Month: September 2003

TCP 135 and the loss of end-to-end. I've never spent much time tethered to an Exchange Server, other than on an experimental basis, so I'd forgotten — or never knew — that Outlook contacts Exchange on TCP port 135. That is, of course, the same port that Blaster has lately been partying on with wild… Continue reading TCP 135 and the loss of end-to-end

Additional Outlook 2003 Monitoring Information. In Exchange 2000, there has always been the ability to add extra columns of information into the Logons object of a mailbox or public store in Exchange System Manager. There are many columns available, such as Open Attachments, Open Messages, etc. The method for adding these columns is to simply right-click… Continue reading Additional Outlook 2003 Monitoring Information

Rolling out Outlook 2003?. If you're planing to rollout Outlook 2003 (perhaps sooner than expected) you'll find lots of information about deploying, upgrading to, and maintaining this fantastic new mail client here. There are also some goodies for your toolkit. … [MS Exchange Blog]

Cheaper SSL…. Do you need to buy or renew a secure certificate now or at some point in the future… perhaps for OWA, or RPC over HTTP?… The answer will probably be yes… Well, Paul Robichaux decided that he wasn't going to be robbed (as my employer was, not too long ago) and decided to use… Continue reading Cheaper SSL…

Office 2003: Early or Not, Here It Comes. Sometimes, I get a really good chuckle out of Microsoft's marketing tactics. Last night, the company started informing analysts and reporters that Office 2003 would be released for download to volume-licensing customers and to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers, starting Monday. This has been characterized as being ahead… Continue reading Office 2003: Early or Not, Here It Comes

Dreamweaver Without Sites. One of the Dreamweaver “features” that us CFers complained loudly about was the need to define a site to be able to do anything. Unlike ColdFusion Studio which allowed you to browse an FTP or RDS connection for files, Dreamweaver required that a local site be created and that edits be made… Continue reading Dreamweaver Without Sites

John Ritter, Prolific Television Actor, Dies at 54: Emmy award-winning actor John Ritter gained fame playing bumbling and lovable characters in a pair of television comedies decades apart. Source: New York Times: NYT HomePage * [Archipelago]

Johnny Cash, Singer Known as 'The Man in Black,' Dies at 71: Johnny Cash, a towering figure in American music spanning country, rock and folk, died Friday in Nashville. Source: New York Times: NYT HomePage * [Archipelago]

GRC. Steve Gibson has put together a quick little app called DCOMbobulator that will test how effective the latest MS patches are protecting you from the lateset DCOM vulnerabilities, and it will also go ahead and disable DCOM on your machine. As he says on the site though, if you run a NAT router or… Continue reading GRC

Task Force Notes Problems Hours Before Blackout. Voltage shifts and line problems were observed “well before” the blackout on Aug. 14, a government task force said today. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]