security - Fishbrains

Why Is IIS Host Name Greyed On Site Binding Using Wildcard SSL?

Likely because your SSL Certificate Friendly Name is the field used for IIS to determine if it's a Wildcard. If your Common Name is *.domain.com and in the IIS Edit Site Binding the SSL certificate drop down shows just domain.com then that's your issue. Good news is you

windows

RDP Exploit is Coming - Patch All Windows Now

I'm posting this info to do "my part" to ensure the word gets out on this Windows OS Internet-exploitable vulnerability. I can count on one hand the times I've had to care this much about a Windows patch in the last 15 years. Please read and react. This has the

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The OCS 2007 R2 Communicator hyperlink mystery

I don’t think this problem/solution is much different in older versions. Problem: when you send a link from Communicator client to another, the link isn’t clickable, has a _ (underbar) in front of it, or both. Results may be different on different computers. It’ll look like

security

SharePoint and IIS Sites Unavailable From Localhost

Also seen as: search is running but no results returned search errors in event log (can't access content, etc.) you can access sites fine from other boxes but not from the local server only seems to happen for URL's (http://sitename1, http://sitename2) that are different then the host name

firewall

ISA 2006 from Edge Firewall to 3-Leg Perimeter

What if you want to take your simple 2 NIC “Internal/External” firewall and add a DMZ to it on the fly? We recently tried this on a production firewall no less and hoped it would work. It did after a few bumps. The big problem with

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Ping Windows 2008 with Firewall On

You should be trying hard to keep the firewall on when deploying Windows Server 2008. If you need to ping the server and haven’t enabled File and Printer Sharing, then open Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and under Inbound rules, enable “File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-In)