I’ve always tried to separate passwords from emails containing a username and/or password protected document.  When you send a password in the same email as a username and/or password protected document your “security” is useless.  Even if you send ...[Read more]

I normally don’t blog about an article someplace else but this one is a must read.  It’s very important to keep you data in at least two places if not more.  http://lifehacker.com/5893278/how-to-protect-your-data-in-the-event-of-a-webapp-shutdown- ...[Read more]

Tip: Use lithium batteries in your cordless mouse. Sure they're more expensive but they're also lighter than alkaline or rechargeables. ...[Read more]

I recently ran into an issue of a dedicated trunk in UAG not presenting the logon screen to end user for OWA unless they typed /owa or /anytexthereblahblah after the domain/trunk name.  UAG was setup to do SSL offloading.  All traffic to/from endpoi ...[Read more]

Updated 03/09/2012 modified Jason Sandys link to his new blog page that includes 64-bit version.  Modified the zip file to include both 32-bit and 64-bit of OSDPlusPlus. I’ve been working on a project for an Operating System Deployment (OSD) where ...[Read more]

I’m currently working on a project standing up 3 UAG servers in an array.  I ran into a problem where the UAG array master couldn’t connect to one of the UAG array members.  It turned out for some oddball reason the computer account of the array ...[Read more]

The Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Capacity Planning Tool helps customers understand what hardware they need in order to support the number of users, wide area network bandwidth, features and protections enabled in their Forefront TM ...[Read more]

Microsoft has a TechNet article that talks about TMG hardware recommendations.  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff382651.aspx ...[Read more]

For some reason I have a lot of people use non-valid certificates on backend servers they’re connecting to through UAG.  This is because they don’t want to spend the money and/or time on a cert, it’s used for testing, work needs to continue with UAG ...[Read more]

I stumbled across this PDF that talks about version numbers for ISA, TMG, and UAG and how up to date they are on service packs, updates, hotfixes, etc.  The website is in German ( www.aixperts.de ) but the PDF is in English.  Thank you for having th ...[Read more]