You may have read my post from yesterday about how SBSfaq.com was dead in the water for 4-5 hours yesterday. I was instantly suspicious of Microsoft and their patches as being the root cause of the problem. I mean it had to be Microsofts fault because patches had just been applied to the box and it had been rebooted right!!! WRONG. It just goes to show that … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2010
SBSfaq.com Website Down – here’s why
I awoke this morning to find that SBSfaq.com was in fact dead in the water. I logged onto the server console and found it had rebooted after last nights Microsoft patches. Oh great I thought – something is messed up with the patches. I reviewed the list of patches and could not see anything that would make it fail like this. None of the patches looked like … [Read more...]
SBS 2011 Releases to Manufacturing
Today Microsoft finalised and released the code for SBS 2011 Standard and the SBS 2011 Premium Addon. They announced it here. So over the next few weeks the actual code will be made available to the rest of us via the various channels. I’ll expect to see it on MSDN/TechNet early in the new year and available via the channel probably around the same time. This … [Read more...]
How do I get past the “Malicious Website Blocked” in Trend WFBS 7.0?
The Trend WFBS product has had the ability for some time now to perform scanning of web traffic and it compares the destination URLs you are attempting to access to both a local database on the WFBS Security Server and also a global database that Trend maintains for it’s Web Reputation Services. The WEBS database is one of the key ways that Trend can block access to … [Read more...]
Trend WFBS 7.0 – build 1369 or 1370?
I posted yesterday about a patch for WFBS 7.0 that brought it up to 1370 level. What I found shortly after applying the patch was that in the Trend WFBS Security console it reported not as build 1370, but as build 1369. See below. Initially I was concerned that this meant that the patches supplied were incomplete, but I contacted Trend and discussed this with the … [Read more...]