GroupWise sites who have Blackberry Enterprise Server should think about upgrading off of 4.1.7 to 5.0.x. https://www.novell.com/communities/node/13343/heads-blackberry-users

“ASHRAE’s Design Considerations for Data and Communications Equipment Centers recommends relative humidity conditions between 40% and 55%, with an allowable level between 20% and 80%.”

This Networkworld article re-states from Microsoft what I stated in my “Steps you can take to improve the security and worker productivity on your computers and servers” post.   Most infections are due to lax updating and patching standards rather than previously unknown viruses preying upon your computers.

Recently I wrote the post “Ensuring Maximum Stability of Blackberry Enterprise Server”.   Blackberry just had a very nice companion article on identifying and troubleshooting messaging delays.  You can read it here.

When I was involved in a case with the US Secret Service, they brought in an “ethical hacker” as their computer consultant.   One of the techniques used against businesses is to target key individuals in the company and send them emails with infected links and attachments.

https://www.novell.com/communities/node/13289/groupwise-mobility-kill-pill

https://www.novell.com/communities/node/13288/changing-groupwise-mailbox-capacity

https://www.novell.com/communities/node/13218/groupwise-groupwise-802-hp3-ships  

This is an excellent article from Microsoft TechNet on the navigating complexities of DNS scavenging.   DNS scavenging is a means of helping DNS clean up after itself.  https://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2008/03/19/don-t-be-afraid-of-dns-scavenging-just-be-patient.

Here is a post from Microsoft TechNet discussing issues with Microsoft Excel that have cropped up since MS11-072 came out and was applied.   The article describes the issue and provides a work around for the two scenarios that Microsoft is seeing.   One is dead links and the other is attempting to save an Excel file […]