How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010?
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Protecting virtual machines is also essential as protecting physical machines. You can use System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) to achieve that, but there is a small problem. System administrators can protect an entire Hyper-V host using the DPM Management Console, but the protection group has to be modified manually to include the new virtual [...]
The Microsoft Security Update Guide
Friday, November 27th, 2009Just a short share for you: The Microsoft Security Update Guide is available to download. This is 113-pages document that has been designed to help IT professionals better understand and use Microsoft security release information, processes, communications, and tools. In this Guide, you will find a convenient glossary of terms, an overview of the Microsoft [...]
Hyper-V Security Guide
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009I have just found this news on Microsoft Virtualization User Group UK blog. It’s about Hyper-V Security Guide at TechNet, document that 41 pages covering all security problems you should consider when deploying Hyper-V in your environment. I think this document is must-read for every system administrator who want’s to deploy Hyper-V, so check out [...]
How to enable Automatic updates in Windows Server 2008 Core?
Thursday, March 19th, 2009In my previous post about Windows Server Core, I wrote how to change the IP address of server running Windows Server Core. In this post I’m going to describe the process of enabling automatic updates in Windows Server 2008 Core. The whole process is quite simple, you have few commands to enable/disable automatic, install an [...]
Work place of system admins
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Most people think that security of computers and computer networks is only virtual security, that you must have antivirus, firewall and other security thing installed on PC. But only few of them think that physical security is also very important. There is one of 10 laws of computer security: If an attacker can gain access [...]
Network Access Protection step-by-step guides
Friday, February 6th, 2009Few days ago I was in the process of writing an article for Croatian computer magazine Mreza (Network). The theme was Network Access Protection (NAP). NAP is a policy enforcement platform built into Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows XP Service Pack 3 that allows you to better protect network assets by enforcing compliance [...]
Security Days 2008
Saturday, September 27th, 20086th Security Days will be held in Hotel Antunovic, Zagreb, from September 29th – September 30th 2008. This conference covers many topics, especially enterprise security, and keyword on this year’s conference will be virtualization (slogan means: Time for virtualization is now). I’m glad I’m gonna participate in this conference (thanks to Microsoft Croatia), and I’m [...]