Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

From the NAP (Network Access Protection) weblog:
TechNet Webcast: Network Access Protection for Windows Server Codename “Longhorn” and Windows Vista (Level 200)
Start Time:         Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
End Time:         Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:30 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Viruses, worms, and malware are a costly [...]

This bit of news is a bit old (on the 5th of May), but there hasn’t been much posted in the blogosphere about it…
VMWare Server Beta 3 has been posted and is available for download.
Click here for the download.

Tags: VMWARE

OK - another Exchange tool to keep in the back of your mind in case you should ever need it (although you can do everything this tool does manually at the command line, but that is too much pain for me).
From the download site:
The Exchange Server Disaster Recovery Analyzer programmatically collects configuration data and header [...]

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 [...]

(from the newsgroups)
One of the more common issues that people are experiencing when trying to add a new Windows 2003 R2 Server on an existing Windows 2003/2000 based network is that the Active Directory schema needs to be updated.  This step is normally performed by running the adprep /forestprep command (a similar command is required [...]

It’s about time for me to add to the Network Toolkit series of postings….  This time, however, it is more a “security” item.
Some of you may have already found this tool as it has been around for a while now.  I used it more frequently in the past, but stopped when Windows XP 64 bit [...]

The second beta of Monad Shell has just been released to the public at MS Download Center… This requires .NET Frameworks Beta 2, so those of you running more recent CTP builds of the Frameworks may be out of luck…
Click here for Monad Shell Beta 2. (Registration Required)
Click here for the .NET Frameworks [...]

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 [...]

OK, while I was browsing Sourceforge this evening, I came across a new release for a tool that I haven’t seen before - SSL-Explorer. Per the project website:
SSL-Explorer is a fully-featured, web-based SSL VPN server. This practicable remote access security solution includes SSL tunneling, intranet website proxying, Microsoft Windows file sharing and Java application [...]

There has been a vulnerability found in Windows and Unix versions of Putty, PSFTP, and PSCP that was reported today (multiple integer overflow).� The author has released a new version (0.57) that fixes this vulnerability…� Go here for the download.
(for those of you who are not familiar with Putty - it is a [...]