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Every Anti-Virus has a mechanism called tamper protection that helps administrator keep users from mishandling there antivirus settings and services. Forefront Client Security only offers basic control over what the user can or cannot do with the FCS Client Console on his client machine. What the FCS System doesn’t provide is a built-in mechanism to protect FCS services from being stopped or prevent FCS from being removed by the user. It’s true that some of these are possible to prevent by not giving...
Hot off the presses, Microsoft IT (aka MSIT) has published a case study around their use of Network Access Protection (aka NAP) --enabled with Windows Server 2008 -- to improve security and host policy compliance on our huge network. Microsoft Improves Security Policy Compliance with Network Access Protection Here's a brief synopsis of the paper: With 71,000 highly mobile users worldwide, Microsoft wanted a new way to measure and improve its 300,000+ client computers’ compliance with corporate...
I've recently posted about David Davis's article about How to configure the new Windows Server 2008 advanced firewall MMC snap-in . this week, windowsnetworking.com 's David Davis has published a new article that guides you step by step thorugh the configuration of a windows 2008 Advanced Firewall (very similar to the one in Vista) using NETSH CLI. Netsh advfirewall is the command line tool used for configuring the new Windows 2008 Server Advanced Firewall. Why use the CLI interface to...
NAP Team's Jeff Sigman (Senior Program Manager) has posted on the NAP Blog some Q&A regarding the XP SP3 Impemntation with network access protection. Questions Jeff’s (brilliant) Answers Q: How do I get a copy of the BETA? While it is on MSConnect, it is easier just to email me to get a copy. I have US-English and Language Neutral versions from the April 2007 Beta release. Remember, this is a BETA and is not officially supported (i.e. no QFEs); see XP SP3 info below. Q: How will this actually...
The new features of the Windows Server 2008 Advanced Firewall and how to configure this powerful host-based firewall using the new MMC snap-in. Since its inception, the Windows Server 2003 SP1 firewall has been a basic, inbound-only, host based, stateful firewall. With Windows Server 2008, the built-in firewall has been dramatically improved. want to learn how to utilize this great new ability, read more on David Davis's new guide for configuring the new Windows Server 2008 advanced firewall...
Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0) is Microsoft’s latest version of their web server. IIS has been included with Windows Server since Windows 2000 Server as a Windows Component and since Windows NT as an option. IIS 7.0 is available with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, which is scheduled for release in Q1 2008. IIS 7.0 has gone through a major overhaul and has been completely redesigned from scratch. This has been done to make the most flexible and secure platform for web and application...
Allthough most of this is not quite new, I've only recently discovered this article on the windows server 2008 home page that explains quite well the "what's new" features in 2008... Microsoft Identity and Access solutions are a set of platform technologies and products designed to help organizations manage user identities and associated access privileges. With a focus on security and ease of use, these solutions help businesses boost productivity, reduce IT costs, and eliminate the complexity of...
I've was recently contacted by several people who have encountered the following messege in Windows Vista: This issue is because services that runs in session0 run separately from the user’s session and therefore can't display popups directly to the user. in my exploration for the solution to that one, i've encounted a post at Brad Rutkowski's Blog that talks and explains exactly that: "Windows Vista isolates services in Session 0 and runs applications in other sessions, so services are protected...
In previous versions of Active Directory ( AD ) we had only one password and account lockout policy for the entire domain. Some companies had to use multiple domains to place different password policies on different users; others had to develop their own password filters or buy third party solutions. With Windows Server 2008 we have the option to specify different password policies for different users and groups “out-of-the-box”. In short the new functionality, referred to as “Granular Password Settings...
although I am usually into matters of security, since I am also a management and technofreak, a colleague of mine pointed me to this really cool screencast at Kevin Remde's IT Pro WebLog . the screencast shows off some exciting new technologies coming in the next version of Windows Server (still codename "Longhorn"). Can you say "8 core"? "8 core?!" I knew you could. Video: Longhorn - Windows Server Virtualization for the original post Kevin Remde's IT Pro WebLog . for an interview by Kevin speaking...