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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 5:16 PM

ISA Server 2006 has been approved for Common Criteria EAL4+ certification

The certification status has been posted on the BSI website stating that ISA Server 2006 has been approved for Common Criteria EAL4+ certification . This is an important achievement for the product as this level of certification is mandated for many government
Posted by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
Monday, June 25, 2007 4:19 PM

How to quickly find all the voicemail messages in your Exchange Unified Communications Inbox

Microsoft Ltd recently implemented the Unified Communications features of Exchange 2007 resulting in voicemail messages for our conventional desk phones being received as email messages with audio attachments. Following two weeks holiday I wanted to filter
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Monday, June 25, 2007 3:55 PM

How to become a Security Guru - do you seek perfection or good enough?

Errata Security includes an interesting post titled " How to become a security guru " which discusses the the tendancy for "guru's" to seek perfect rather than "good enough" solutions to problems thereby alienating themselves from those they seek to influence.I've
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Monday, June 25, 2007 11:27 AM

Beware - Cookies are addictive!

I picked up a couple of packets of cookies whilst in France to share with my colleagues. A few minutes ago I opened up both packets (one chocolate and one plain) and sent an email out to the department asking people to help themseleves. It's a good thing
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Monday, June 25, 2007 11:24 AM

Another day, another scam - my post was incorrect, the message titled "Reminder: Important changes to PayPal Accounts in the European Union" is NOT a Phishing Email

My apologies to PayPal - my post was incorrect - the email titled "Reminder: Important changes to PayPal" was not a Phishing email. Thanks to Rab for correcting me. Rab sent a copy of the email to spoof@paypal.com who verified that it was a valid message.
Posted by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:36 PM

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 provides the means to easily create and manage wikis within your intranet

There's a nice introductory article titled Wiki While You Work that was written by Mauro Cardarelli for TechNet Magazine . Mauro's article discusses the problem space and how you can take advantage of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007's WIKI
Posted by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
Monday, June 11, 2007 11:12 AM

How to rebuild a machine that was encrypted via Windows Vista's Bitlocker feature by someone else

If you are given a machine by a colleague that they no longer need and wish to re-install it then encountering the "This machine was encrypted with Bitlocker" (not the exact words) screen at the start of the boot is not the greatest experience. Assuming
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Friday, June 08, 2007 6:00 PM

The Out of Office feature is so much better in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 than previous versions

*Amendment - thanks to those of you who commented that you require Exchange Server 2007 to take advantage of the functionality I discuss in Outlook 2007* I'm about to head out on holiday for a couple of weeks and have used the Out of Office feature of
Posted by Steve Lamb | 7 Comments
Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:39 AM

HTC have released the beautiful "touch" mobile device- who on Earth would want an iPhone?!

I played with a HTC Touch device a few moments ago - it's beautiful! It's slim, light, has a good battery life and a large vibrant touch screen plus 3G ( thanks Arthur!) too. Its powered by Windows Mobile 6 so is easy to us and has a wealth of built in
Posted by Steve Lamb | 6 Comments
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:12 PM

Ooh goodness - my Paypal account has been flagged!

Yes folks it's another attempted scam. There's a link to an explictly hardcoded IP address that I'm supposed to visit due to "additonal security measures". Something that may catch people out is that the source email address has been spoofed to be a plausible
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:29 PM

The Security Guard's face was a picture when I arrived at work on a skateboard!

It's a beautiful Summer's day in England today and like many people I made the most of my lunch break by heading outdoors. I needed to pick something up from a shop that's about a five minute drive from our office so I decided to use an unusual means
Posted by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:33 AM

It's easy to find encrypted areas of hard disk as illustrated by DiskScape Drive Analysis

At recent TechNet events I've demonstrated a tool named DiskScape to show quite how easy it is to programmatically find areas of encrypted data on a hard disk. Specifically I've used it to show visually where I've applied Windows Vista's BitLocker disk
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:59 AM

This made me smile - book publisher steals Google laptops

I'm not advocating stealing as an acceptable behaviour before anyone asks! The Register posted a story about the CEO of a book publisher (Richard Charkin) and colleague stealing a couple of laptops from a Google stand. The machines weren't actually taken
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Monday, June 04, 2007 5:50 PM

How to set up "Presenter View" in Powerpoint

Earlier this afternoon I helped a friend (Tony) with a couple of Microsoft Outlook problems (mainly due to the immense size of his .pst file!) when I happened to show him a couple tricks of the trade. Tony has used Microsoft Powerpoint to present to audiences
Posted by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
 
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