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Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta announced

Published Thu, Feb 9 2012 9:21 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta, a recovery tool that can help you start an infected PC and perform an offline scan to help identify and remove rootkits and other advanced malware. In addition, Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta can be...

Filed under: General, Disaster Recovery, Tools, Windows Client, Security

Microsoft Exchange PST Capture

Published Tue, Jan 31 2012 9:20 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Now it is available. Discover PST files on your network and import it automatically into users mailboxes On-Premise or Exchange Online. Download here , and be able to stay compliant and follow your achiving and retention rules.  

Filed under: General, Exchange, Windows Server, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Hosting, Microsoft Online Services, Managed Services, Tools, Data Protection Manager, Migration, Outlook, Windows Client, Security, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing

DNS Server service refuse name resolution on Windows Server 2008 R2

Published Fri, Jan 6 2012 11:54 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

It has been already from nearly two years ago, that under certain circumstances DNS Server service on Windows Server 2008 R2 refuse to resolve internet domain name addresses. This issue occurs if Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS Server is used without forwarders...

Filed under: General, Exchange, Windows Server, SharePoint, TMG, UAG, Remote Desktop Services, ISA Server, Hosting, Microsoft Online Services, Microsoft Provisioning Services, WSUS, UM, OCS, Active Directory, PKI, Forefront, Network Services, Outlook, DNS, Windows Client, Security, Windows Live Essentials, Internet Explorer, IIS, SonicWall

Microsoft Windows win32k.sys Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Published Fri, Dec 23 2011 14:37 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via e...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Tools, Windows Client, Security, Internet Explorer

Pixelated, choppy, or distorted Blu-ray replay issue with MS Security Update

Published Mon, Oct 3 2011 20:01 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

When you playing newley released Blu-ray Disks from 20th Centrury Fox, this may correlate with the MS11-063 Security Update for Windows 7 64-bit. It could be that also other publishers of Blu-ray disk products can be affected. Users reporting pixelated...

Filed under: General, WSUS, Windows Client, Security

Secure Access to your Cloud Services

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 17:06 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Moving to the Cloud is going on and so we will have more and more On-Premise and Cloud environments living site by site. Securing access to Cloud Services will be more relevant for the future. A great article on this topic has been published by Yuri Diogenes...

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Mobile, System Center, SCVMM, DirectAccess, TMG, ISA Server, Hosting, Microsoft Online Services, Managed Services, Microsoft Provisioning Services, Office, UM, OCS, Migration, PKI, Certificate Service, Forefront, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, Outlook, High Availability, Business Intelligence, Dynamics, CRM, DNS, Windows Client, BizTalk, Security, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, Internet Explorer

Windows Server 2008 R2 refuse to resolve external FQDN

Published Fri, Oct 8 2010 19:07 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

No, it is not the dot in the hierachy on DNS Server which makes him a Root DNS. So looking for this is obvious. And what if you find, that DNS Root Servers are listed and forwarders are able to ping, but recursive name resolution still doesn’t work. When...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Active Directory, Network Services, DNS, Windows Client, Security

Win7 and Windows Server 2008 and R2 SMBv2 and v2.1 and Riverbed

Published Mon, Sep 6 2010 16:12 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Who designs distributed network infrastructures with high bandwidth connected sites and accelerates traffic with Riverbed appliances will loose many nice communication features comming with WinVista or Win7 and Windows Server Systems 2008 and 2008R2....

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Active Directory, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, Windows Client, DFS, Security

Microsoft Answers regarding DLL-preloading remote attack vector

Published Wed, Sep 1 2010 10:20 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

The Microsoft Security Research and Defense Team is answering several questions regarding DLL-preloading remote attack vector. http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2010/08/31/an-update-on-the-dll-preloading-remote-attack-vector.aspx  

Filed under: General, Windows Server, SharePoint, Office, Outlook, Windows Client, Security