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Microsoft Update

June 28th, 2005 by jasonpearce

Earlier this month, Microsoft released a few patch-management tools to help ease the process of fixing flaws in their software. The two tools, Windows Server Update Services (or WSUS) and Microsoft Update, were made available on Monday, June 7.
Microsoft Update is designed to replace the current Windows Update and Office Update services. MU will [...]

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Connection Filtering

June 22nd, 2005 by jasonpearce

Shawn Wheeler (Alpha Chi Omega) and I were talking about spam filtering today. I mentioned Lambda Chi Alpha uses Microsoft’s Exchange Intelligent Message Filter to weed out most of the junk. It’s free, so it meets our budget.
I also mentioned we use several Block List Services (e.g. SpamHaus, SpamCop) to filter emails before they [...]

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