February 27, 2006
@ 09:58 AM

Need to configure memory settings for Exchange 2003?  Getting those "memory settings are not optimal for Exchange" in your Event log?

Microsoft KB article is very cryptic: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=815372

Here's a better summary:

http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/07/05/407330.aspx


 
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February 21, 2006
@ 03:00 PM

On Thursday, February 23rd, File Transfer Manager (FTM) 5.0 will be
released. When a new file transfer is initiated,
you will be asked to download the FTM 5.0 client. Existing downloads with
the FTM 4.0 will continue, only new downloads are affected.

What's new in FTM 5.0:
Multi-Segment Download Acceleration provides acceleration for high latency
Internet connections. Download acceleration is only used if a file is
greater than 2 MB and download acceleration is set to No Speed Limit in
FTM's options.
File verification. FTM 4.0 validated each data block as files were
transferred. FTM 5.0 goes one step further to verify file integrity by
validating the full file after it has been written to disk.

Download link:
http://transfers.ds.microsoft.com/ 
(MSI or ActiveX install available)


 
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IVM is a telephone answering machine, voice mail, call attendant, and interactive voice response (IVR) program for Windows. It connects to the phone using a standard voice modem, professional telephony board or even directly to a VoIP service.
This software is an effective voicemail, call attendant, info-line, audiotext or autodial solution for small to medium businesses. For example, IVM can redirect in-coming calls during office hours or act as a PC answer machine and take messages for a number of voice mail boxes after hours. All calls (including those answered by you) are logged with date, time and caller ID. The recorded messages can be played at any time, forwarded to an email address, accessed via the internet or, if necessary, saved for future reference.

IVM can redirect in-coming calls during office hours or take messages for a number of voice mail boxes after hours. All calls (including those answered by you) are logged with date, time and caller ID. The recorded messages can be played at any time, forwarded to an email address, accessed via the internet or, if necessary, saved for future reference.

IVM can also be used very simply as a computer answering machine. Just run the install file on your PC and it will be ready to answer calls. But, when you are ready, you can explore the advanced key response and programming options to create a sophisticated telephone interactive response system. You will find many exciting ways to use IVM to provide information, serve your customers and save time.

http://www.nch.com.au/ivm/

Tight.  Runs as system service with control interface.  Earlier versions were a bit sketchy, not properly handling terminal services logins on the box running the answering machine.  But version 3.0 onwards were great for me.  Emails you MP3 attachment.  Works great with decent hardware.


 
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Problem
After you run dcpromo to demote a Windows domain controller (DC) in your domain, the Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 MSExchangeAL service starts to log events 8026 and 8260 every 10 minutes. The events are as follows:
Event ID: 8026
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeAL
Event Category: LDAP Operations
Description: LDAP Bind was unsuccessful on directory <Fully Qualified Domain Name of Windows domain controller>for distinguished name ''. Directory returned error:[0x51] Server Down.


Event ID: 8260
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeAL
Event Category: Service Controller
Description: Could not open LDAP session to directory '<Fully Qualified Domain Name of Windows domain controller>' using local service credentials. Cannot access Address List configuration information. Make sure the server '<Fully Qualified Domain Name of Windows domain controller>' is running.

Solution
If you determine that the issue was caused by the demotion of a Windows domain controller, you can resolve this issue by following these steps:1. Open Exchange System Manager.
2. Expand the Recipients container, and then click Recipient Update Services.
3. Double-click each Recipient Update Service, and then change the Windows domain controller setting to the new Windows domain controller in the domain.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272552


 
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http://hellninjacommando.com/defilerpak/

The DefilerPak is a minimalist collection of video and audio codecs designed to keep you up to date with the latest developments


 
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February 5, 2006
@ 12:21 PM

http://plone.org/

Plone is powerful and flexible. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.

Plone is easy to use. The Plone Team includes usability experts who have made Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and maintain content.

Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a click-and-run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes.

Plone is international. The Plone interface has more than 50 language translations, and tools for managing multilingual content.

Plone is supported. There are close to a hundred developers in the Plone Development Team around the world, and hundreds of companies specializing in Plone development and support.

 
Plone is standard. Plone carefully follows standards for usability and accessibility. Plone pages are compliant with US Section 508, and the W3C's AA rating for accessibility, in addition to using best-practice web standards like XHTML and CSS.

Plone is Open Source. Plone is licensed under the GNU General Public License, the same license Linux uses. This gives you the right to use Plone without a license fee, and to improve upon the product.

Plone is extensible. There are many add-on products for Plone that add new features and content types. In addition, Plone can be scripted using web standard solutions and Open Source languages.

 
Plone is technology neutral. Plone can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD.

Plone is protected. The nonprofit Plone Foundation was formed in 2004 to promote the use of Plone around the world and protect the Plone IP and trademarks.

Plone is built using Zope, an object oriented application server. The language that drives Zope and Plone is Python - the agile language preferred by Google, NASA, Industrial Light and Magic and many others. Why? Because Python offers unprecedented programmer productivity.


 
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February 3, 2006
@ 11:38 AM

F-Force
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/f-force.zip
http://www.f-secure.com/tools/f-force.zip

Signatures for F-Force
http://download.f-secure.com/latest/latest.zip
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/updates/latest/latest.zip

F-Force  is  a free  malware  disinfection  utility  created  by  F-Secure
Corporation.

The F-Force utility  disinfects computers  infected with known variants of
the following malware:

 Agobot  (Backdoor.Win32.Agobot)
 Aimbot  (Backdoor.Win32.Aimbot)
 Bagle  (Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle, except .N, .O, .P, .Q, .R variants)
 Bozori  (Net-Worm.Win32.Bozori)
 Codbot  (Backdoor.Win32.Codbot)
 Dumaru  (Email-Worm.Win32.Dumaru)
 Fanbot  (Backdoor.Win32.Fanbot)
 Feebs  (Worm.Win32.Feebs)
 Forbot  (Backdoor.Win32.Forbot)
 IRCBot  (Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot)
 Mitglieder (Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Mitglieder or Trojan-Spy.Win32.Mitglieder)
 Mydoom  (Email-Worm.Win32.Mydoom)
 Mytob  (Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob)
 Netsky  (Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky)
 Padobot (Net-Worm.Win32.Padobot)
 Poebot  (Backdoor.Win32.Poebot)
 Rbot  (Backdoor.Win32.Rbot)
 SDBot  (Backdoor.Win32.SdBot)
 Spybot  (P2P-Worm.Win32.SpyBot)
 Wootbot (Backdoor.Win32.Wootbot)
 Zafi  (Email-Worm.Win32.Zafi)

Also the utility can remove the following malware:

 VB.bi  (Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi)
 Nyxem.e (Email-Worm.Win32.Nyxem.e)

In addition the F-Force utility detects EICAR test file.

The F-Force  utility might be able  disinfect computers  that are infected
with new variants of these backdoors and worms, however disinfection  will
only work if these variants are detected generically by AVP engine.

The F-Force utility disinfects Windows HOSTS file by removing entries that
were added by malware.  In addition the utility automatically restores the
default EXE file startup string in case it was modified by malware.

The F-Force  utility creates  a log  file  named  F-FORCE.LOG  in the root
Windows  directory  (usually C:\WINDOWS).  The log file  is appended every
time the F-Force utility is run.

 


 
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The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Web Administration tool enables administrators to manage the process of remotely erasing lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised mobile devices.

By using the Exchange Server ActiveSync Web Administration Web tool, administrators can perform the following actions:
• View a list of all devices that are being used by any enterprise user
• Select/De-select devices to be remotely erased
• View the status of pending remote erase requests for each device
• View a transaction log that indicates which administrators have issued remote erase commands, in addition to the devices those commands pertained to

The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Web Administration Tool is designed for use With Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and compatible mobile devices.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e6851d23-d145-4dbf-a2cc-e0b4c6301453&displaylang=en


 
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