Stories about: Access Server

The world of network access control is being drawn, irresistibly, into Microsoft's orbit now that the Redmond giant's full repertoire of Network Access Protection client, server and policy components are out there in the real world.

Internet Service Providers (ISPs), IT managers and the Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) have slammed the federal government's national content filtering scheme and dubbed it a technically impossible token gesture.

Adobe Systems announced on Thursday plans to release source code for its high-performance remoting and messaging technology via an open source product called BlazeDS.

We've been watching the romance develop between OCS (Office Communications Server 2007) and Exchange Server 2007 since OCS became available in beta earlier this year. When OCS finally came of age last month, we brought the mature couple together for a Hawaiian wedding.

Cisco's dominance in enterprise networking doesn't necessarily mean it is the only game in town -- or that you jeopardize job security by bypassing Cisco.

Windows Vista isn't the only recently released Microsoft software that will give users headaches when they upgrade their systems. Corporate users, partners and analysts said upgrading to Exchange Server 2007 from previous versions also may be a lengthy and painful process for companies, which may want to take a wait-and-see approach to the new software.

Creating a centralized SAN network for its 26 sites scattered across the country from Uluru to the Kimberley, the Great Barrier Reef and Tasmania, was no small feat for eco-tourism operator Voyages Hotels and Resorts.

Microsoft is working on a remote access tunneling protocol for Vista and Longhorn Server that lets client devices securely access networks via a VPN from anywhere on the Internet without concern for typical port blocking issues.

Exchange 2007 server's bells and whistles mean nothing without client accessibility. In our testing from the client side, we found that while it's easy to connect to the Exchange 2007 back end in most cases, it's not completely without its problems.

Networking equipment vendor Cisco Systems issued an advisory to customers Wednesday about two serious vulnerabilities in its Cisco Clean Access software, a network access control product.

Cisco has a number of significant extensions to its venerable 7600 Ethernet edge router, which were previewed in December at ITU. Among the more important was Broadband Remote Access Server (B-RAS), making the six-year-old workhorse Cisco's strategic -- for now -- aggregation platform for video. Cisco Senior Vice President Mike Volpi shared his thoughts on the ripened router, its ever increasing roles and its competition with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy.