April 26, 2005
How to get top 10 rankings on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search
A new software program helps webmasters to get high rankings on major search engines.
April 19, 2005
Google ranking secrents revealed - Part 3
Google has recently filed a patent that details many points that Google uses to rank web pages. This article series discusses Google ranking secrets that have been revealed in that report. This time: how links to your website and their changes can affect your rankings.
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Google ranking secrents revealed - Part 2
Google has recently filed a patent that details many points that Google uses to rank web pages. This article series discusses Google ranking secrets that have been revealed in that report. This time: how your domain name can affect your rankings.
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Microsoft Hosting Solutions and Windows 2003 Service Pack 1
The guidance to ALL Customers who have deployed the Windows based Hosting Solution, Hosted Exchange, and/or Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Solutions should NOT deploy Service Pack 1 thoughout the environment.
Do NOT install Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 in your production Hosted Environment as it will break certain area. There will be an updated version of these solutions with the proper workarounds and fixes to enable this scenario in the future (no official date set yet, but they”re working on it hard).
We (eQuest) are building a Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 Readiness Program to assess a production environment and show where SP1 can be deployed in the environment and where it can”t (and why). I”ll post more details on this soon on my blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/conrad) or you”ll find it soon on the eQuest website (http://www.eqinc.com)
On the (http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/solutions/windowsbasedhosting.mspx) official Microsoft site for “Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting 3.0″ (same text for HMC 3.0), there is some text on the recommendation for SP1 and the solutions. Below is the text from that site.
Recommendations for Hosters on Windows Server 2003 SP1 |
Microsoft Corporation has released Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. The service pack focuses on tightening security by locking down a number of operating system capabilities, and these security enhancements will help protect our hosting partners from potential viruses and malicious code threats. Microsoft Hosting Solutions has finished component level testing of the Windows-based Hosting and Hosted Messaging and Collaboration solutions. As a result, we are recommending that hosters using either of the above solutions should not update to Service Pack 1 at this time. Rather, hosters should wait for the next scheduled release of the Windows-based Hosting Solution in June, or the September release of Hosted Messaging and Collaboration if they are hosting Exchange Server. This recommendation is based on the fact that Service Pack 1 focuses primarily on three areas, “Locking down the servers with Group Policy enforcement”, “Tightened protocol communication” and additional “diagnostic tools”. The above solutions currently address the first two of these areas; Group Policy management is implemented extensively, and protocol communication is limited to the back end servers. The solutions offer diagnostic tools through services like Microsoft Operations Manager but not at the core operating system level. The decision to focus on our next release of the Windows-based Hosting solution (which is currently scheduled to release in June) will give our hosting partners the opportunity to finish testing Service Pack 1 in their environments. This release will fully support Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. Our next release scheduled for September of Hosted Messaging and Collaboration aligns with the release of Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server and will include support for Service Pack 1 for Windows 2003. |
Here is some helpful links on Windows 2003 SP1:
- Technical Details: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/servicepack/default.mspx
- (WindowsSecurity.com) Security Configuration Wizard in SP1: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Security-Configuration-Wizard-Windows-Server-2003-SP1.html
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Production deployment of Hosted Exchange using Virtual Server/VMware
It appears that Exchange is NOT supported on a virtualized platform. Using VMWare or Microsoft Virtual Server is a great way to deploy Exchange in a Proof of Concept, development, or testing is a great scenario for saving boxes, but it’s not a supported scenario in production as noted in the Microsoft Support article below.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320220
