How to Installing Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010

6 Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, or commonly referred to as TMG 2010, is the long awaited latest and greatest release of Microsoft’s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) server in which we have all come to love or hate over the years.   TMG builds on ISA’s ability to deliver a comprehensive application layer reverse proxy firewall and is usually deployed on the edge of your network or in between an existing edge such as a firewall provided by Cisco or Checkpoint.  Today, I will begin a series of articles on installing and configuring Forefront TMG 2010, discuss some of the new features that have been integrated into this release before providing a step by step guide in securely...

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How to Lock your PC – but not your screen – with KeyFreeze

If you’re leaving your PC unattended for a while then locking it (pressing Win+L) can be a sensible precaution, as it prevents others from viewing your files or interfering with running programs. The Windows Lock function also hides the current contents of the screen, though, annoying if you want to leave a movie playing, or perhaps monitor the progress of some lengthy task you’re running. And that’s why might sometimes prefer KeyFreeze, which locks your PC but leaves the screen active, just as before. The program is tiny – a single 341KB executable – and portable. There are no unwanted extras here, just unzip it and you’re ready to go. When you need to lock your system, just launch it. You’ll see a five second countdown, just...

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Firefox 23 FINAL enables mixed content blocking, consolidates search settings

Mozilla has released Firefox 23.0 FINAL, the latest version of its open-source, cross-platform browser for Windows, Mac and Linux. The new build’s main highlight is the implementation of mixed-content blocking for improved security, but it also comes with a host of minor changes, including one that has already provoked a negative response from power users. The controversial change is the consolidation of search default preferences so both Address bar and Search bar use the same default search engine. Previously Address bar searches defaulted to Google regardless of the default provider set in the Search bar. The major consequence of this move is that the keyword.url configuration option has been removed, which previously allowed...

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Connectify Lite 6.0 sports new look, adds random password generator

Virtual router Connectify Lite 6.0 has been released, boasting a redesigned look, more flexible user interface and new menu bar alongside a random password generator. Connectify makes it possible for users to turn their computer’s network connection – wired or wireless – into a personal Wi-Fi hotspot through their PC’s wireless network adapter. There is also a Pro version with enhanced and exclusive features not found in the free build. Connectify Lite 6.0’s most visible change is its new look. The user interface, which is accessed via the program’s Notification area icon, can now be resized and dragged anywhere on the desktop for ease of access. It’s also no longer always on top of other windows, so can be hidden when not required. Users...

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Quickly search and explore thousands of plain text files with Depeche View Lite

Searching one or two plain text files is easy. Windows Search and Notepad will probably be enough. But when you need to browse ten files, a hundred, maybe even thousands, then you’re likely to need a little specialist assistance. And that’s where the free-for-personal-use Depeche View Lite comes in. Point this tiny portable program at a location and it will open every plain text file in that folder tree (up to a maximum of 10,000 in this build, anyway – the $40 commercial version is unrestricted). These are all displayed in a flat view, one above the other, and that alone can be useful as it’s easy to scroll down and browse them all. When you do have a lot of files then you’ll soon want to start searching, of course, and this is...

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How to connect TP-Link wireless IP camera to router wireless

Before you can configure wireless camera to connect to your router wirelessly, you need to get the following information first. Usually you can find them on your wireless router. If you don’t know how to get it, please contact the representative of your wireless router. The SSID, or the network name of your wireless router Wireless security settings on your wireless router. After gather the information above, you can follow the steps below to configure the camera.   Step 1 Using an Ethernet cable to connect the camera to the LAN port of the wireless router first. We need wired connection to configure the router at the very beginning.   Step 2 On a desktop or laptop which is connected to the same wireless router,...

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How to Create Users and User Templates in Windows Server 2008 Active Directory

You probably already know that a User Account in Active Directory is an Active Directory Object, or simply said, a record in an AD database. Most of the time we create user accounts for people, however user accounts can also be created for applications or processes.User accounts allow a person to access resources on a network. But we can just as easily deny access to certain resources on the network through the user account. That’s why, User Account Objects are quite important and very useful.Today I’ll show you how easy it is to create a new user account, create a user template and how to use a template in Server 2008 Active Directory. Next week we’ll discuss User Groups and Organizational Units. Now, let’s get started with creating a user...

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How to Configuring Active Directory (AD DS) in Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 introduces a plethora of new features with a key emphasis on Cloud integration being the buzz word in the industry over the last 24 months.  Windows continues to grow and mature as an operating system with the latest iteration being more secure, reliable and robust and more importantly making it easily interoperable with other systems. This post will focus on Installing a Windows 2012 Server and then promoting it as the first domain controller in a new Forest.  Even though the logical steps haven’t really changed dramatically since the introduction of Windows 2008, the interface has! especially with the new metro look.  So let’s begin our journey with Windows Server 2012...

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