Windows PowerShell is a powerful (no pun intended!) command line scripting language built on top of the .NET framework. Version 2.0 of Windows PowerShell comes installed by default with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. On older platforms, it is …

When troubleshooting client or server side application network connectivity issues, it is often necessary to determine if access to a certain port that the application uses is being blocked. In this article we’ll take a quick look at how to …

In the first part of this article we saw the legal parameters within which organizations implement internet monitoring. It’s easy to understand why employees feel concerned about being monitored at work. After all it’s human nature to feel uneasy knowing …

The debate about internet monitoring in the workplace has been going on for years! Employees often feel their employers are yet another entity that is enforcing the big brother effect on them, yet on the flip side employers feel as …

In a previous post, I discussed the concept of e-mail archiving in the cloud and ran through some pros and cons of hosting your e-mail archive off-site. Today we’ll take a quick look at on-premise e-mail archiving. Having an on-premise …

What are Vulnerability Scanners? Vulnerability scanners check your network against a database of known vulnerabilities; such a database is usually compiled from respectable resources such as CVE (http://cve.mitre.org) or OVAL (http://oval.mitre.org). They can also check for administrative oversights such as …

According to a recent report, business users send and receive an average of 110 emails per day. Such a figure indicates that email continues to play a predominant role in the day-to-day activities of an organization and that its use …

With e-mail volumes increasing, IT budgets decreasing, legal discovery issues becoming a more common occurrence and an organization’s dependence on e-mail for business success being the norm, it’s no wonder that e-mail administrators are under increased pressure to keep on …

Two of the largest social media sites, Twitter and Facebook, fell to their knees early Thursday morning, with both being severely disrupted by a coordinated attack. Whenever any of the 45 million users belonging to the Twitter community tried to …

Windows 7 has, since its first demonstration, been shown to work pretty well on netbooks, but loading it onto a netbook is not as simple as we’d like it to be. According to sources at CNET News, Microsoft are considering …