Tools

Microsoft Released New Visio Stencils for Office Server and Office 365

  A few months ago, Microsoft Released an update to their Office Server Visio package. This new version now includes 300+ Visio Stencils for to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office 365 deployments including Microsoft Skype for Business, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. Basically a package for Visio, that everyone working with deployments and architecture, cannot work without. The zip file now includes both stencil sets …

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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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PFDAVAdmin and Exchange 2007

If you have never used PFDAVAdmin (Public Folder DAV-based Administration Tool) to manage public folders and mailbox permissions, take a look at it, it’s a pretty nice utility. It’s not a new tool, but it can help you to do a lot of things “in bulk” that you might not have done as easily otherwise or at least certainly not as quickly. PFDAVAdmin works with Exchange 2000/2003/2007. When working with Public Folder permissions on Exchange …

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IIS 7.0 Trace Viewer Released

Another great tool has been released. The IIS 7.0 Trace Viewer is an add-on for the Failed Request Tracing (FRT) feature of IIS 7.0. In FRT you are able to troubleshoot and do tracing. This tool provides a GUI interface for all those FRT logfiles. IIS7 Trace Viewer Features Trace View icon per site. Automatically enumerates all your trace files Shows trace filename, file size, file date, requested Url, HTTP status code, Application Pool and …

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