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How Email Archiving Software Helps Businesses

2011-12-27

In this post I explain how email archiving software solves many of the inherent problems that exist with the current email servers and email server setups. As you will see, storage space, the need to use PST files, performance and compliance are big issues for companies that do not invest in email archiving software. When [...]

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Serial Hacker Shows that Even iPhone Apps Aren’t Safe

2011-11-09

When the original iPhone was still a new product on the market, all programmers and computer scientists wanted to develop the latest, greatest iPhone app. A couple years later, as Android phones charged their way into the smartphone picture, attention turned to the relatively uncharted Android app frontier. IPhone apps were overdeveloped and had lost their luster, it was [...]

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howto://improve your Exchange performance

2011-10-29

Generally speaking, the most important application running on most enterprise’s networks is email. While LOB applications may be needed to run the primary manufacturing line, or a CRM application is vital to the sales department, and the accounting system is crucial to, well, the accountants…everyone relies upon email. This mission critical application that is used [...]

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Why you need to do a network security audit

2011-06-28

If you run a business of any size these days, running a network security audit is an essential process. The computer network in just about every organization contains information, the majority of which will either be business critical and/or sensitive in nature. Protecting that data is of paramount importance. But how can you achieve that [...]

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Security Compliance in the Cloud: What are the Risks?

2011-06-13

As more companies move their networks into the cloud and as high-profile security breaches continue to dominate headlines, IT administrators are asking: How safe is cloud computing for companies with sensitive data to protect? Cloud computing is a fairly new game with different rules requiring a unique skill set. As with any emerging technology, there [...]

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Why does your organization need an email archiving solution?

2011-05-20

If your organization uses an in-house mail server, an email archiving solution is the only way to take full advantage of the information contained within company emails while simultaneously reducing the amount of storage space required to maintain the messages. Archiving the ingoing and outgoing emails and attachments being sent to and from your employees, [...]

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Six tips for a successful patching process

2011-02-21

Did you catch the task to setup a patching process, but aren’t sure where to begin? This post is just the ticket for you.

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howto://pump up the volume without spamming

2011-02-07

When Marketing takes it upon themselves to email stuff out to a 2000 user contact list, here’s how you can make sure your Exchange environment doesn’t wind up on an RDNSBL.

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Block ActiveSync? Inconceivable!

2011-01-12

The other day someone asked me if we should block users from connecting their personal devices to Exchange. It seems a VP connected their personal iPhone (we’re a Crackberry shop until Verizon gets the iPhone…so come on Verizon, get with it!!!) and the boss was concerned about security. I don’t blame him, I am concerned [...]

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PSA: PSTs are evil

2011-01-05

Here’s a news flash for the handful of Exchange admins out there that missed the memo; PSTs are evil, evil pure and simple from the eighth dimension. They should be hunted down and destroyed wherever they may hide. Feel free to read more by clicking the picture below. If you found this post useful, please [...]

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Know your enemy

2010-12-29

My first contribution to GFI’s Talk Tech To Me blog is a two part series on five popular hacking techniques, and how to defend against them.

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Living on the edge

2010-12-10

When it comes time to design your Exchange infrastructure, one of the key design decisions is going to include how you bring email in from the Internet to your system. Believe it or not, you have options, and you can read about them here. If you find enjoy the post, please retweet it. Thanks. And [...]

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