http://www.prostructure.com/blog A blog about high-end IT Infrastructure and Security Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:52:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The documentation for SharePoint 2010 is gradually being filled in, but one important piece seems to be missing: the comparison of the feature sets for the Server and Foundation Editions. Some organizations are deploying their first SharePoint farm with the 2010 Beta and need this edition information to choose ... http://www.prostructure.com/blog/2010/02/26/sharepoint-2010-edition-comparison/ This error is showing up in quite a few forum posts with no definitive solution. I was able to resolve this for a MOSS 2007 small farm running on Windows Server 2008 64-bit. The main symptom is that when you try to open your search settings in the ... http://www.prostructure.com/blog/2009/10/08/moss-2007-search-service-is-currently-offline/ Microsoft has written a step-by-step instructional for setting up a proof of concept lab to demonstrate NAP with 802.1X on the new Windows 2008 NPS. NPS on Windows 2008 replaces IAS on Windows 2003, and new Network Access Protection functionality is now built in. The guide can be ... http://www.prostructure.com/blog/2009/09/21/nap-8021x-for-windows-xp-xp3/ I needed to move a SharePoint 2007 front end from a Windows 2003 32-bit to a Windows 2008 64-bit server while leaving the databases on the existing SQL 2005 server. The contents of this article appear many different places and appear to be the Microsoft accepted method for accomplishing ... http://www.prostructure.com/blog/2009/08/14/gradual-migration-of-a-moss-2007-farm-from-32-bit-windows-2003-to-64-bit-windows-2008/ Year Number of 802.11 packets required to crack WEP 2001 - 2004 5-10 million  (FMS attack) 2004 - 2007 500k (unique IVs) on average for 128-bit WEP  (Korek attack) 2007 - 2008 40k (ARP packets) using the PTW attack 2008 - Present 25k (replayed packets)  using the ARP replay ... http://www.prostructure.com/blog/2009/06/29/a-brief-history-of-wep-cracking/ I needed to upgrade MOSS 2007 farm on a Windows 2003 Server from the RTM version to Service Pack 1 as a required step to prepare for a migration to Windows 2008 64-bit.  The process involved installing the WSS 3.0 SP1, ignoring the Configuration Wizard, running the MOSS 2007 SP1, ... http://www.prostructure.com/blog/2009/05/12/error-upgrading-moss-2007-to-service-pack-1/ Let me start by saying this:   I am not a fan of CoyotePoint load balancers.    My support experiences so far have all been atrocious.   The system architecture is a cheap imitation of F5's BigIP architecture from a decade ago which constantly limits me.    I'm convinced that people only buy these ... http://www.prostructure.com/blog/2009/04/07/breathe-new-life-into-a-bogged-down-coyotepoint-load-balancer-with-dsr/ I recently had the pleasure of helping out with a Wordpress blog which had gone supernova.   Within hours of being linked to from several major news sites,  the server couldn't stay up for 10 minutes without something terrible happening. Unfortunately, Wordpress isn't setup for high performance operation out of the box.  ... http://www.prostructure.com/blog/2009/04/07/lesson-learned-high-traffic-wordpress-site-operation/ Research in Motion has just released security bulletin KB17118 that announces a new set of vulnerabilities in the Blackberry Attachment Service that runs on Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES). According to Blackberry, “these vulnerabilities could enable a malicious individual to send an email message containing a specially crafted PDF file, ... http://www.prostructure.com/blog/2009/01/13/critical-pdf-vulnerabilities-in-blackberry-enterprise-server/ Recently, I got an excellent chance to put my money where my mouth is. In the past, I've warned Windows shops to use unique local Administrator passwords wherever possible.  I've even proven the dangers of using the same local Administrator password during a penetration test in 2007.   Combine this with the ... http://www.prostructure.com/blog/2008/12/18/vbscript-code-to-change-the-local-administrator-password-throughout-an-entire-domain/