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Out Now: Official PST to Exchange Import Tool

If you have ever had anything to do with Outlook in your organisation you will no doubt have some experience (pain) with the use of PST files. PST files are of course the main way users can store their email information on their local hard drive or network share (Network stored PST files don’t do it) thus avoiding the email…

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Posted in Security

Introducing Microsoft Security Compliance Manager v2

If you have anything to do with Group Policy and/or security in your organisation you have probably already taken a look at Microsoft Security Compliance Manager tool. This tool simply put is an repository of security templates with a lot of additional information that can be applied to organisation to maintain security of your system in accordance with recommend practices from…

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Posted in Best Practice Tutorials

How to manage Windows Firewall settings using Group Policy

In this article I am going to talk about how you can use Group Policy to control the firewall that comes out of the box with Windows but first I want to give you a bit of history of the evolution of host based firewall in Windows. Firewalls have long been around for year protecting internal corporate networks from outside…

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