Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
The Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack is built on the Windows Diagnostics Infrastructure in Windows Vista that detects, diagnoses and tries to resolve hardware and software problems.
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12.5.2007 Network Reminder 1.0 Beta 5
Network Reminder is a multi-user tool that allows you to set alarms or run programs at a specified time.
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15.10.2007 Network Monitor 3.3 for Windows 7
Network Monitor 3.3 is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. Version 3.3 is an update and replaces Network Monitor 3.2. Network Monitor 3.x is a complete overhaul of the previous Network Monitor 2.x version.
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22.4.2009 Network Diagnostics Tool for Windows
The Network Diagnostics for Windows XP tool analyzes information about your network connectivity to help you troubleshoot network-related problems with your computer. Typically you will do this along with a support professional, either on the phone or over the internet. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
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25.7.2006 Network Monitor 3.1 Beta Released
The NM3.1 Beta is available on http://connect.Microsoft.com and simmering with new features for you to test. I'll bet you can't wait to sniff wireless management traffic; for sure an exciting new feature. Not sure how to create a filter? Now this is much easier with our new right click, add to filter feature.
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9.5.2007 Vista Network Helper v1.5
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this post in his blog. Steve Jobs wrote: I’m a laptop user and connect frequently to new or different networks (wlan or lan) and I often come across the problem to connect to the internet or networks. So I decided to make my own batch file to change the network settings to solve the issue.
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17.5.2007 Microsoft Network Monitor 3.1.512.0
Network Monitor is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. This version is a complete overhaul of the previous Network Monitor 2.x version. Thanks to pacpis for this download.
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13.7.2007 How to fix Vista's network bottlenecks
As much as I enjoy using Vista, I’ve definitely noticed that in some networking activities, it definitely seems to struggle. Particularly compared with Windows XP.
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27.9.2007 Windows 7 DHCP Network Hint
The next iterations of the Windows client and server operating systems will deliver the evolution of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
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24.12.2008 Network Monitor 3.0 Final Released to Connect
The releases just keep coming...
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24.11.2006 Siemens Breaks Network Speed Record
German electronics company Siemens said Wednesday that it had set a new network speed record, achieving a speed of 107 gigabits -- the equivalent of roughly two DVDs worth of data -- per second, two and a half times faster than the previous record.
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21.12.2006 Windows 7 to allow PC backups to Network Share
Windows Complete PC Backup is an image based backup tool where you could take a backup of your entire system and restore it later.
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9.11.2008 Network Monitor 3.3 Beta released for testers
In order to download the beta, you must be a member of our connection. To join, select the HOME link in the top left corner and create an account or sign in. Then click on Apply Now under our connection from the CONNECTION DIRECTORY list to join.
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6.3.2009 Microsoft opens Network Monitor 3 beta 2 to public
After many years the Microsoft network sniffer, Network Monitor, is coming back.
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11.9.2006 Windows weakness can lead to network traffic hijacks
A problem in the way Windows PCs obtain network settings could let attackers hijack traffic, security researchers said Saturday.
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26.3.2007 12 Hidden Windows Vista Network Tools
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article. Windows Vista delivers an impressive line up of network tools that can be used to keep the operating system connectivity on a short leash. The total of 12 command-line tools can be used to manage all aspects of Vista networking.
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4.6.2007 Microsoft Responds To Vista's Network and Audio Problems
With the discovery last week of the connection between Vista's poor networking performance and audio activities, word quickly spread around the Net. No doubt this got Microsoft's attention, and they have responded to the issue. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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27.8.2007 Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Available
Microsoft has finally made the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers available from Microsoft Downloads.
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7.5.2008 Windows 7 Network Optimization, Virtualization, Devices Profile
With Windows 7, Microsoft is not only working to steer away from the mistakes made with Windows Vista, but also to move on territories where the successor of Windows XP has failed to gain a consistent level of traction.
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9.11.2008 Microsoft starts Windows Network Developer Platform beta
Windows Network Developer Platform
Windows Network Developer Platform encompasses technologies such as Winsock, WinINet, HTTP Server API and WinHTTP. HTTP Server APIs (also known as HTTP.sys) is the kernel mode HTTP server stack in Windows that provides user-mode Win32 APIs.
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Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till its public debut next week before writing about it.
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6.12.2007 Network Access Protection for XP SP3 and Vista SP1
Network Access Protection is designed to permit a high degree of control over client computers across a network.
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13.10.2008 Resolve TCP/IP Network Configuration Issues in Windows Vista
Microsoft has set up the networking infrastructure in Windows Vista in such a manner that it requires only minimal user interaction, especially when the operating system has to interact with a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server.
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7.10.2007 Enable Vista-Native Network Access Protection on XP SP3
Network Access Protection (NAP) is one of the few features that were actually added to Windows XP SP3.
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13.5.2008 Got Vista x64 questions? I've got answers
I got a lot of great questions and comments via e-mail and in the Talkback section of my previous post on the sudden surge in adoption rates for Windows Vista x64. In this follow-up, I summarize the answers I’ve found for each question.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 Build 7077 x64
Just 2 days ago the x86 flavor of build 7077 leaked to the intertubes, and, as rumored, x64 has slipped past the watchful eye of the Sinofsky Secret Police, so those of you who have postponed the upgrade because you don’t want an outdated architecture can finally get the latest and greatest to escape from the gates of Redmond.
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9.4.2009 Instant Messaging Comes to Xbox 360, Expanding the Largest Social Network on Television
Xbox 360 owners can connect with more than 260 million Windows Live Messenger users on Xbox 360, Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-powered devices beginning the week of May 7.
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9.4.2007 Microsoft Is Defending x64 Windows Vista
The 64-bit editions of Windows Vista have came under assault recently (read about it here and here), especially when it comes down to the kernel mode code signing security mitigation introduced in the x64 versions of the operating system.
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3.8.2007 Windows 7 Build 7057 x64 Surfaces
Those of you who have postponed downloading this shiny new build because of it’s ancient architecture can now grab it as the x64 flavor of this build has been spotted in the wild only 2 days after the x86 flavor leaked.
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13.3.3009 Vista x64 to require digital signatures for many drivers
With little fanfare, Microsoft just announced that the xX64 version of Windows Vista will require all kernel-mode code to be digitally signed. This is very different than the current WHQL program, where the user ultimately decides how they want to handle unsigned drivers.
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23.1.2006Comcast to deploy 250 GB/month usage caps in October
No longer having throttling as a weapon in its arsenal in the fight to control network overuse, Comcast is now deciding the only way it can implement
controls on its network is if it spreads throughput monitoring out to everyone equally...
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29.08.2008HP unleashes wireless network traffic monitoring
HP this week claimed to be the first to implement a technology designed to improve traffic monitoring in wireless networks.
HPs
ProCurve Networking enterprise LAN switching business said it has incorporated sFlow technology into its Wireless Edge Services xl Module for its
switches. HP just announced this module.
SFlow is an IETF specification “ RFC 3176 -- that uses packet-based traffic sampling to
provide network-wide visibility. It is intended to improve insight into network traffic both in wired and wireless environments, allowing customer to
quickly respond to security threats, and scale to large network deployments.
Though HP may be the first to implement sFlow for
wireless traffic monitoring, it is not the first to implement it for wireline. Extreme, Foundry and even HP began plugging sFlow into their switches
three years ago.
HP ProCurve and InMon Corporation jointly developed the wireless extensions for sFlow.
Customers will be able to use wireless sFlow to assist in wireless deployment, troubleshooting wireless signal or performance issues, as well as
gaining visibility into network traffic such as top talkers, top applications and connections, HP said.
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26.09.2007OneSwarm network improves file-sharing control, anonymity
UW computer-science researchers make monitoring downloads mighty hard.
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24.02.2009Who's on first? Wireless network security with Linux
Network monitoring and intrusion detection are integral parts of network security. This becomes even more important when introducing wireless access,
because now theres an openly available entry point into your network. You safeguard buildings with security systems, valuables with safes and server
rooms with doors. Its important to secure your wireless network too. Heres how to build monitoring in from the onset along with some great open-source
tools.
As soon as a wireless access point is installed it begins emitting broadcasts, announcing its Service Set Identifier
(SSID) to all and sundry. This is useful: it makes discovery and initial client configuration very swift and painless. Yet the downside is obvious;
this doesnt just help your users but any person who is armed with a wireless card “ be it in their laptop, PDA or iPod Touch!
This problem can be counteracted; most all access points (APs) will let you prohibit SSID broadcasts. In this case, the AP waits for a client to
connect with the proper SSID and channel. The network is now harder to find “ popular tools like NetStumbler wont see it “ and if it is harder to
find, it is also more secure.
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05.11.2007Whistleblower: AT&T Maintained a 'Secret Room' for the NSA
Former AT&T network technician Mark Klein appeared yesterday on Capitol Hill to reiterate his astonishing claim: AT&T operated a 24 x 48-foot room in
one of its network operations centers in San Francisco, where Klein discovered his employer was cooperating with the National Security Agency in the
monitoring of all Internet traffic over a major backbone line...
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09.11.2007Nokia, Intel beef up new network security appliance
Nokia added a new appliance to its network security range that has more processing muscle -- the first product to come out of its collaboration with
Intel.
The
IP2450 is intended for large enterprises and
service providers doing high-end network monitoring. It features two quad-core Intel processors.
Running Check Point Software
Technologies' SecureXL VPN (virtual private network) and firewall software, the appliance can handle as much as 9Gbps of traffic using Nokia's IPSO
6.O OS. Adding two Nokia Accelerated Data Path (ADP) cards boosts throughput to 20Gbps. ..
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06.09.2007Twitter vote-monitoring effort mainly sound and fury
The ad hoc volunteer election-monitoring effort undertaken on Twitter last week had problems with imprecise methodology and random trolls, so much so
that one researcher calls the compiled data "a mess."..
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13.11.2008Network management software vendors readying IPv6
It may be time to ask your network monitoring and management software vendors about their plans for IPv6 visibility.
IPv6
visibility is "moderately critical," said Phil Hochmuth, senior analyst for Yankee Group. "It's something that's on everyone's checklist. In any
government organization, it's going to be a bit higher priority because of the federal mandates they have around IPv6, but it's something ¦ everyone
is going to have to have in the future and everyone will have support for it eventually, whether they are network equipment makers or network
management software makers. It's better to do it sooner rather than later."
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31.07.2008Windows Home Server x64 Connector Announcement Coming at CES 2008
Good news is on the way for those of you who wish to use Windows Home Server with x64 home computers.
As many of you know, the
Windows Home Server Connector does not currently support x64 home computers, which has caused a lot of frustration and angst amongst early adopters of
the x64 platform. Microsoft have previously announced that they would provide x64 support for machines running Windows Vista (
check out our Q&A with
the WHS Team for more) - those of you running Windows XP x64 will have to upgrade, unfortunately.
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30.11.2007Arbor to acquire Ellacoya Networks
Consolidation in security keeps on coming, with Arbor Networks stepping up to the plate with plans to acquire Ellacoya Networks. Arbor, which
announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ellacoya on Thursday, is looking to boost its network security and service offerings to Internet service
providers.
While the combined company will maintain separate products lines, Arbor is aiming to infuse its network security monitoring and
reporting capabilities into Ellacoya's platform and Ellacoya's deep packet inspection technologies will be mixed into Arbor's products.
The end goal is dish up technology that can detect and address a range of network-based attacks from the core of an ISP's network to the edge of
the broadband service.
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18.01.2008Exploring Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition
In this overview of Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition,
Columnist Charlie Russel
explains what hardware and
software it supports...
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04.01.2006CIA purchases stake in firm monitoring social networking
News reported on Wired's US website gives details regarding a plan by 'America's spy agencies' to read our blog posts, keep track of
our Twitter updates and check out our book reviews on Amazon. The investment branch of the CIA, a company named In-Q-Tel has invested a sum of money
into a company named Visible Technologies, a software firm which specializes in monitoring social media websites such as Twitter and YouTube.
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20.10.2009Microsoft aims to slash malware's window of opportunity
A
new
patent suggests that
Microsoft plans to help
network administrators fight
the spread of malware by
developing a network
monitoring system that would
collect realtime malware data
in an effort to prevent
malware from spreading on
non-protected clients and
reduce the time it takes to
patch against such malware.
It's quite like
Windows Defender, but with a
(potentially) much quicker
response time, and manageable
by network admins. We learned
of the new patent from reader
James
Moody, who wrote to us
with word of his find.
A central "trusted
entity" (a server on the
network) would talk to clients
outfitted with special
software, working in unison to
check application signatures
and request more information
from clients when the presence
of malware is suspected. The
monitoring server dynamically
builds profiles for each
exploit it finds and then
prevents it from propagating
across the network by
notifying other clients of the
exploit's features.
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23.07.2007OpsMgr 2007 SP1 RC Console crashes on x64
Andrzej Lipka: When you try to open the Distributed Application Designer from a console installed on an x64 server you may see the console crashes
with .NET error in the Application Log (something of type badimageformat).
This seems to be a bug in SP1 RC. To work around it
use a console from an x86-32 (32 bit) machine to connect to the x64 server.
On OpsMgr 2007 RTM this issue does not exist.
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08.11.2007Microsoft Outlines System Center Road Map
Microsoft plans to ship its
long-awaited Operations
Manager 2007 application
management software on April
1, which will mark the first
product released under the
System Center brand. Formerly
known as Microsoft Operations
Manager v3, System Center
Operations Manager 2007
provides end-to-end event,
service and application
monitoring and reporting. The
platform supports Service
Model Language (SML) for
monitoring IT and software
services -- required for
service-level agreements --
and features audit collection
services for compliance
auditing and a customizable
reporting tool.
At
the Microsoft Management
Summit, which started Tuesday
in San Diego, the Redmond,
Wash., software giant also
announced a technology
licensing agreement with EMC
that will bolster the network
management capabilities of
System Center Operations
Manager 2007. As part of the
deal, Microsoft said it will
integrate EMC's Smarts
network discovery and health
monitoring software into a
future version of Operations
Manager.
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28.03.2007Frequently asked questions
about Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition
Columnist Charlie Russel
answers questions about
Windows XP Professional x64
Edition that have appeared
frequently in the new (and
very active) Microsoft Windows
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04.01.2006Virtual Server 2005 Beta
Program Comes to a Close
The Virtual Server
2005 R2 Beta program has come
to a close. One of the most
interesting notes is that the
product name has been changed
from Virtual Server 2005 SP1
to Virtual Server 2005
R2.
"When
we sat back and took a look at
all the new functionality we
added in this release, we
realized that it was much more
than a typical service
pack."
Virtual
Server 2005 R2 Beta testers
will be offered a free copy of
Virtual Server
2005 R2
Enterprise Edition (both x86
and x64 editions) in
appreciation of the feedback
sent.
Some of the
key features include:
. Clustering virtual machines
across hosts
. Host
clustering support
.
Greater Scalability - 64-bit
(x64) host support
.
Improved Performance - Up to
50% drop in CPU
utilization
.
Improved Manageability - PXE
network boot support
.
Better Interoperability -
Linux guest support..
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10.11.2005SP2 for Server 2003, x64
Enters Beta
Microsoft on Wednesday
released Beta 1 of Service
Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003
and Windows XP x64 edition.
The single update will cover
both operating systems, along
with the R2 release of Server
2003. A standalone SP2 beta
package is available in
32-bit, 64-bit and Itanium
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29.06.2006I Spy the Windows Vista SP1 x64 Full DVD (integrated)
Keith Combs: The Windows Vista SP1 x64 .ISO file is now online in the TechNet Subscriber Downloads center. It's the fully integrated SP1 thus
allowing you to install the operating system from scratch. Although it says English, it's my understanding it includes French, German, Japanese and
Spanish as well.
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29.02.2008SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit 1.0 Available
The SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit helps you manage Microsoft® SharePoint® environments of all sizes with two new management packs for System Center
Operations Manager 2007:
- Windows® SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Management Pack
These packs monitor the health state of the components in your SharePoint environment that affect performance and
availability. When there is an issue that may cause service or performance degradation, Operations Manager 2007 uses the management packs to detect
the issue, alert you to its existence, and facilitate diagnosis and corrective actions.
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