In the past when I have set up an OWA server, I have either added a redirect page in the IIS root directory so that I could automatically redirect my users from http://servername.corp.com to https://servername.corp.com/exchange or configured IIS to do the redirect. However, when I recently published OWA behind a TMG server, this would not [...]

I was starting to get tired of the Windows 7 logon background, which in my opinion, looks like a default Twitter theme. So I did some research and found that Microsoft has made it especially easy to change this background. You don’t even need to reboot. To do this, simply follow these Steps: Open Start [...]

While responding to a blog comment tonight, I realized I can never remember the syntax for extracting files from an MSI without actually installing the MSI. Sure, you may be able to initialize the install and allow the files to be extracted to their temporary location within your profile somewhere but this may not always [...]

At work, we use a server monitoring system that is configured to monitor all Windows services configured to start automatically. Until now, this has proven extremely effective and has actually saved a lot of time and effort because we do not need to build a unique monitoring profile for every server. However, with some recent [...]

Good network security is done with multiple layers of protection. Even though you may think your computer is secure because you keep it up to date with the latest security patches and virus signatures, zero day exploits come out all the time (for which there are no patches until, quite often, a much later date). [...]