Spent the last two days bonding with IIS 6, finding out how it works, then how it should work and keeping it working despite loonie applications attempting to stuff it up and shoot it down in flames. The training was split in to day one of the architecture of Windows/IIS 6, the features and components [...]
There’s a Ms hotfix for Forefront client which comes done via WSUS. This update requires a reboot. This obviously sucks. As a cheat I extracted the KB938054 download from Ms Catalog service and then dragged out mp_ambits.msi and replaced the old version of the mp_ambits.msi with it for x86 and x64. I then used SMS [...]
Found this on the Ms technet forums after hacking up a batch script to do the same sort of thing. ****************************************************************** ‘ Purpose: Launches install of Forefront client in ‘ standalone mode ‘***************************************************************** Option Explicit Dim WshShell Dim MsgVar1 Dim MsgVar2 MsgVar1 = “Install Forefront Security” MsgVar2 = “Install Microsoft Forefront?” & VbCrLf & VbCrLf [...]
I noticed that using WSUS means that you can easily muck up some of the settings and deploy software or even randomly reboot machines. Not good. Here’s the Windows Update I recommend if your not using WSUS to deploy other patches to your machines. A couple of them aren’t really required, but make me feel [...]
Downloaded the public beta and popped it on to a test 2008 domain a few weeks ago. So far, it’s making me look forward to Forefront v2 and what ISA 2008 or Threat Management Gateway as it’s been called, offers.
