The Technical Reference provides essential technical information about MIIS 2003.
http://tinyurl.com/95vvg
This white paper contains information about configuring and using the Windows Installer Source Location Management feature for Systems Management Server 2003.
Updated July 14th. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32f40db4-6706-4e62-b867-aa1d332b6403&DisplayLang=en
The Microsoft Windows Active Directory Management Pack provides forest-wide monitoring of your Active Directory service and its required subsystems (7/13/2005).
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3565865
The Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is used to detect security bulletins not covered by MBSA, including MS04-028, February 2005 bulletins, and future security bulletins that are exceptions to MBSA.
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3565864
Microsoft has released a new tool designed to help enterprises detect updates provided with the Microsoft Security Bulletins released June 14, 2005. This tool is a command line scanning tool built for the sole purpose of helping customers determine systems that may need security updates provided with the released bulletins (7/12/2005).
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3565863
Everyone is on the Patch Management, Virus, Vulnerability, Threat Assessment, Security Blah, Blah, Blah bandwagon. Don't get me wrong - it's a vital part of your organization's overall management strategy. However, when companies start using the whole 'patch management' veribage to sell products that are in no way, shape or form related to patching systems well that just pisses me off. Latest case: Executive Software's Diskeeper 9. In the company's latest series of print advertisements they suggest that fragmented disk drives are the bigger threat to desktop systems. Their argument? “What's really at stake? Why do we protect against viruses? Think about it. A virus causes a computer to slow down or stop, rendering the system less usuable.” The article-like advertisement goes on to say that “disk fragmentation causes the same damage as a virus”!!!
What are these marketing ninnies smoking? The reason that we protect so heavily is because one infected system on our corporate networks can easily spread the virus to the entire organization - literally within minutes - rendering the ENTIRE COMPANY USELESS. Not just one system. We won't even discuss the financial impacts of this happening to a publicly held company or how devistating it can be to a relationship with a third-party when you also infect their systems.
This, you Executive Software MORONS, is why we protect against viruses.
Today at Tech•Ed 2005 Europe, Microsoft Corp.’s annual flagship European technical education conference for developers and IT professionals, Sybari Software Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, announced general availability of the Sybari Antigen management pack for Microsoft® Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. The management pack provides critical performance and availability data through the MOM 2005 console for Sybari’s Antigen for Microsoft Exchange and Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and enables IT administrators to rapidly identify and manage potential threats to the security of their network.
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As many of you are aware, I recently relocated to Redmond, Washington to take a position as Infrastructure Practice Principle for Interlink Group, Inc. Now that the move is over, I've settled into the area and have taken on the new role, you can expect to see more activity here and with many of the other sites I contribute to.