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 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 Windows 7 UAC Control, Control, Control
In the next version of the Windows client, end users will be able to customize the level of nagging that the operating system generates via the User Account Control, revealed Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, on behalf of the team building the feature. Sinofsky emphasized that, as early as Windows 7 pre-Beta Milestone 3 Build 6801, users of the operating system would be able to see a reduction in the volume of prompts associated with UAC.
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16.1.2009 Easily Login to Windows XP with No Password Administrator Account Backdoor Trick
In password-protected Windows XP Home or Professional edition system, each user logs on to his or her own user name and password to have full access to the Windows computer.
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25.11.2006 PC login Now - How To Change a Windows XP Limited User Account Into a Computer Administrator
One of the place that I work at has a few hundreds of computers and it is shared by students.
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12.7.2008 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 XP SP3 Update Breaks Windows Home Server Remote Access
Windows Home Server users are reporting Remote Access problems after updating their home computers to Windows XP Service Pack 3.
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18.5.2008 Login with Live!
Microsoft today came a step closer to replacing their old .NET Passport system with the launch of the new Live.com login.
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29.4.2006 How to login to an expired Windows
Microsoft has a neat little way to prevent software piracy of their Windows operating system.
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14.12.2006 Firefox, IE vulnerable to fake login pages?
Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords.
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23.11.2006 Control Panel
Vista Firewall Control
Thanks to hermanhlam for this post in our forum. Vista Firewall Control Protects your applications from undesirable network incoming and outgoing activity, controls applications internet access.
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28.3.2007 Hacker Control Via ISP
Knowing the rate of cyber-crime the UK has it's no wonder they're trying to think of anything that might work to take it down. Now, a few Lords are asking Internet Service Providers to "Police" the Internet.
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7.9.2007 Sphinx - Vista Firewall Control 1.0.2
Due to looking for Sphinx software on this forum....this ended up being double posted. Thanks to hermanhlam and odeeee for this download.
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22.7.2007 NBC to Control Cable Channel After Deal With Microsoft
NBC Universal is taking control of its flagging cable venture, MSNBC, ending the decade-old broadcast partnership with Microsoft Corp., the two companies said yesterday.
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26.12.2005 Turn Off or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware to exploit the system-level privileges provided to the local administrator to attack the network security, compromise computer safety and privacy, and damage files and settings in the network.
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19.12.2006 Jim Allchin explains Windows Vista User Account Control
One of the most basic conundrums in computer security is the constant trade-off between security and usability. At the end of the day, if security is too complicated to use, then it simply won't be used.
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24.1.2007 Microsoft is not trying to block access says Kaspersky
Microsoft's new operating system Vista will not make it more difficult for anti-virus systems to work, Russian computer security group and potential IPO candidate Kaspersky Lab said on Friday, contradicting rivals.
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9.10.2006 Access 2007 Runtime SP1 is now available
This version of the Access 2007 Runtime contains files whose versions are slightly higher than the level of the same files that are updated by Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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30.3.2008 Access Windows 7 Feature Walkthroughs
Windows 7 brings to the table a variety of new and evolved features, and Microsoft has taken the necessary measures designed to bring them to center stage.
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2.4.2009 Microsoft Sued Over Mobile E-Mail Access
Microsoft is facing a new lawsuit today from telecommunications provider Visto claiming that the software giant "...infringed upon multiple patents Visto holds regarding proprietary technology that provides enterprises and consumers with mobile access to their e-mail and other data."
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16.12.2005 Quick Reference for Outlook Voice Access
Outlook Voice Access lets UM-enabled users to access their Exchange 2007 mailbox using analog, digital, or cellular telephones.
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12.6.2006 Windows 7 Non-Uniform Memory Access Architectures
Windows 7 will be able to take advantage not only of faster CPUs, but of multiple processors on a single chip. The 64-bit edition of the operating system in particular will be able to support over 64 Logical Processors per machine.
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28.12.2008 Windows 7: Internet access to home media
By linking your Live ID to your user account in Windows 7 (from build 7048), you can now stream your home media to your another PC/laptop connected to a work or public network.
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12.3.2009 Google to Give Developers Access to Trends API
Google will eventually give programmers access to an API for its Trends analysis tool.
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5.12.2007 Microsoft Backtracks, Allows MSN Music Access Until 2011
After taking some heat for its April decision to shutter its MSN Music servers, Microsoft this week backtracked and decided to allow access until the end of 2011.
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21.6.2008 Microsoft sets sail with high-seas Net access
Just the thing for the ideal boating experience? High-speed Internet access.
As part of Microsoft's attempt to make the Web omnipresent, the company announced a new service Thursday that will connect boaters to the Internet. Seafaring Web surfers can stay connected 25 miles from land thanks to a partnership struck between Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft and antenna maker KVH Industries.
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17.2.2006 Microsoft Outlook Web Access 2007 - new features in Beta 1
Hi. I'm DJ Schwend, a product designer working on the OWA team here in Exchange. I've put together this overview of the best new features in our Beta 1 release. We've made huge strides to improve the online experience and our goal is to keep being the best web mail client in the world.
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18.5.2006 Microsoft: Vista Wireless Access Could Cause Laptop Battery Drain
Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning, because some wireless access points aren't configured to take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi power-saving mode.
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9.12.2006 Access Windows Server 2008 SP2 Performance Tuning Guidelines
The need to squeeze every last drop of performance out of a specific system running Windows is even more stringent when it comes down to server infrastructures compared to client machines.
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29.7.2009Independent research firm recognizes Microsoft NAP as a leader in Network Access Control
Microsofts Network Access Protection (NAP) solution was cited as a leader (the top category) in a recent independent report, The Forrester Wave:
Network Access Control, Q3 2008. Microsoft was one of the many network access control (NAC) vendors invited to participate in the report.
Forrester placed a lot of emphasis on different access control scenarios for the evaluation and the different vendors were evaluated
around twelve different scenarios as well as strengths across technology, strategy and market presence.
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18.09.2008Microsoft to Release Windows XP SP3 Later This Year
Microsoft is set to release
not only Windows Server 2008,
but also Windows XP Service
Pack 3 later this year,
according to a recent press
release on Microsoft
PressPass. It has been
suspected in the past that
Windows XP SP2 would end up as
the final service pack
released for the operating
system, but apparently these
suspicions can now be laid to
rest.
This
information came in
conjunction with the
announcement that Windows XP
SP3 as well as Windows Vista
will gain support for
interoperability between
Microsoft's Network Address
Protection (NAP) and Juniper
Network's Unified Access
Control (UAC) standards for
network access control (NAC)
deployments.
The
feature set for Windows XP
Service Pack 3 is however
still unannounced.
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24.05.2007Microsoft, TCG, Juniper Tie the NAC Knot
A lot of vendors
selling a lot of components
that have to agree on how to
measure a lot of things have
to come together to make an
effective Network Access
Control system. You're
talking vendors of hardware,
security, network security,
client security and operating
systems deciding how to tell
who's running a system trying
to access the network, whether
that system's healthy,
whether it needs to be
quarantined, how to give it
the proper level of network
access and how to fix it if
it's not up to
snuff.
Microsoft and the Trusted
Computing Group on May 21 are
making an announcement that
will provide the fabric to
mesh much of all that.
At Interop in Las Vegas,
the two are letting it be
known that the TCG's TNC
(Trusted Network Connect) NAC
architecture will adopt
Microsoft's NAP (Network
Access Protection) protocol,
which is primarily a
client/server NAC spec.
Juniper Networks at the same
time is announcing that it's
working with Microsoft on
interoperability between
Juniper's UAC (Unified Access
Control) NAC standard and
Microsoft's NAP.
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22.05.2007Microsoft Vista security impresses IT staffers hot for NAC
Microsoft's
network access control client in Vista and now in
Windows XP has a lot of IT executives excited, according to an informal poll of about 250 attendees of an Interop Las Vegas NAC seminar who are
actively considering deploying the access technology.
About a third of them say they would use the NAC support in the Microsoft
client software rather than pay more and deal with deploying and maintaining a client with more features that they have to pay extra for. Microsoft
calls its NAC technology Network Access Protection (NAP)
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29.04.2008Deploying IPsec Server and Domain Isolation using Windows Server 2008 Group Policy
Network Access Protection is a new technology included with Windows Server 2008 that allows you to control what machines are allowed to connect to
other machines on your network. Network Access Protection (or NAP) enables you to set system health policies that must be met before a machine is
allowed network access. If the machines meet the requirements in the network access policies, then they are allowed on the network. If not, then the
machine may be disallowed from connecting to any machine on the network, or you might configure policies that allow the machine to connect to
remediation server that allow the machine to remediate and try to connect to the network again after remediation is successful.
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09.10.2008Windows XP SP3 Update Breaks Home Server Remote Access
Windows Home Server users are reporting Remote Access problems after updating their home computers to Windows XP Service Pack 3.
Following
the update, attempting to access those home computers via Windows Home Server’s Remote Access features brings up a dialog asking the user to add
their homeserver.com domain to the Trusted Sites list in Internet Explorer. However, after doing so, users are still not able to access those PCs.
The issue arises due to security changes in XP SP3 - namely, that the Terminal Services ActiveX control in Internet Explorer is disabled by
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19.05.2008Vulnerability in the ActiveX Control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access
Microsoft is investigating active, targeted attacks leveraging a potential vulnerability in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft
Access. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. When a user views the Web page, the vulnerability
could allow remote code execution. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user.
The ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access enables you to view an Access report snapshot without having the
standard or run-time versions of Microsoft Office Access. The vulnerability only affects the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft
Office Access 2000, Microsoft Office Access 2002, and Microsoft Office Access 2003.
The ActiveX control is shipped with all
supported versions of Microsoft Office Access except for Microsoft Office Access 2007. The ActiveX control is also shipped with the standalone
Snapshot Viewer.
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07.07.2008Windows XP SP3 Update Breaks Windows Home Server Remote Access
Windows Home Server users are
reporting Remote Access problems after updating their home computers to Windows XP Service Pack 3.
Following the update, attempting to access those home computers via Windows Home Servers Remote Access features brings up a dialog asking the user
to add their homeserver.com domain to the Trusted Sites list in Internet Explorer. However, after doing so, users are still not able to access those
PCs.
The issue arises due to security changes in XP SP3 - namely, that the Terminal Services ActiveX control in Internet Explorer
is disabled by default.
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17.05.2008Symantec's 'Hamlet' Promises All-Seeing, Single-Console Security
Symantec is drawing all the
disparate security
technologies that protect
enterprise endpointsnetwork
access control, application
control, anti-virus,
anti-spyware, desktop
firewall, host and network
intrusion prevention, and
device controlinto one
integrated agent managed from
one console, resulting in a
product it says is matched by
none on the market today when
it comes to functionality.
The company plans to
unveil Symantec Endpoint
Protection 11.0 at its
http://vision.symantec.com/>Sy
mantec Vision show in Las
Vegas on June 13 and will
simultaneously make it
available in a public beta
version at
www.symantec.com/endpoint
security. The product includes
proactive technologies
designed to automatically
analyze application behaviors
and network communications to
detect and actively block
attacks. Symantec will also
unveil Symantec NAC (Network
Access Control) 11.0, which
had been code-named Project
Hamlet.
Symantec
considers Endpoint Protection
to be a significant step in
its new enterprise security
vision, dubbed "Security
2.0" when it was announced in
October 2006...
winbeta.org - 13.06.2007
Expert Zone Support WebCast:
Using Remote Desktop in a Home
Network
MVP Charlie Russel will
discuss networking questions
such as how to use the
convenient Remote Desktop
technology to access your
Windows XP Professional-based
computer on your home network.
Live March 16th, on demand
after that...
WindowsXP/expertzone - 04.01.2006
NAP FAQ updated with XP SP3 information
Microsoft have updated the NAP
FAQ regarding the release of
the NAP Client for Windows
XP.Q. When will Windows XP
support Network Access
Protection as a client?
A. Microsoft is including
the NAP Client for Windows XP
(now in beta testing) in
Windows XP Service Pack 3. For
more information about the
availability of Windows XP
Service Pack 3, see
Windows
Service Pack Road Map. For
additional information about
NAP support for versions of
Windows prior to Windows Vista
and Windows Server 2008, click
here.It's looking as though XP
SP3 will turn out to be much
more than just a Hotfix Rollup
update and will contain some
new features.
winbeta.org - 11.07.2007
Microsoft Affiliates Network gets a facelift
As we all know, Microsoft Affiliates Network was closed on December, 15th 2008. In an email sent to me yesterday, Microsoft Affiliates Manager Melissa
Witt wrote about the new offers which will be available in early 2009 when Affiliates Network will re start its services: The Microsoft Affiliate
Network is transiting to a new service provider and after December 31, 2008 you will no longer be able to login to the Affiliate console. Please
download any reports you may need from this console before January 1, 2009. New offers will be available early in 2009 and your new affiliate
managers will notify you when the network is ready.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 21.12.2008
How To: Network Your Workgroup Computers
Whether you're configuring a home or a small office workgroup, if you have Windows XP and Windows Vista machines in the workgroup you might have had
problems getting them to see each other and access shared resources. This short screencast will explain some of the main networking related
differences between Windows XP and Windows Vista and cover the things to check to get everything running smoothly.
The
assumption is the physical network is functioning correctly.
winbeta.org - 23.10.2008
Controlling Service Security Using Windows Server 2008
Nearly every server that you have in your environment is running some sort of service. These services provide access to data, resources, applications,
and other important areas of the server and network functionality. If these services are not protected, they become ideal candidates for an attacker.
When a service is attacked, access to the server and potentially the network is at stake.
The possibility of the service being
sabotaged is also at stake, which could result in down time and loss of money due to the server performing the services functions. With Windows Server
2008 Microsoft has added some fantastic new control over services. When you combine all of the control that Microsoft provides for services in a Group
Policy Object, you can ensure that your services are protected.
winbeta.org - 18.06.2008
Facebook opens up to OpenID
Facebook has stepped forward and joined OpenID with a growing number of popular web sites that have recently joined OpenID. Up till now, Facebook has
only allowed third-party developers to access user's data strictly through its own proprietary standards. OpenID allows users who have never
before been on a web site with OpenID to allow that person to login using their Facebook account, but for now Facebook hasn't released details if
they will let people login using their Facebook account details, but only mentioned they will support OpenID.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 07.02.2009
BeyondTrust tames Vista's UAC pop-ups
Management vendor BeyondTrust Tuesday unveiled software that lets companies nearly
eradicate the pop-ups that plague Windows Vista's user account control feature.
BeyondTrust released Privilege Manager 3.5 with
a feature that plugs into Microsoft's Group Policy infrastructure and lets IT control administrative rights needed to access some applications.
Vista's UAC feature was touted as a way to avoid giving users administrative rights to their desktops. With those rights, users can
install software and control the entire machine -- and so can malicious programs that secure administrative rights. UAC was designed to curb that
problem, but users quickly found that the number of pop-up windows UAC generated was confusing at best.
"The things that were
scaring us away from Vista were the hardware requirements and UAC," says Omar Ghneim, network administrator for EXCO Resources, an energy company
based in Dallas. "We tried Vista on a few administrators' machines, but they couldn't handle the pop-ups and we went back to XP the next day." ..
winbeta.org - 23.08.2007
Partners Will Extend Network Access Protection to Linux and Mac Desktops, and Create a New Appliance Form Factor
The Network Access Protection (NAP) ecosystem hits 150,000 deployed desktops milestone...
microsoft.com/presspass - 13.11.2007
Usernames and passwords to San Francisco network exposed in court docs
San Francisco again has control of its own FiberWAN network, but as it compiles evidence to keep distraught network administrator Terry Childs in
jail, the city could have opened itself up to a slew of new security problems...
betanews.com - 29.07.2008
Windows XP SP3 Final Released to PC Manufacturers (Updated)
WB: In regards to the availability of XP SP3 for MSDN/TechNet subscribers and the availability of the XP Embedded/WinFLP editions, Chris Keroack,
release manager of XP SP3, mentioned the
following:
- "MSDN/Technet - Not yet. This will be available within the next month."
- "XP Embedded and Windows Fundamentals
will be available at a later date."
We personally find it a bit odd that paying subscribers will not have access to the build until after
the public download on April 29.
Microsoft confirmed today that the final version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been
released to PC manufacturers right on schedule. The update will be available to end users to download next Monday, April 29, and pushed to Windows
Update in June.
Microsoft gave us an early look at the update as a 580MB disk image. What we saw is barely changed from our
preview of an early beta of SP3, and seeing Windows XP SP3 for the first time is highly unremarkable.
Far from being a new
operating system, Windows XP SP3 is really an accumulation of updates for compatibility, security, and performance. It doesn't contain new features
found in Vista, aside from Network Access Protection (NAP), which lets XP systems work with Windows Server 2008's ability to enforce system health
requirements before allowing access to network assets.
winbeta.org - 21.04.2008
Modifying the All Users profile in Vista or Windows Server 2008
Peter Fitzsimon: Ok, so I just spend a few whistful hours trying to work out how to modify the "All Users" profile on a Windows Server 2008 system.
I wanted to add a program to run at login (e.g. in the Start Menu|Programs|Startup directory) for all users that login, but things are now a bit
different with Vista and Windows Server 2008.
I have found quite a few people asking similar questions on the Internet but no one
seems to have offered a solution that works so I thought I'd post my findings.
Firstly, for those who haven't hit this before,
the "C:Documents and Settings" directory where user profiles are stored in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems has changed to "C:Users"
in Vista and Windows Server 2008. (I regularly encounter XP users who have upgraded to Vista getting confused by this one)
winbeta.org - 24.02.2008
