John Howie

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John Howie is the Chief Operating Officer of the Cloud Security Alliance. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Arizona and at Edinburgh Napier University.

Articles by John Howie

Information Rights Management in Exchange 2010

New tools in Exchange 2010 give enterprises the ability to send, read, and reply to rights-protected email messages through OWA, as well as apply rights policy templates to messages based on matching conditions.

Supporting IPv6 in Your Windows Server 2008 Environment

Changes in Windows Server 2008 bring new support for IPv6. Here are the steps you need to take to deploy IPv6 in your environment.

How to Implement SDI Using IPSec in a Mixed Environment

This step-by-step guide shows you how to configure UNIX and Linux OSs to use IPSec with preshared keys so that Server and Domain Isolation (SDI) is supported for both outgoing and incoming connections.

Managing Your Migration and Transition from IPv4 to IPv6

We wrap up the series by providing solutions for supporting and using both IPv4 and IPv6, and showing you a means with which to connect remote sites running IPv6 over an IPv4 link.

Safeguard Sensitive Content with Information Rights Management

Learn how rights-management tools let Office-content creators bind access and usage limitations to sensitive documents to prevent unauthorized use and distribution.

Install and Configure System Center Essentials 2007

Get Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 up and running, then start using it to manage systems and deploy updates in your midsized environment.

Move Apps from UNIX to Windows with SUA - 10 Sep 2008

Executive Summary: With the release of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, it’s a good time for enterprises to consider moving some of their legacy line-of-business applications from UNIX to Windows using Microsoft’s Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). Easy? Yes. Intriguing? Ditto.

Microsoft has provided support for UNIX applications on its flagship OSs since the release of Windows NT 3.1, which shipped with a POSIXcompliant subsystem.

Move Apps from UNIX to Windows with SUA - 27 Aug 2008

Take advantage of Microsoft's new Subsystem for UNIX-Based Applications (SUA) with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 for an intriguing alternative to UNIX Systems.

Simplify Security Reporting Using Audit Collection Services 1

Follow the steps to set up Audit Collection Services, a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 reporting feature, then start using it to streamline security event-log auditing on your servers.

MOSS 2007’s Security Features 4

By leveraging MOSS 2007’s security features when building internal collaboration Web sites, you can ensure those sites' security and provide audit trails showing user access to hosted content.

Configuring a Web Application to Use Kerberos

Microsoft recommends that you use Kerberos with MOSS 2007 because Kerberos is considered to be more secure than NTLM. Here's what you need to do to use Kerberos to authenticate to MOSS 2007.

LDAP Authentication - 12 Dec 2007

LDAP Limitations

Although many administrators consider LDAP to be more secure than NIS, it has several limitations.

LDAP Authentication - 28 Nov 2007 4

Network Information Service (NIS) Master and Slave servers let you easily integrate UNIX and Linux clients into a Windows environment. However, LDAP offers a more secure alternative than NIS. Learn how to implement LDAP in a UNIX/Linux environment.

The Inevitability of IPv6, Part 2 2

You know how IPv6 addressing works, and now you want to know how to install and configure IPv6 in your Windows network. You want to know how to use IPv6 to communicate, even if your routing infrastructure doesn’t yet support it. We show you how.

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Testing with Visual Studio 2012

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