Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

URLScan 3.1 Released

About a week ago, the IIS Team released an updated version 3.1 of the URLScan tool. If you are running ver. 3.0, it’s recommended that you upgrade to URLScan 3.1. URLScan is the tool to protect your websites against SQL Injection Attacks, the new version is updated to handle new variation of attacks. Our internal security team brought it to our attention that they’d seen a new variation on the attacks.  This new variation is …

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IIS Media Pack 1.0 Released

The IIS Team has released the final version (1.0) of the IIS Media Pack. IIS Media Pack 1.0 currently includes the Bit Rate Throttling and Web Playlists extensions for IIS 7.0, which enable you to: Save bandwidth costs by throttling the speed at which content is downloaded Decrease network traffic by metering your media deliveries Monetize media assets with Web playlists that personalize content and prevent ad skipping Intelligently deliver multiple media formats from a …

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Relocate your Groove 2007 files to another disk

If you are like me and you use Groove 2007 and also have several partitions on your disk, I use a smaller partition for the OS and another one for data etc. I’ve found a great guide on how to relocate your Groove 2007 data files to another disk and it works for Groove 2007 in Windows Vista. Read the full guide: How to relocate your Groove 2007 files to another disk

MS Web Deployment Tool – Beta 2 Released

Microsoft has released the latest version of the new Microsoft Web Deployment Tool for Internet Information Services (IIS). It the new wonder tool for migrating web servers and sites, in it’s current form it supports the following features: Migrate entire servers or individual sites from one machine to another (IIS6 –> IIS7) Sync Servers, Sites, and Applications (IIS6 –> IIS6, and IIS7 –> IIS7) Create offline packages that can be used as backups, version control, …

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WordPress URL Rewrite on IIS 7.0

Found this special ISAPI “WordPress URL Rewrite”, it’s a free ISAPI application for IIS 7.0. The features are: Can run with multiple WordPress installations in an IIS Web Site (for example: / and /MyBlog/) Has a configurable path Exceptions list (for example: defining /Forum as an exception would prevent any pages in this folder from being re-written) Works with IIS 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0 Works with WordPress 2.0 or higher Easy to setup, easy to …

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