December 2005 - Posts

At The Beach
21 December 05 05:14 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

Out of office until Jan 19. Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Slow DNS = Slow Proxy (or: How To Skip Name Resolution)
19 December 05 03:08 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Today's tip: When your rules require any degree of name resolution (which typically means that an access, routing or publishing rule is filtered by some kind of computer or domain set), you're a slave to the speed of DNS' response, at least until the Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking, Security

ISA Server and RADIUS: Two Domains And No Trust, But This Time ISA's A Member Of One
15 December 05 05:54 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Following on from yesterday's post where the ISA Server wasn't a member of either domain , this time we're looking at how you'd configure a more seamless (eg, not prompted for credentials left and right) experience for the users in Domain A, while making Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking, Security

ISA Server and RADIUS: Two Domains And No Trust
14 December 05 04:47 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

A question from Ashok: I've been trying to find out if one can use RADIUS to authenticate web proxy clients on another domain that is not a member of ISA domain. So I have an ISA 2004 Std with SP1 on domain A, say, and then have another internal network Read More...

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Dare Obasanjo: MetaWeblog API Now on MSN Spaces
13 December 05 11:00 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

From Dare: MSN or Windows Live Spaces is now postable from blogging tools , cunningly using the "secret word" technique rather than trying to bolt Passport into the scheme. Our implementation of the MetaWeblog API for MSN Spaces is now publicly available. Read More...

Filed under: Developery, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

ISABPA: The ISA Server Best Practices Analyzer
12 December 05 07:02 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

ISABPA - now Out There. Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking, Security

Vocab Corner: Bing
06 December 05 03:54 PM | tristank | 5 Comments   

Another wonderful word suggestion to add to your custom.dic, from the mind that brought you " Fnjorkel ". The Suggestion IM has become ubiquitous, but there's no widely accepted way of easily saying "IM me" in a non-vendor-specific manner without using Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, ISA Server, Networking

A Change Is As Good As A Holiday
06 December 05 10:48 AM | tristank | 3 Comments   

And just to be on the safe side, I'm going to "nuke the site from orbit" and do both. I'm taking a nice, long Christmas vacation (almost a month! ), bits of which will actually be spent outdoors at a beach (I know, I feel like I'm letting the side down Read More...

Filed under: Developery, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature