic and ignore the payload itself. As Mark explains traffic that's destined for port 80 may not necessarily...

This article, from Jamie Thomson, is a very clear and concise introduction into customised SSIS package logging, using Event Handlers. Jamie takes you through the steps involved and provides an example you can download. All the supporting SQL is provided...

Microsoft Operations Manager A Solution for the SME Managed Service Provider Background The expansion of broadband availability in the UK is having a significant impact on the complexity and penetration of IT systems and technology in the...

Adrian Beasley wrote a wonderful article on Certificate Server Enterprise Edition and Smartcards - I particularly like it as he explains WHY each component is required rather than just diving into the detail - which he makes an excellent job of too. ...

Matt's written an interesting article sharing his experience "from the coal face" gained during years of exerience advising the military and leading companies in writing more secure software. I share Matt's view that it's far less expensive to fix security...

Rodney Buike has written a detailed article about the importance of Physical security. I often talk about this topic myself as it's often depricated at the expense of the more technical aspects of security such as wireless, cryptography, biometrics et...

Blake has compiled an amazing collection of all of the support resources, newsgroups, how to articles, team blogs and tips and published it here ... This must have taken an amazing amount of time to review and research and is just about the most comprehensive...

Gordon has written an article explaining why MOM 2005 is like a Formula 1 racing car. It's a good analogy Read about it here...

This week, Brian has written about how to connect Smartphones to the Exchange server when the server has a digital certificate provided by a private authority. If you have a phone that has been locked by the provider, then you can't install any software...

Mark is a new contributor to the Industry Insiders forum, and has started his contribution with a really good article on how to use an LDAP query find the values you require, and then to create a mailbox quota report for mailboxes on his Exchange cluster...

This article was written by Mark Wilson . One of the joys of virtualisation is the flexibility afforded by the ability to copy virtual machine files around the network for backup purposes or just to create a new machine (especially with Microsoft's...

Dave McMahon wrote a brief guide, but it's still a long post so we've divided it up. The first part is now available . Part 2 will follow next week. In his own words: Dave McMahon (MVP, MCDBA, MCAD) has been involved with computers since college...

Dave McMahon wrote a brief guide, but it's still a long post so we've divided it up. The first part . has been available for a few days now. Part 2 is now available The third part will follow shortly.

Dennis has written an article which examines the role of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 and Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. Specifically Dennis observes that additional security controls are of limited use in isolation and that process procedure...

Andy Taylor A few years ago I was working for a major UK outsourcing company and I was involved with a key account within large UK organisations. I was given a project to upgrade a customers McAfee virus scanner to CA’s eTrust version 6 (like I...

In this article, Dan outlines vital considerations when planning and designing an Active Directory implementation. Dan covers the process end to end - from initial business decisions such as why you are undertaking the implementation, to high level...

David has written an article and discusses operational and business unit reporting within the realm of Exchange management reporting, with examples of Key Performance Indicators. He touches on solutions from Microsoft and Quest software which provide...

I've been in contact with Paul Stringfellow for quite some time. He comments on my blog regularly, sends me mails enthusing about technology, or a blog post, or just contacts me with some suggestions for postings. I was really pleased when he mailed me...

Stephen works with a lot of customers who ask him about SharePoint, and the sort of questions that they should ask candidates at interviews in order to demonstrate what they know about the product and their strengths in particular areas. He's put together...

Rodney Buike has written a thought provoking article about the challenges of locking down production systems whilst ensuring they still perform their intended business function. I'm sure that many of you who've worked in the field of Information Security...

Thanks to Adrian J. Beasley for providing yet another excellent article, this one's titled Software Restriction Policies and PowerShell Code Signing - Adrian provides a wealth of practical advice how to make the most of one of the most powerful yet under...

SharePoint has been a phenominal success as a product for Microsoft. It has successfully penetrated almost every industry as collaboration & portal platform. SharePoint's role in the enrichment of secondary education has been particularly strong....

Adrian J. Beasley has provided us with another excellent article titled A General Defence Against Injection Attacks on Websites written in his inimitable fashion tackling the challenging subject of how to validate user input.

It's about time there were a few business intelligence posts on Industry Insiders so I am pleased to get an article about the Microsoft BI and the importance of users in form Jennifer Stirrup from Aspective - a Vodafone company. Jennifer has over ten...

Jennifer Stirrup from Aspective has written another great business intelligence article for us on her experiences of presenting data in SharePoint . Jennifer rightly points out that getting the numbers right is not enough, easy to understand and compelling...