Task Scheduler 2.0 Email

I was originally excited about the new Task Scheduler built into Windows Server 2008 & Vista….I liked the idea of being able to easily select an event from the Event Viewer and schedule a task to trigger when it occurred. I was thinking this would make a really easy way to monitor some simple server [...]

IIS 7 Leaking Internal IP (PCI Audit)

While going through a PCI-DSS audit for the credit cards, I ran into several Windows 2008 servers running IIS 7 that were failling on an old IIS 4 problem…they were sending out the internal IP address in the HTTP Headers.
After much digging around trying to figure out the issue, I was directed to a poston [...]

SSL 3.0 in IIS 7.0

One quirk I recently ran into was regarding SSL version 3.0 in IIS 7.0. I was under the impression that IIS defaulted to SSL 3.0 and had 2.0 disabled…this is apparently not the case. While going through a PCI audit we found that the server was still accepting SSL 2.0 connections which is apparently against [...]

SBS 2008 Partner Tour

So tonight we had the Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 Partner Tour. I’m still not sure why I’m still awake after going through about 6 hours of Power Point slides!
The start of the show, the vendor portion, was kinda slow as the vendors who were here really didn’t fit the crowd and it was [...]

FTP & Firewalls

One of the little “gotchas” I ran into on my recent installing spree was with FTP on Windows Server 2008. The systems are all running on a private network as a database/application server but I still have the built in firewall enabled and to help reduce risk from users on the network doing something stupid. [...]

Online screencasts

Been a while since my last post mainly due to recent traveling and doing major system upgrades at various properties. Only two deployments left with the current upgrades and then all but one will be running Windows Server 2008 and a combination of Vista and XP workstations.
At one point I was looking for something [...]

Server Delays

Over a month ago I ordered a bunch of new servers from Dell. I’ve never had a problem with delays when ordering servers from them before but this one turned into a painful delay. After going through several delays in manufacturing we finally got the server about a month later. Turns out the issue was [...]