Windows 2000/2003 Security

Best Practice: Patches that are not critical or security related

paulc2480 - 28 Sep 2006 6:28 PM - 2 messages

What is the best practice for installing patches that are not listed as "Critical" or "Security" related? Does Microsoft have an official stand on this? Some would say push them all to be safe and fix any potential issues. On ...

W2K ESENT Event ID 454, error -515 every 5 minutes

Ken Reeder - 27 Sep 2006 12:27 AM - 2 messages

On a Windows 2000, SP4 domain controller two messages are posted to the application log every 5 minutes (for the past 3 weeks). Other than the log messages, there is no other apparent impact of the problem. The first message is an error message: ...

MS06-055 released for VML issue

Roger Abell [MVP] - 26 Sep 2006 9:26 PM - 3 messages

This is probably staged out most places by now The Microsoft Advisory [link] has been updated to reflect release of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-055 Vulnerability in Vector Markup Language Could Allow Remote Code Execution ...

Password Protecting/Hiding Files & Folders on Windows 2003 server???

shannonwhitty - 24 Sep 2006 9:30 AM - 6 messages

I have a situation which, to date, no password protection/file encryption/hiding software has been able to resolve... I am at a point where I do not believe that there is actually a program to fit my needs!!! We are using Active Directory and have a file server for all users to ...