Free Syslog tools
What is the best free syslog tool? We used to use kiwi but it is no longer free. We need to simply monitor a syslog, write it to disk and resolve IPs in it to host names.

Answer Question   |  May 18, 2011  6:48 PM
IPS, Kiwi Syslog, Kiwi Syslog Server, Syslog, System monitoring

Free IT Book: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud
This week’s free IT book is from Prentice Hall: SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud. From the publishers: “[This book] is the result of a multi-year project to collect proven industry practices for establishing IT governance controls specific to the adoption of SOA and service-orientation….[It] steps the readers through the most [...]

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2011  4:04 PM
AS/400, Business Intelligence, Channel, CIO, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Giveaways, IT Books, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, twitter, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows Server

Outlook send/receive bar wont quit running
I use Office 2003 and Outlook 2003, i have three separate problems. First the send/receive tool bar at the bottom continually runs, there are no messages in the outbox and the tool bar says that it is complete, yet it just wont go away and most of my emails are not being delivered. Sencond – [...]

Answer Question   |  June 29, 2011  7:50 PM
Outlook 2003, Outlook 2003 error messages, Outlook send/receive, Password authentication

Long distance monitoring SIP servers and proxies
We have a data center hosting our sip servers and proxies. The location is far from our main office. How can we monitor the servers and the lines?

Answer Question   |  May 16, 2012  2:41 PM
Network monitoring, Network Monitoring Tools, Networking, Proxy servers, Server monitoring, SIP

Gmail SMTP relay
Hi, Just came to know that there is a possibility of SMTP relaying using gmail accounts(google apps as well). Can anyone help me on this ?????? I`m using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Answer Question   |  May 25, 2011  12:47 AM
Gmail, Relay server, SMTP, Ubuntu 10.04

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Answer Question   |  May 18, 2011  2:26 PM
AS/400, Business Intelligence, Channel, CIO, Contests, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, ITKE, ITKE Community, Knowledge Point Bounty, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, Profile Pictures, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows Server

How to tackle the security risk an IT administrator generates
Hello, im an auditor for global copany risks. One of the things that we look for is sepperation of functions. shortly said, you don’t want the same person creating your bill’s and be able to pay them (because he presents a serious security risk for commiting fraud.) Now what to do with an Domain Administrator [...]

Answer Question   |  May 14, 2011  7:43 AM
Administrative privileges, Administrator, IT administration, Security, Security audits

AVG 2011 and Exchange 2010 issues?
anyone out there using AVG and Exchange, we would like to install AVG 2011 Mail version on the Exchange server but would like to find out if anyone is having issues and if you are, what are the corrections to make these two play nice. thanks much

Answer Question   |  May 11, 2011  10:29 PM
AVG, AVG 2011, AVG and Exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2010 Security, Windows Server 2008 R2

Fault tolerance on a web server
What is the best way to have fault tolerance on our web server? We have a few backup machines all identical that get replicated via scripts every 10 minutes. How cab we automatically fail over to another already configured box if the primary production machine fails? Is this some DNS magic?

Answer Question   |  May 22, 2011  7:41 PM
DNS, DNS server, Fault tolerance, Scripting, Web Server, Web server administration, Web servers

Restrict one username (login) for only one session in ISA 2006
how i can restrict one username to work only as one session but without restrict him with only one computer i have isa 2006 and websense 7 also active dir 2006

Answer Question   |  May 9, 2011  9:14 AM
Active Directory, ISA 2006, User restrictions, Websense

SAPMMC All Settings Gone after running CCCleaner , How to get all settings
Hello All SAPMMC All Settings Gone after running CCCleaner , How to get all settings back . I donot know what is SID ( System ID ), Instance etc. If this is not relevant to this forum plz let me know which forum …. Regards Rohit Running on Windows server 2003

Answer Question   |  May 10, 2011  6:05 AM
CCSID, SAPMMC, SID, Windows Server 2003

Exchange 2003 Authentication
HI,      We do have a exchange server 2003 in our organization,Now i am planning to change the authentication method to Integrated Windows Authentication(The client and server negotiate the windows security support provider interface).Can anybody tell me what settings or changes i need to do while configuring OUTLOOK 2007 AND OUTLOOK 2010 POP3 accounts.

Answer Question   |  May 9, 2011  5:48 AM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 authentication, Outlook 2010, POP3, Windows authentication

AS400 and connecting via ssh or using sftp to retrieve files.
Hi, Can somone tel me if the AS400 supports sftp access, we have an application that we wish to call an AS400 to retrieve files. The question is will the AS400 allow sftp. Currently it allows ftp but this will be non encrypted. Thanks

Answer Question   |  May 12, 2011  9:21 PM
AS/400, AS/400 SFTP, Connection Issues, SFTP, SSH

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Answer Question   |  May 6, 2011  7:57 PM
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PHP Security issues
HI, What are security loopholes that one must be careful while writing PHP code that interacts with databases and user accounts? I will be grateful for any help that is given regarding this.

Answer Question   |  May 5, 2011  4:15 PM
PHP, PHP Coding, PHP scripts, PHP Security, Security

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Answer Question   |  May 5, 2011  3:52 PM
AS/400, Business Intelligence, Channel, CIO, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Knowledge Point Bounty, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Open IT Forum, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows Server

Remote wipe of Windows Mobile devices connected to Exchange
How can I remotely wipe a Windows Mobile device connected to our Exchange server? Are there policies or security templates I can use? Does anyone have a walkthrough? If someone leaves the company, we want to be able to delete all the company data from our company owned devices. We can do this with our [...]

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2011  7:20 PM
Exchange, Mobile networking technology, Mobile security, Networking, Remote access, Security, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile Device

SSL VPN risks?
What are the real-life security risks of implementing SSL VPN? Data loss, exploit from unprotected system, SSL botnets, etc.

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  2:39 PM
Data Loss Prevention, Networking, SSL, SSL error, SSL VPN licenses, VPN, VPN security

VPN over dynamic IP address
I want to host my source code control environment (SVN) on a server at home, accessible through VPN. I have a dynamic IP address. Does anyone have suggestions for hardware (router/servers) and software. Looking to keep a low expense, but something that will get the job done well. I have a Linksys WRT54G broadband router [...]

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  2:24 PM
IPsec, IPsec Passthrough, IPsec VPN, Linksys WRT54G, Networking, Networking Equipment, Source code control software, SVN, VPN

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Answer Question   |  May 26, 2011  1:31 PM
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