Tag Archive: server

Computer maker Acer is getting into the home server business, announcing its new easyStore Home Server is now available in the United States, targeting multi-PC households and small businesses looking to centralize backups along with media and document access. Built around an Intel Atom processor and Windows Home Server, the Aspire easyStore AH340-UA230N Home Server is designed to make it easy for home and businesses with multiple PCs to centralize their data, media, and documents, as well as access their material securely from anywhere in the world where they can get media access. And the easyStore Home Server is set up to handle a ton of data, shipping with 1 TB of storage and three empty hot-swappable drive bays (plus USB and eSATA ports) for adding more capacity.

Yes, it’s that time of the month again. Tomorrow is Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft has announced it will be releasing just four fixes for February, two of them ‘critical’ and two ‘important.’

The first critical fix addresses flaws in Internet Explorer 7 in both XP and Vista, the although Server 2003 and Server 2008 systems are just considered moderate risks.

However, the server systems do get a ‘critical’ patch for flaws in the SQL Server engine.

The two ‘important’ patches are for vulnerabilities in Exchange Server 2000, 2003 and 2007, and for a flaw in the Microsoft Office Visio diagram-building tool that addresses vulnerabilities in Visio 2002, 2003 and 2007.

According to its Critical Patch Pre-Release Announcement, Oracle will be issuing one of its large, periodic patches today to address security vulnerabilities in its products – in this case a total of 41 fixes.

They address several versions of Oracle Database, Secure Backup, Application Server, WebLogic Server and Portal, and more.

Oracle is recommending that customers apply the fixes as soon as possible.

Following up on the company’s February promise to offer developers the information they need to interoperate with WIndows Vista and key server technologies, Microsoft has posted more than 14,000 pages of preliminary technical documentation on the Open Protocol Specifications area of its MSDN site. The new material brings the total amount of published protocol documentation to over 44,000 pages that any developer can access for free.

The new documentation covers protocols built into Microsoft Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Exchange Server 2007, including interaction between Exchange Server and Outlook, communication between SharePoint Server and other Microsoft server products, and communications between SharePoint and Microsoft Office applications.