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We are proud to announce our Strategic Solutions Expo & Golf Outing at Turner Hill! Join strategic vendors, senior technology managers, and the Rutter team on October 2nd, 2012 for a fun and informative day spent on the links. Meet Rutter's customers and partners and hear their updates and offerings in a relaxed and comfortable setting. While Turner Hill may be considered one of the premiere courses in New England in terms of exclusivity and prestige, make sure to bring your 'A' game! This course packs quite the punch!

Join Rutter Networking Technologies, Inc. & Check Point Software for an in-depth discussion on the current threat of Targeted Malware featuring Tomer Teller.

Rutter Networking is a proud corporate sponsor of the ALS Association Massachusetts Chapter and Walk Program.  This local program provides continued patient service programs in addition to  developing cutting-edge ALS research.

One of the things we have been hearing quite a bit about lately is the Mobile Device Management (MDM) space and how this is a growing challenge for a number or organizations.

While this is nothing new, I was speaking with a few customers this week and was reminded that not everyone knows about this great piece of software from Blue Coat.

When consulting with an engineering firm planning an Active Directory consolidation, I found the customer was concerned about the time it would take for security translation for their file servers. I explained that even if the file is open the migration software can still translate the ACL, as it only accesses the metadata, not the actual data in the file. This means that an offline maintenance window doesn’t have to be scheduled, but performance might be slow while the translation agent is running on the server.

An interesting problem came up after a migration where the customer did not want to copy all the data from the old domain’s NETLOGON share into the new company’s Domain Controllers. However, there were several batch files and VB scripts referencing the old Domain Controller and NETLOGON path. We had to come up with a solution to allow the old files to execute properly. (There was a long term plan to migrate all this information to Group Policy objects, but that is months away.)

One key aspect of Exchange Online is the SSO experience. With single sign-on, also called identity federation, users can access services in Microsoft Office 365 for enterprises with their existing Active Directory corporate credentials (user name and password). Benefits of a native SSO experience include the reduction of support calls (forgotten passwords), and the means for administrators to manage account policies through their on-premise Active Directory ecosystem.
To get this level of fidelity, however, requires the adoption of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS 2.0). Without diving into specifics, ADFS provides the means for SSO by securely sharing digital identity and entitlement rights (claims) across security and enterprise boundaries. So in a way, ADFS is your identity interface to the cloud (Office 365). So if your company values SSO as you move your mail to the cloud, ADFS would be needed if you are aiming for Exchange Online.

It has been in the works for quite some time, but a new version of NMAP was released this week! This is exciting news for those of us who rely on the NMAP tool in our day to day jobs. It's taken three years (the last major release was in 2009), but my early take on it regarding some basic testing is that it was well worth the wait. The creators have listed the following as the six major improvements/features:

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