Secure Remote Access for Outlook Article. Thomas Shinder has recently published the following article over at www.msexchange.org: Providing Secure Remote Access for the Full Outlook MAPI Client using the Exchange RPC Filter Summary: You can allow remote Outlook 2000/2002/2003 clients to connect to your Exchange Server and take advantage of the full functionality provided by… Continue reading Secure Remote Access for Outlook Article

Critics Attack Microsoft Over Security. A group of computer security experts asserted on Wednesday that Windows is a threat to national security because of its complex design and monopoly reach. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology]

DIY wireless home media server. Extreme Tech has an excellent guide to building your very own wireless home media server, including tips on how to optimize streaming so that you don't have to deal with watching herky-jerky video clips, and which digital video recording software to try (they recommend SnapStream Personal Video Station 3.0). …… Continue reading DIY wireless home media server

Enterprise IA Roadmap from Lou Rosenfeld. Lou Rosenfeld shares some thoughts from his current Enterprise Information Architecture seminars with his EIA Roadmap – a diagram showing the progression of IA within the enterprise. As well as laying out a course for pursuing IA within an organization, it acts as an interesting measure of capability and… Continue reading Enterprise IA Roadmap from Lou Rosenfeld

Fire your website. Erik Heels weighs in with some cogent observations about the value of using weblog software to manage your website (in his case, for his law firm, but the lessons apply equally well to other businesses). In particular, Erik provides a good review of several software systems (Radio Userland, Movable Type), discusses aggregators,… Continue reading Fire your website

InterAction question from the blogosphere. Former Mintz Levin CIO Ron Friedmann saw our press release announcing InterAction 5.1, and also noticed our announcement of InterAction Contact Verifier. Contact Verifier allows firms to manage the updating of contact data by letting contacts themselves visit a secure website and provide their updated contact information. Ron asked today… Continue reading InterAction question from the blogosphere

Configuring ColdFusion MX 6.1 with Windows 2003 by Dave Watts  [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

Notes and Tips: Apple Security Updates. The Mac OS X 10.2.8 update mess highlights problems with Apple's delivery of security fixes and contrasts with other Unix vendors. [MacInTouch]

National Public Radio is not very public. They like to say “you own the station,” it's one of the big marketing pitches, but it's not true. There's very little to distinguish a public radio station from commercial one. The major difference is the business model. NPR stations sell subscriptions and commercial stations don't. But the… Continue reading National Public Radio is not very public

Macromedia Central – Public Beta. Finally, everyone else can get their hands on what a few of us have been very excited about for a while: Macromedia Central is now in public beta! Mike Chambers has more to say about this in his blog but I'd urge you to install it and take it for a… Continue reading Macromedia Central – Public Beta