SBS FAQ - Wayne Small - SBS MVP : TrendMicro

Trend Micro WFBS 5.1 and 5.0 Patches

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:35:30 GMT

Body: Last week Trend announced the release of a number of patches for their Worry Free Business Security products targeted at the SMB market. These patches are both a rollup of all accumulative patches plus an additional patch that did not quite make...(read more)

Upgrading to Trend WFBS 5.1?

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:46:41 GMT

Body: If you are upgrading to Trend Worry-Free Business Security 5.1 and you are coming from their v5.0 product then you will want to go and install Patch 2 first. Patch 2 resolves a few issues in 5.0 that caused the upgrade to 5.1 to fail. Best Practice...(read more)

Trend WFBS 5.1 Beta coming - SBS/EBS support

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:17:04 GMT

Body: Trend have just released the beta for the 5.1 release of Worry-Free Business Security. The major components of this release are; What’s new in Worry-Free Business Security™ v5.1? Additional Microsoft Operating System support: Microsoft Small Business...(read more)

Blocking UPS SPAM Mail

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:16:16 GMT

Body: I use TrendMicros InterScan Messaging Hosted Security service as part of Worry-Free Business Security Advanced to provide front line SPAM and Malware detection to all mail coming into my family domain and to the sbsfaq.com domain. I've been...(read more)

SPAM Filtering Options in Trend Worry-Free Business Security

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:52:50 GMT

Body: With the release of Trends WFBS 5.0 (formerly known as CS and CSM Security) Trend have upgraded the Antispam components in a number of ways. For some this is causing some confusion. Hopefully I can help resolve that. When you purchase WFBS Advanced...(read more)

Trend WFBS 5.0 Errors after installation

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:55:10 GMT

Body: I've had a few people mention to me that after they've installed the latest Trend Worry Free Business Security 5.0 on their SBS servers that they have had some new errors in their event logs. I've not seen this in the upgrades that I've...(read more)

Trend WFBS 5.0 Blocks Malware...

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:40:20 GMT

Body: This week at the Perth SMB IT Professionals Group , Sandi Hardmeirer, used my laptop to demonstrate ways that potential spyware attacks could take place on unsuspecting users without them even clicking on links in a web page. She showed us a video...(read more)

Trend Training coming to a city near you.

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:44:35 GMT

Body: This only applies for my Australian and New Zealand readers, but if you've not gotten the email from Trend already, check out below for training coming to a city near you. This includes training on the upcoming CSM for SMB v5.0 (aka WFBS v5...(read more)

Trend release new engine VSAPI 8.7

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:00:07 GMT

Body: Trend have announced that they are releasing a new engine v8.7 which addresses a number of improvements to overcome resource issues that occurred some time back as well as implementing new features. The new engine will automatically download and...(read more)

Trend Taiwan - Day 5

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:22:04 GMT

Body: Ok - so I'm posting this a day late :-) Friday was my last day at Trend. It was a week that I really enjoyed. I met lots of new people and got the unique chance to express directly to these people about all the things that matter to us in the...(read more)

Trend Taiwan - Day 4

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:06:08 GMT

Body: Well - today I spend time with the QA department. Kind funny really because last night the team released the external beta of WFBS v5.0 (aka CSM 5.0). Max and Eric from the QA team walked me through the development cycle from a QA perspective. I...(read more)

Trend Taiwan - Day 3

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:21:59 GMT

Body: Ok - so today is the day I spend with the Research and Development team. I arrived at the office to find that the lead for the team has pulled an all nighter and only left at 7am - I guess this is the real world now huh :-) So Jonas is my lead today...(read more)

Trend Taiwan - Day 2

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:24:55 GMT

Body: Today I spent time with the User Interface team talking to them about how the product looks and how they expose features of the product to us. I've seen some very cool previews of things to come and taken a lot of the feedback that people have...(read more)

Trend Taiwan - Day 1

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:10:37 GMT

Body: So today I started my one week work with Trend here in Taipei. I arrived last night after a long flight from Sydney via Hong Kong and finally got into my room around midnight. Unfortunately the guy and gal next door were not ready to go to bed and...(read more)

Off to work for Trend in Taiwan

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:50:13 GMT

Body: Yes - those that know me know that I am a big fan of Trend Micro products in the SMB Space. I've used their products for our clients for about 5 or so years now and have been pretty happy with not only the product, but the company and the people...(read more)

Trend CSM 5.0 Features & Beta Program

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:26:57 GMT

Body: Shortly I'll be testing out Trends new version of Client Server Messaging Security for SMB (CSM). The current version is 3.6. The new version will have a new name, taking on the name from the Worry-Free product line. The new product will be...(read more)

Trend Worry Free Managed Security Services Playbook

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:02:38 GMT

Body: Not sure if many of you know about this cool offering from Trend. It's a guide written by managed services guru Amy Luby on how to maximise your Managed Services offering using Trends Worry Free Management console for CSM for SMB. It's a...(read more)

Trend Pattern File Problems - blown out of proportion?

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:57:17 GMT

Body: I've heard a number of people express concern that "Trend have had many issues with their pattern files like we had this week with the 995 pattern file..." and others similar expressing the suggestion that Trend have had "major...(read more)

Trend CSM - Pattern file 997 released

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:03:06 GMT

Body: Things are moving quickly this morning - pattern file 997 has been released which has been suggested fixes the issues experienced with the 995 file. If you have rolled back, wait for a bit and see if the 997 does indeed resolve the issues. If you...(read more)

Trend CSM - How to rollback a pattern file

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:56:15 GMT

Body: Trend CSM has the ability to rollback a pattern file from it's centralised console in order to deal with issues such as the one being experienced with the 995 pattern file released earlier today. To rollback the pattern file, do the following;...(read more)