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Skype for Business 2015 Planning Tool Released

    A few days ago Microsoft released the Skype for Business 2015 Planning Tool, it provides prescriptive guidance to get you started with planning your topology, for implementations of Skype for Business Server, use this tool together with the documentation on TechNet. The Skype for Business 2015 Planning Tool will ask you a series of questions about your organization and the features that you are interested in. The planning tool will then use your …

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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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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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URLScan 3.0 Released

Microsoft has released the latest version of URLScan 3.0, it’s released to web (RTW) like a lot of the other IIS modules and tools on IIS.net. URLScan 3.0 can help block automated sql injection attacks at global or site level and it can be used with IIS 6 and IIS 7. Download links: UrlScan v3.0 RTW for x86 UrlScan v3.0 RTW for x64 More info here.

Tool Tip: mRemote

Found this cool tool, mRemote – it’s  a full featured, multi-tab remote connections manager. I’ve previously used Microsoft’s own Remote Desktops and Visionapp’s Remote Desktop, both can handle multiple RDP connections in one interface. mRemote does the same, it just has more feature and is open source. So if you need a good tool to manage multiple servers, I can recommend mRemote. It even supports more protocols, such as: RDP (Remote Desktop) VNC (Virtual Network …

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