Submitted by MCA Admin 1 on 20 December, 2012 - 08:50
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We’ve shared a lot on this blog about the business features and value of Windows 8, including stories from some of the early adopters who are taking advantage of Windows 8 in a lot of ways, from tablets to apps, to Windows To Go. Security has been mentioned in almost every one of these instances, but we haven’t gone into great detail; so today I’d like to provide you with a deeper dive on the investments we’ve made in Windows 8 security. In the weeks and months to come, I’ll continue to share more information on the features within these investment areas as well, so stay tuned!
Submitted by MCA Admin 1 on 23 May, 2012 - 04:14
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The latest Ultrabook in my collection is the HP Folio. The HP Folio is a slim, business-focused 13” notebook with a rich, glossy display, and incredible battery life. Like other PCs built for business, the HP Folio comes with Windows 7 Professional, TPM, on-board Ethernet, and business-level service and support options. The HP Folio has some great user experience aspects for both work and play. For work, the keyboard and battery life are exceptional. For play, the Dolby Advanced Audio provides some of the best sound that I have ever experienced on a notebook PC. All of this comes in a 3.3 pound, 0.7” package that can be found for under $1,000. The model I tested comes with Windows 7 Professional, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, TPM and an Intel Core i5 processor. If you’re already sold on these specs alone, the HP Folio is broadly available from HP and HP resellers (including the Microsoft Store, of course).
Submitted by MCA Admin 1 on 24 April, 2012 - 02:29
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For the past few weeks I have been working with the sleek and stylish Toshiba Portégé Z830. The Portégé Z830 is one of the lightest 13” PC on the market, weighing in at just under 2.5 pounds, and incredibly thin at just 16 mm (a literal hair over 0.6”). The Portégé Z830 is an Ultrabook built for business with features that include a spill-resistant LED backlit keyboard, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, Gigabit Ethernet port and VGA port. The version of the Ultrabook I tested ran Windows 7 Professional and came with 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD and an Intel Core i5 processor with vPro support for a MSRP of $1199. Models are available with up to an i7 processor and 6 GB of RAM direct from Toshiba and other resellers (including the Microsoft Store, of course).
Submitted by MCA Admin 1 on 13 April, 2012 - 23:31
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Today at work, we migrated the first box to Solaris 11 and we experienced the first bug as soon as we needed to log in onto the server.
As theses delays are quite common when the SSHd is configured by default, I quickly added theses lines to remove GSSAPI and DNS common issues:
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
LookupClientHostnames no
VerifyReverseMapping no
GSSAPIAuthentication no
Although, theses settings didn't fixed the problem.
I added some verbosity to both ssh client and server and tracked down the delay to happen at this stage of the connection:
