How to Perform an Exchange Migration by Tanya Wiseman
In this phase, existing mail accounts and messages are migrated from the existing messaging environment to the Microsoft Exchange 2003 environment. Your migration strategy must be executed in a manner that is transparent and that has the minimum possible impact on your current e-mail users. ... The migration procedure involves these discrete steps: Setting up Microsoft Exchange 2003 in Proxy mode Changing the MX record Identifying accounts to be migrated Extracting account information Creating accounts in Microsoft Exchange 2003 Migrating messages Setting Up Microsoft Exchange 2003...

Securing Your Wireless LAN by Jonathan Coupal
Introduction It has become common practice to deploy wireless networks for convenience applications requiring users to be mobile. Also many "road warriors" have Wi-Fi accounts that let them access the Internet and the corporate network from remote locations. ... · Finally, most of the more sophisticated access points have adjustable signal strengths, varying from only a few milliwatts up to several hundred milliwatts. ... Varying the signal strength can prevent signal from leaking out of the building to surrounding buildings and parking lots, and can prevent eavesdroppers from picking up...

Planning A Backup And Restoration Of Files For Disaster Recovery by Roger Stuart
The Backup utility creates a copy of data on a hard disk of a computer and archives data on another storage media. Any storage media such as removable disks, tapes, and logical drives can be used as a backup storage. While taking a backup of files, the Backup utility creates a volume shadow copy... Following are the files included in the System State data: ·Boot files, including the system files and all files protected by Windows File Protection (WFP) ·Active Directory (on domain controller only) ·SYSVOL (on domain controller only) ·Certificate Services (on certification authority...

I Know What You Did Last Session: Basic Applied Cryptography by Jeremy Martin
While Janet was sitting in a cyber café sending emails to friends and surfing the web, there was a person sitting three tables away reading each email she sent before they ever got to the email server. During this period of time, the thief was able to get access to her bank account, passwords to... • RSA key exchange • IDEA encryption • MD5 hashing function CryptoAPI: Microsoft’s cryptography component that allows developers to encrypt data. ... PGP uses a web of trust that allows the community to trust a certificate rather than a hierarchy Certification Authority (CA) to verifythe...

Wireless at the Workplace by Jonathan Coupal
Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity, is a term promulgated by the non-profit Wireless Fidelity Alliance organization to designate products adhering to the IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless LANs. A Wi-Fi network broadcasts a radio signal, operating in the unlicensed 2.4 and 5 GHz radio bands, with a data... RADIUS is standard authentication technology used by many corporations to protect access to their wireless networks. ... · Remote Access Dial-Up User Service (RADIUS). ... It uses a user name and password scheme to verify the user's access rights to the network, and various levels of access can...