Monthly Archives: November 2009

• November 12, 2009

  Staying Agile: Microsoft System Center Online Desktop Manager

  Industry Trends \ Technology

  For many small businesses automated information technology (IT) management can appear to be an expensive proposition.  This is because the software found in larger enterprises to perform these functions aren’t typically offered in a way that is affordable or useful for small businesses.   New Signature has long worked to make automated and comprehensive IT management more affordable and accessible to small businesses.

  For example, New Signature provides hosted solutions for messaging, collaboration and telephony. For many clients, this eliminates much of the costs associated with managing their own infrastructure for these services.  However, this leaves a gap in an important area: desktop maintenance. Without a server onsite, desktops may not apply security patches or antivirus updates. Having a great hosted solution does no good, if one’s laptop is infected with malware or needs a new patch to increase performance. (more…)

• November 6, 2009

  A Solution to “Backscatter Spam”: Forefront 2010 for Microsoft Exchange Server

  Industry Trends \ Technology

  Spammers like to put fake information in their e-mail messages in order to sneak the message past e-mail spam filters.  Because e-mail filters reject messages that come from nonexistent domains, the spammers like to make their messages look like they come from real e-mail addresses.

  A spammer finds your address somewhere on the Internet, or sometimes just guesses it, and then puts it in the “from” line of his/her messages, sending them out to hundreds of thousands of recipients.  When the spam gets sent to an address that is no longer active, the recipient’s email server can sometimes send you a response message (because the email server sees your email address as the one to reply to).  This creates what is called “backscatter spam”. (more…)