Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

Hooray…  Build 5365 is the first build since mid-year last year that is stable enough on my particular hardware that I can at least run it.  (Past builds would refuse to see my network card or if they did, would run so slowly that is was impossible to use).  I’ll try to run 5365 in a [...]

OK, for all of you out there who work in a small business environment (or a “stingy” company, IT-wise), I have a recommendation for you on an excellent way to filter spam/virus email and even limited web traffic virus scanning - and best of all, it is free.
CopFilter (for the IPCop software firewall distribution)
From the [...]

From the “You Had Me At EHLO” (aka, the Exchange Team):
The Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) version 2.6 has been released.  Click here for the direct download as the ExBPA page hasn’t been updated from the 2.5 version as of yet.
Source:  You Had Me At EHLO 

Tags: ExBPA, Exchange

This is a rare Exchange posting, but with the release of MSFP ROM updates for Windows Mobile 5 Smartphones and Pocket PC Phones, Direct Push is now a reality.  However, there are some optimization tweaks that can be done that would extend the battery life of the smart phone devices, plus there are some caveats [...]

Microsoft is now matching VMWare in making it’s Virtual Server 2005 R2 product available for free download and usage.  This comes after VMWare released the Beta version of VMWare Server product (which also reached Beta 2 stage today) for free.
Virtualization is going to become a bigger part of the networking and computing infrastructure of the [...]

By the way, I have updated the Atom feed to the 1.0 spec.  Please let me know if you are having any difficulties with Atom support, as I am using a community supported upgrade to Wordpress to provide this.

I am going to make one big news update about what has been happening between now and my last post WAY back on February 18:
1. I underwent an outside network audit/assessment at the office. It was a learning experience for me - especially due to the way my office currently works. I’ll [...]