Monday, 26 April 2010

Show season is here: Infosec 2010 at Earls Court

The biggest information security show in Europe is upon us and Infosec 2010 will be hosted Earls Court from Tuesday 27th to Thursday 29th April.

A number of our vendors will have stands there, including:

Barracuda - Stand J65
Celestix - Stand J72
Lumension - Stand H50
VASCO - Stand G40
Websense - H10
WinMagic - F82

If you want a chat or a catch up, drop me a mail.

See you there and enjoy the show!

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Friday, 12 March 2010

ASP Error when configuring File Access within IAG

I was on site when I encountered an odd issue.  When configuring the File Access component within IAG, we got teh following ASP error:

Request object error 'ASP 0104:80004005'

Operation not allowed /whalefilesharingadmin/computers.asp, line 47
Thanks for Senthil from Celestix who found the answer to this.

The error was being caused due to the size limit in IIS for the maximum number of bytes allowed in the entity body of an ASP request.

The answer is to locate this file:

C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv\metabase.xml

and modify the following value:

AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed to 1073741824

This changes the excepted size limit to 1GB.

Testing IAG SP2 Update 3 - Part 3

Having been distracted from IAG with the impending launch of UAG on the Celestix platform, and Websense launching their Triton platform, I finally found time today to do some more testing.

Uri from Eurodata dropped me an email checking if my AD repository was the same as my domain (which it isn't!), as this would save having to edit inc files after an upgrade.  Step 9 of the following article: http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2008/07/24/publishing-microsoft-activesync-through-iag-2007-part-1-of-2.aspx

Today I reset my demo appliance and tried the following:
  • Configure the networking components of my Celestix WSA applaince
  • Install Java, Active Perl, SP2 and SP2 Update 2
  • Create an ActiveSync trunk
  • Import my Exchange certificate
  • Use an AD repository that is named the same my domain
  • Modify the ASP file mentioned above
  • Test - Success!
  • Install SP2 Update 3
  • Test - Success!
  • Recreate my portal trunk for my applications
  • Test - Success!
Now IAG SP2 Update 3 is working successfully in a new installation (albeit via SP2 Update 2, rather than straight to SP2 Update 3), I will try an in-place upgrade on my known working appliance.

Thanks for the email Uri, as it motivated me to look at this issue again!! :)

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Microsoft TMG Arrays Explained...

TMG arrays explained by someone (Richard Hicks of Celestix Networks & Microsoft MVP) who knows what they are talking about on ISAserver.org

Thursday, 25 February 2010

Barracuda Backup Service

I briefly mentioned the Barracuda Backup Service after attending the EMEA partner conference, but what if you want to know more.....

Well e92plus are hosting a technical training session on the HMS Belfast in London on Friday 19th March.

More information and registration for this event can be found here: http://www.e92plus.com/training-and-events/training-detail/10-03-19/Barracuda_Backup_Technical_Workshop.aspx

Celestix MSA voted ISAserver.org Readers Choice Award Winner

Congratulations to Celestix for their MSA Security Appliance on winning the ISAserver.org readers' choice award for hardware appliances.

Read more about it here: http://isaserver.org/news/ISAserver-Readers-Choice-Award-Hardware-Appliances-Celestix-MSA-Security-Appliance-Jan10.html

Testing IAG SP2 Update 3 - Part 2

Here is some useful information from the MS UAG Blog about IAG SP2 Update 3.

The table in the link is very useful at summerising what is and isn't supported.

Socket forwarding is not supported by any 64 bit Windows operating system, as well as Mac & Linux machines.  I have seen this with my Windows 7 64 laptop, which does not work with published RDP sessions, but can confirm that XP compatibility mode does work.

The Network Connector will not work with either 32 or 64 bit Windows 7 machines, as well as Mac & Linux machines.  I can confirm this as a customer and I have tested this, although I have yet to test a Windows 7 in XP compatibility mode with the Network Connector, but I suspect it will work.

Although this update was meant to be the "fix" for Windows 7 and IAG, I'm afraid there are still limitations.

IAG is dead.... long live UAG!