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Windows R2 sharepoint services documentation

I've been looking through the huge amount of documentation about windows 2003 R2 when i came to this list of links about Sharepoint Services, and as this falls in my technology area, not John's, I'm including it here for reference.  The links all

Detecting Stealth Software

My blog content mole pointed me to this report which has just been released . Detecting Stealth Software with Strider GhostBuster Yi-Min Wang; Doug Beck; Binh Vo; Roussi Roussev; Chad Verbowski February 2005 Stealth malware programs that silently

Securing MOM 2005

I had a question from Tony over the weekend (he must have had a busy time rolling out MOM!) and he was asking how some security questions.  They had 2 management groups which they planned to connect to the central group using the MOM to MOM product

SMS 2003 running in Virtual Server

Just noticed this article which states that SMS 2003 server roles are not supported when running in guest operating systems something to watch out for.....  

Deploy SharePoint for access from the Internet

You can set up a team site so that your colleagues can access from the Internet via a browser.  I have my own site which allows me to share files with people.  I find it useful when I need to get a large powerpoint presentation to

Reducing MOM traffic between client and server

I'm in the middle of an email dialogue with a customer who is deploying MOM using the Deployment guide and had some questions on advanced MOM deployment and deployment of Agents across slow links. He was concerned about setting the Agent

Securing Instant Messaging with LCS 2005

I had to talk to a journalist recently about the massive rise in the use of Instant Messaging as a corporate tool, and the risk of intellectual property (IP) leaving the company as people chatted to their friends using MSN Messenger with the possible

mailbox size reports for Exchange 2003

Paul mailed me after my TechNet presentation to ask if we had any solutions for producing statistics for mailbox usage, size of mailboxes etc. He'd had a look around and had a look at Quest MessageStats but was asking if we had anything that would do

Checklist for upgrading to SMS 2003 SP1

Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Upgrade Checklist This document outlines the steps you should take to upgrade from Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to Microsoft SMS 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1).  For a complete

Common ports used by Exchange

I can never remember most of the ports that Exchange uses - apart from Ports 25(SMTP), 389 (LDAP) and 443(SSL) which seemed to be burned into my brain somehow.  It's funny, as I used to be able to remember almost all of the ports in the file in NT4's

MOM 2005 Management Pack Documentation for Active Directory in French, German and Japanese

Now released: This document provides a detailed technical reference for Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005.  ADMP is designed for administrators who are responsible for maintaining a healthy Active

Optimising your Storage architecture for Exchange 2003

Yes we all know that Exchange likes I/O, lots of it.  And I've been telling customers for ages, spindles spindles spindles whilst waving my finger in the air knowledgeably, and chatting confidently about LUNs and SANS.  Well, I've found this
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Exchange 2003 messaging security

I was reading a dicsussion thread about a customer who has an interesting problem concenring messaging security in Exchange:  They needed to find information on how to use Window 2003 Certificate Authority to auto install digital certificates
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Exchange 2003 message encryption

I've been asked about all of the security features that Exchange 2003 uses and also how we secure our messaging environment.  I blogged about the resources available at my presentation last week , but I've found an amazing set of security resources
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SMS 2003 Database schema information

I often get asked where information about our SMS internal database is published.  This KB article explains why the schema isn't published.  You can have a look at the SMS 2003 SDK for info on the schema and check out Ron and Steve's
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