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Strong authentication using your Brain : IAG and Gridsure.

Gridsure, a UK company, has created a very nice way to provide strong authentication. Strong authentication combines what you know (login, password) and what you have (something physical). In the long list of strong authentication mechanisms we know Smartacards, Read More...

BPOS and DNS Configuration : warning if your domain is at Gandi

Recently, I have decided to evaluate BPOS (Business Productivity Online Services), the Hosted offer of Microsoft. Basically, I want to use Exchange to host my personnal mail (OWA and Antivirus/Antispam) and also use Sharepoint/MOSS. With BPOS, you “rent” Read More...

IAG KCD breaking due to missing “keep-alive” header. Why ?

A few days ago, I was working with Fadhel Ben Brahem, one of our IAG experts working for Dictao, a Microsoft Partner. IAG was implemented in a very complex LAN/Switches/LoadBalancer environnent. The goal, the failure The goal of our Proof Of Concept was Read More...

Unknown devide error when runing IAG Virtual Lab with “Windows Virtual PC” on Windows 7 RTM

I recently upgraded my machine to Windows 7 RTM, and have decided to also install the next version of Virtual PC named “Windows Virtual PC (WVPC)”. I am using a lot the Microsoft IAG Virtual Lab (downloadable online) for my day to day work (demo, dev, Read More...

How to request for assistance when a Web Application is causing problems through IAG/UAG

On my blog, I have created a dedicated section (TAG = howTo-Filters) for IAG application filters. Every time I have to face a problem with a web application, I create a post on my blog, try to share the approach I used to identify the problem, and of Read More...

Hello Middle East and Africa, bye bye CEE

Last year I had a lot of pleasure to work for the Central and Eastern Europe Region. I had the opportunity to visit several countries and collaborate with partners and customers. What a great experience. This year I will be working for Middle East and Read More...

H1N1 and mobility : how to quickly implement a remote access solution

In my day to day activity, I frequently have to discuss with customers and partners about technology around mobility and security. In the last 4 weeks I had a lot of requests from customers in the context of H1N1 disease, this is why I created this post. Read More...

Introduction to application reverse engineering : The CWA (Communicator Web Access) R2 case.

By Lucimara Desiderá (MS Consultant, São Paulo) & Frédéric ESNOUF (MS Pre-sales IDA, Paris) Introduction Intelligent Application Gateway is a very powerful remote access solution which provides a wide range of technologies such as VPN, VPN/SSL, Port Read More...