I’ve had this question asked of myself quite a few times now, and my response has been sure – as long as the application providers you run on your server support it. By that I mean things like your AV vendor and any LOB software that you run on the server need to support the Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. I know that Trend as of WFBS 7.0 Build 1435 … [Read more...]
Trend WFBS 7 Build 1417 released.
Trend last week (14th March), quietly and without fanfare released Build 1417 of the WFBS 7.0 product. You can download it here direct from them. Trend have not said much about this build, but I was given it in advance of release. What I found was a build that seemed far more stable and faster performing than I had previously with the WFBS 7.0 product. Good … [Read more...]
How can I avoid large incremental backups with Trend Micro WFBS and StorageCraft ShadowProtect ?
In Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 6.0 and higher, Trend have implemented new technology that reduces the size of pattern files distributed to the client machines. This combined with other architecture changes means that there is quite a lot of disk activity and change at certain times during the day. The disk activity is really a reorganisation of the … [Read more...]
Trend Community Forums
Many of you might not know it, but Trend have their own community forums through which you can find out about far more information that you normally can on their products. Trend’s Community forums are located here. I’d suggest you think about checking them out next time you have an issue with their product as the forums are staffed not only by Trend resellers, but … [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...]