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Port 48195 – increased attacks

Wayne Small — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:51:26 GMT

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I was onsite today with a client and they still use Scorpion Softwares Firewall Dashboard product to monitor their ISA 2004 server. The morning report came in and it showed that from some time yesterday there had been a massive increase in the attacks on their server. I dug a little deeper and found that the attacks were all destined for port 48195. I did some digging and found nothing out there at the moment, so I pinged a few security people I know (Susan Bradley and Dana Epp) – they too knew nothing.

From what I can see – the source IP’s are all different Aussie ISPs – it makes me suspect that there is some Malware out there on infected machines that is trying to attack various hosts. Watch out for more on this as I find out.

Category: Troubleshooting

Published: 3/07/2009 10:51 AM

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SBS 2008 joins Social Media

Wayne Small — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:18:55 GMT

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Microsoft need your help…. In FY10 they are adopting a social media strategy that includes not only their own assets such as blogs, forums and newsgroups, but also third party social platforms like Facebook and Twitter. In part due to the high adoption of IT pros of both Twitter and Facebook, and the low cost awareness these types of assets can create.

Facebook recently announced a vanity url program, but in order to qualify as a page we need to have 100 fans. From today we need to get to 100 fans as quickly as possible. Our goal is to meet this requirement before WPC in two weeks. Here is where I need your help;

Can you please become a fan by going here http://www.facebook.com/pages/Windows-Small-Business-Server/88799484644 so we can push towards the magic 100.

Secondly, they’re soft launching our official SBS twitter feed in the next few days. please begin following as we’ll be announcing different items here as we ramp over the next few days and begin driving other awareness at WPC.

Category: SBS 2008 / Cougar

Published: 3/07/2009 9:18 AM

Free Guide “Getting Started with Companyweb”

Wayne Small — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:11:14 GMT

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Robert Crane – a local Sydney SharePoint Guru has released a free guide that gives a brief walkthrough on just what Companyweb is and what you can do with it. Robert is a wealth of knowledge on SharePoint particularly in the SBS / SMB space and his experience shows through in this guide.

SBS 2008 has built within it a very deep collaboration system based around Windows SharePoint Services which is a little brother to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. WSS can do some amazing things for your business in terms of it’s ability to centrally store and manage massive amounts of disparate information.

You can get a free copy of his guide here

You can also subscribe to his in-depth all questions answered Windows SharePoint Services Operations Guide here

Category: SBS 2008 / Cougar

Published: 2/07/2009 8:11 AM

What will you do different today?

Wayne Small — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:03:23 GMT

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Today marks the start of the new Financial year here in Australia. As part of the new financial I’ve been giving due consideration to business planning and in particular what I will do different this year vs last year. The world economy by all accounts is at it’s lowest in many tens of years. Here in Australia, the impact does not seem to be as hard as elsewhere in the rest of the world. Will it last? Will we be hit harder? Will it take a totally different tack? All in all I think that no one can really tell. The solution however is not in the future, but in the past. Look at what you did last year and question- how can you do better? What will you change? What do your customers want and how will you service them in what looks to be an ever competitive marketplace.

This is where a solid business plan comes in to help you establish your goals and focus on the path ahead. So the question to you all is how many HAVE a business plan? How have you compared your performance this last year to that business plan?

I’ll bet money that fewer than 10% of SMB IT Professionals out there actually have a business plan. Of those 10% I’ll bet that a smaller number still have taken the time to review their performance and compare it to that plan.

I once worked for a lady called Susie Welch – she was my sales manager at AST Research back in the early 90’s. She kept drumming into my head one thing… “If you fail to plan then you plan to fail”. Those thoughts stick with me to this very day.

Category: Business Focus

Published: 1/07/2009 8:03 AM

New SMB Virtualisation Group

Wayne Small — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:09:30 GMT

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Dave Sobel from Evolve Technologies has been doing Virtualisation in the SMB space for some time. He’s recently started a new Yahoogroup to focus on the unique questions and answers that might crop up.

You can join the group here

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbvirtualization/

Category: Virtualisation

Published: 30/06/2009 10:09 PM

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 – Want more info?

Wayne Small — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:22:17 GMT

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In the run up to the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans in two weeks, the EBS team are doing a push to see how far they can get with Social media and have a few things that they would like us all to do. Here’s an extract from an email from Nick King from the WESS team.

Can you please become a fan by going here http://www.facebook.com/pages/Windows-Essential-Business-Server/107556414738 so we can push towards the magic 100.

Secondly, we’re soft launching our official EBS twitter feed today too http://twitter.com/windowsebs please begin following (those of you on twitter) as we’ll be announcing different items here as we ramp over the next few days and begin driving other awareness at WPC.

Don’t forget ours and your other great assets too;

· EBS team blog

· EBS newsgroups

· EBS FAQ

· EBS Virtual User group

Category: EBS 2008

Published: 30/06/2009 5:22 PM

TechEd 2009 Australia –FREE HP Netbook with Windows 7

Wayne Small — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:16:38 GMT

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FREE – yeah – thought that might get your attention. There’s been a rumour going around that all attendees to TechEd 2009 in Australia would get a free HP NetBook – well – it’s now in the news so it must be true right :-)

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/148868,microsoft-gives-teched-delegates-windows-7-netbook.aspx

Don’t forget if you are a valid member of one of the SMB IT Professional / SBS groups in Australia and want to get a $500 discount to TechEd Australia email me and I’ll pass your name on for a discount code. NOTE – I WILL be checking to see if you are a member of a given group so no fast ones now!

Category: Training

Published: 30/06/2009 5:16 PM