As I wrote in the article Installing FTP 7 on IIS 7.0, Microsoft completely rewrote the FTP service code for Server 2008.
Included in this update were a number of ways to secure your FTP server against intrusion. One of the easiest ways to secure your FTP site is to have users authenticate instead of allowing […]

I recently had my mother-in-law call me on the brink of tears! All because her data had been lost off of her USB flash drive.
The IT professional at her office’s solution was to pay $400 to get it recovered. But there is a much less costly alternative.
For this reason, I decided to share […]

IP Multicasting is an evolving technology that is used extensively nowadays for fulfilling the needs of streaming applications such as Voice and Video over IP.
Multicasting is proven to be very beneficial to network administrators due to its bandwidth-conserving behavior and broadcast-limitation achievement. IP Multicast allows a source to transmit a stream of data to […]

If you’ve been administrating IIS for any amount of time and had a need for FTP service you know that Windows Server has been lacking in that arena for years.
With the release of Server 2008 and IIS 7 I was hoping to see some improvements, but alas it wasn’t to be. As […]

To start today, I would like to thank you for being part of the Train Signal community. I’ve got some great news for everyone.
We have officially launched the new Train Signal Forums!
You can get to the Train Signal forums at http://forums.trainsignal.com — or from the link on top of the page at TrainSignal.com […]