Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Azure virtual machine users: Be prepared, as there are less than three months before Microsoft fundamentally changes how VMs connect to the Internet, with default outbound access set to be retired.

Here’s how and why to remove default routes that lead to the internet and instead configure outbound proxies to better insure security. If portions of enterprise data-center networks have no need to ...

You can configure outbound filtering to provide an additional layer of security — at little extra cost. Many decried the Windows Vista firewall as broken when Microsoft released the operating system ...