29 06, 2012

Microsoft TMG SQL to Text Script

By | 2012-06-29T14:44:59+00:00 June 29th, 2012|How To, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway, Third Party, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Microsoft Forefront TMG logs activity to it’s internal SQL Express database. In addition to theextra steps you need to perform to access this database from a remote server, importing data into Vantage is much slower than importing from W3C Text logs. You can easily change the logging from SQL Express to W3C text logs in TMG’s [...]

29 06, 2012

Microsoft TMG SQL to Text Script

By | 2012-06-29T14:44:38+00:00 June 29th, 2012|How To, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway, Third Party, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis|0 Comments

Microsoft Forefront TMG logs activity to it's internal SQL Express database. In addition to the extra steps you need to perform to access this database from a remote server, importing data into Vantage is much slower than importing from W3C Text logs. You can easily change the logging from SQL Express to W3C text logs [...]

10 12, 2010

Reporting on Astaro Security Gateway

By | 2010-12-10T15:23:54+00:00 December 10th, 2010|Astaro, Firewall Analysis, How To, Log File Analysis, Reports, Third Party, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, WebSpy|0 Comments

Astaro Security Gateway devices are capable of producing some very detailed log files including full URLs, usernames, categories, block action and reason which gives you some great reporting options in WebSpy Vantage. Take a look at our dedicated Astaro pages to get an idea of what can be achieved when analyzing Astaro Web Gateway log [...]

12 10, 2010

Vantage Update 2.2.0.55 (Clearswift, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard and more)

By | 2010-10-12T07:25:56+00:00 October 12th, 2010|cisco, ClearSwift, Firewall Analysis, FlowMonitor, IronPort, Loaders, Log File Analysis, Microsoft ISA Server, Partners, Software Updates, Third Party, Uncategorized, Vantage, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

We’ve just released an auto update for the Vantage software range. This release includes some new log format additions, and some fixes to existing formats. […]

14 10, 2009

Microsoft Forefront TMG Release Candidate now available

By | 2009-10-14T01:00:34+00:00 October 14th, 2009|Firewall Analysis, Loaders, Log File Analysis, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway, Third Party, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis, WebSpy, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

Microsoft have announced the availability of Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Release Candidate (RC). This is the final public release of TMG before it is made available to purchase. If you're considering upgrading your ISA Server to TMG, this means that you can start your deployment using the Release Candidate, and simply switch it to a licenced version with no additional configuration changes once the full release is available.

20 07, 2009

Convert Microsoft ISA 2006 MSDE logs to WebSpy compatible text logs

By | 2009-07-20T04:23:25+00:00 July 20th, 2009|Analyzer, Firewall Analysis, How To, Loaders, Log File Analysis, Microsoft ISA Server, Third Party, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis, WebSpy|2 Comments

A few customers have experienced some issues converting their ISA MSDE logs to text format using Microsofts MSDEToText.vbs script for ISA 2006. We've therefore created a modified version of the script that creates compatible log files for WebSpy software.

25 03, 2009

Disabling time synchronization between guest and host in Microsoft Virtual PC

By | 2009-03-25T07:29:02+00:00 March 25th, 2009|How To, Third Party, Uncategorized|5 Comments

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.