Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

I just have spent a few more hours using Vista in a quasi-production type environment…
What I like:

SafeDocs (Automatic Backup). I’m hoping it would be configurable, especially via Group Policy - but I haven’t gotten to that stage yet
The new Control Panel Interface - it is much more functional than the default one on Windows [...]

Well, most of y’all probably already know that Windows Vista (although I will always think of it as Longhorn) Beta 1 was released this afternoon. I finished the download off of MSDN this evening (my beta access is Active, but it doesn’t allow me to do anything yet) and have spent the past two [...]

The folks over at CastleCops have posted a new freeware tool called MyNetwork that will basically dump the network configuration on your computer to a txt file.
It isn’t that big of a deal, but it is very helpful when troubleshooting non-network literate folks (like friends or family).
Click here for the article and here for the [...]

Microsoft released a security bulletin this past weekend concerning a vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol that may lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.. Note that this vulnerability will not allow remote access to your computer.
At the present time, there is no hotfix or patch to correct this vulnerability.
From the bulletin:

In which [...]

Over at Technet, Steve Riley has a good discussion on security and “trustworthy administrators.” As a network administrator for a mid-sized business, I can agree with many of his points.
I will add more to this later today… (Time to get back to work)
Tags: Security, TrustworthyComputing

If you are running a UNIX variant out there - note that there are two fairly serious security flaw in the Kerberos authentication scheme…
Note that this doesn’t affect the Microsoft Kerberos variant…
See here for more information and here for the advisories…

Tags: Kerberos

From the public groups:
Check out this new Web page that provides fast answers to common questions
about the Internet Authentication Service (IAS), the Windows implementation
of a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server and proxy.
IAS provides authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) for
different types of network connections such as remote access (dial-up and
virtual private network) and 802.11 [...]

Stephen Toulouse has some pretty good advice in his open letter for Sven Jaschan (creator of the Sasser virus)
(Off-Topic: This blog is the first one I have ever seen being run on Sharepoint…. That is weird…)

Tags: Sasser, Jaschan

This month’s Cable Guy article is an overview of NAP (Network Access Protection), which stands for Network Access Protection. NAP is set to be included “server”-wise in the Longhorn Server release (parts of it was supposed to be in R2, but they were dropped a few months back), and client wise in Windows XP [...]