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26 06, 2009

Vantage 2.2 now available!

By | 2009-06-26T03:55:14+00:00 June 26th, 2009|Software Updates, Uncategorized, Vantage, WebSpy, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

I'm happy to announce the release of Vantage 2.2! All three products in the Vantage range (Premium, Giga and Ultimate) have been update with the following features: Multi-processing, Improved report styles, Updated Aliases and Profiles, Storage Repair Utility, Save / Open Tasks. Obviously, the multi-processing feature is the big one! Many of you (Vantage customers) have been running Vantage on multi-core or multi-cpu machines and just dying for Vantage to grab hold of the CPUs and make them work. You should be happy with this new build.

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15 06, 2009

U.S Army End Ban on Social Media Sites

By | 2009-06-15T05:44:22+00:00 June 15th, 2009|Uncategorized, WebSpy, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

After blogging about an increase in Australian employers blocking social network access it is refreshing to see a more positive trend. Certain U.S. Army bases, that formerly blocked access to Web 2.0 sites, now permit users to surf to sites such as Facebook and Flickr. The Army has ordered its network managers to give soldiers [...]

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12 06, 2009

Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3 Now available

By | 2009-06-12T03:49:18+00:00 June 12th, 2009|Analyzer, Firewall Analysis, Live, Loaders, Log File Analysis, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway, Software Updates, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis, WebSpy|0 Comments

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.

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10 06, 2009

Invitation to Participate in Unique Web Usage Study

By | 2009-06-10T05:05:33+00:00 June 10th, 2009|Uncategorized, WebSpy, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

We are happy to announce that all existing WebSpy clients, and prospective clients, are presented with a unique opportunity to participate in a workplace internet leisure browsing (WILB) study carried out by Dr Brent Coker from the University of Melbourne. Dr Brent Coker is seeking organizations who would be interested in participating in a study to examine how WILB affects their employees’ productivity. Initial evidence from suggests WILB in certain circumstances can result in improved productivity.

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4 06, 2009

The Cost of Blocking Employee Internet Usage

By | 2009-06-04T08:07:58+00:00 June 4th, 2009|Uncategorized, WebSpy|2 Comments

Figures from Australia’s major communications company, Telstra, shows there has been a three-fold increase in Australian employers blocking social network sites in the space of 10 months. During the same period the total number of URLs normally allowed at work has decreased by 58%. Do these figures mean that employers are cutting back workplace Internet [...]

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18 05, 2009

Microsoft to announce Beta 3 for Threat Management Gateway (the new ISA Server)

By | 2009-05-18T15:51:32+00:00 May 18th, 2009|Analyzer, Firewall Analysis, Live, Loaders, Log File Analysis, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway, Software Updates, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis, WebSpy|0 Comments

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.

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14 05, 2009

Migrating WebSpy Vantage to a different machine

By | 2009-05-14T15:39:45+00:00 May 14th, 2009|How To, Scheduled Tasks, Uncategorized, Vantage, WebSpy|0 Comments

Imagine you've just spent the last six months setting up storages, aliases, profiles, scheduled tasks and so on, and you need to migrate all this to another machine. Of course you could go to the Aliases screen and click 'Save Aliases', then go to the new machine and click 'Open Aliases', and repeat for every setting you want to move across. But there is an easier way.

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17 04, 2009

Updates to Vantage, Analyzer & Live

By | 2009-04-17T05:55:58+00:00 April 17th, 2009|Analyzer, Live, Loaders, Software Updates, Uncategorized, Vantage, WebSpy|0 Comments

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).

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