I’m happy to announce the release of Vantage 2.2! Download Vantage 2.2 here.
All three products in the Vantage range (Premium, Giga and Ultimate) have been updated with the following features: (more…)
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Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3 Now available
Friday, June 12th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog regarding Microsoft’s upcoming Beta 3 release of Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) which will be replacing Microsoft ISA server.
Well, it’s now been released and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center: (more…)
Microsoft to announce Beta 3 for Threat Management Gateway (the new ISA Server)
Monday, May 18th, 2009
It sounds like Threat Management Gateway (TMG), the new re-branded version of ISA Server, has been a popular topic at this years TechEd event in the US.
According to the latest blog from TMG’s Product Unit Manager, David B. Cross, Beta 3 will be released in the next couple of weeks. As for the full release, David says that they are still on track for Q4 this calendar year. (more…)
Vantage now with multi-processing!
Monday, April 20th, 2009
We’ve been doing some work lately to make Vantage take advantage of multi-cpu and multi-core processors. It looks like we’ve improved the performance of importing multiple log files by around 50%, and the most common reporting scenarios by around 30% (tested on a quad-core CPU). Before we release this build into the wild, I’d like to give it as much field testing as possible. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this build, (more…)
Updates to Vantage, Analyzer & Live
Friday, April 17th, 2009
We’ve issued a bunch of auto updates for nearly all WebSpy products today
Of particular note is a fix to the Vantage range:
- Fix: Improved partition matching when filtering by a date range
This will benefit you if you’re running reports with a date range filter such as last week or yesterday (which is pretty much everyone), and are using the default storage partitioning scheme of “Date” (again… pretty much everyone). (more…)
Disabling time synchronization between guest and host in Microsoft Virtual PC
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Microsoft Virtual PC synchronizes the time between the guest and host operating systems. This is great until you have the need to set the clock forward or backwards in your VM, as it snaps back to the current time after about 5 seconds.
I went hunting through the options in the Virtual PC UI but didn’t find anything related to disabling this option. A bit of googling later and I’ve got it disabled by adding a few lines of XML to the .vmc file. (more…)
