ashleyknowles

Category: Microsoft

  • TMG 2010 – Export Some, Not All

    Quick heads up. In TMG 2010, in the Toolbox sidebar, if you run “Export All” on a Network Object (e.g. Domain Name Sets or URL Sets), it doesn’t export “all”. This function exports “all objects that are currently assigned to a rule”. Not “all” in the English sense, everything, all encompassing, etc etc. To re-iterate,…

  • WPAD & Proxy Timeout Issue

    If you’ve been following, I’ve recently been playing with Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, the “new” ISA Server. Now, for all intensive purposes, everything is configured correctly. There’s a virtual IP for the proxy array (let’s say, 192.168.0.10), and the WPAD file is published, and contains the IP addresses of both proxies (let’s say, 192.168.0.11…

  • WSUS, TMG & WPAD – Making the Proxy Bypass List Work!

    I got tasked with a problem today which was plain weird… New servers being deployed, are unable to contact the WSUS distribution point to check for updates. The file C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log show the following errors: 2010-11-23 11:03:45:106 800 634 Misc WARNING: SendRequest failed with hr = 80072ee2. Proxy List used: Bypass List used : <(null)> Auth…

  • Office 2011 for Mac

    Plain and simple. Office 2008 on the Mac sucks. Yeah, I can edit my documents just fine, but it still sucks. Office 2007 in Windows introduced the “ribbon” bar, something I’ve accustomed to and grown to like, whereas Office 2008 for Mac, adds these panels on the right hand side of your screen, similar to…

  • Forefront TMG Stuff

    http://www.isascripts.org/ – a bunch of handy scripts by a security consultant named Jason Fossen Microsoft tools for TMG 2010 – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8809cfda-2ee1-4e67-b993-6f9a20e08607&displaylang=en Technet Doco for TMG 2010 – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff355324.aspx Jim Harrison’s list of tools for TMG2010 – http://www.isatools.org/tools.asp?Context=TMG2010 Microsoft ISA Blog – http://blogs.technet.com/b/isablog/

  • Windows Event Logs to Syslog – Update

    I came across this site earlier, seems to have a good amount of resources linked for anyone looking to implement Windows event log to syslog. http://www.loganalysis.org/windows-to-syslog/ There’s not much in terms of documentation, but it lists a number of tools which may help people in implementing this. Good luck! EDIT: Seems in linking to this,…

  • Outlook 2010 + Social Networks

    I thought this was super massive awesome cool plus plus!!!!!1111oneoneone I just installed the Office 2010 beta, and jumped in to my email quickly to grab a call. When I went to reply to an email, I noticed a little bar, similar to the “security” bar you get at the top of Internet Explorer, at…

  • Server Recovery with Acronis

    My boss forwarded me some emails from one of our client’s servers, dead disk, the usual. Get to the server, and it’s got nothing on the screen, typical… Reboot, no logical disks configured on the pov Promise RAID controller… Great. Luckily for us, we run Acronis TrueImage on this client’s servers, which practically does a…

  • Exchange 2003 SMTP DATA command bug

    This is an extract from a log file I’m looking at right now for an Exchange 2003 SMTP service… I sure as hell hope there’s just a patch missing, otherwise, this could be one NASTY bug. It appears as if the DATA section of the SMTP session has been escaped, possibly by inclusion of the…