I’ve tried SquareSpace a few times in the past but I finally had a chance to try it full blown. It’s very easy to work with and produces some very good results. They give you a 2 week trial run which was more than enough time to setup a (almost) fully finished website. You can [...]
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Moving Exchange installation from a SAN to local hard disks.
Here is an interesting scenario. Imagine if you will an Exchange 2007 SP1 server with 2 drives (D & E). D&E are actually located on a SAN. D holds the entire installation of Exchange, program files and mail stores. E just has the transaction log. Now imagine that you need to move the installation of [...]
WatchGuard Firebox Stripping Attachments Because of UUENCODE.
I’m not a WatchGuard Sys Admin by training. I have a CCNA but WatchGuard Firebox is a different animal in many respects. I recently ran into a problem where the Gateway AntiVirus, specifically the SMTP Proxy, was stripping email attachments from one of our vendors. The message the end user received was vague: The WatchGuard [...]
Remote Assistance via Command Line in Windows 7
I use to offer remote assistance using a shortcut in XP. That no longer works with Windows 7. Instead the easiest way I’ve found is to use the command line. To run Remote Assistance Windows 7 uses a program called MSRA.exe. MSRA.exe can be run from the command line. So the easiest way to offer [...]
Set a Trusted Site in Group Policy
I’m now in an environment where the end users don’t have access to any of the Tabs in Internet Options. So they can’t add their own Trusted Sites. Apparently this was never an problem until they needed to run software on a Bank’s Website. I needed a way to manage their Trusted Sites for them [...]
Locations of Folder Redirection Related Registry Keys.
I had never had this happen before, but we could not change the location of a redirected My Documents folder after setting up a client with a new server. I’m not sure we ever figured out the whys of it, any ideas? However we did figure out a work around. For users who existed before [...]
Version 3.1 drained my 3G iPhone’s battery?
Woke up this morning to a dead iPhone. I updated to v3.1 last night, listened to an audio book for about 30 mins and woke up to my iPhone having a dead battery this morning. I was able to get it to boot up by plugging it in and holding the sleep/wake and home button [...]
Moved to Florida
Well I moved to Florida this month. What a pain. I’ll never do that again (yeah right). Anyway I’m also unemployed now, which is great. So I don’t know that I’ll have much to blog about for a while but we’ll see. I’m spending most of my days job hunting. Need a Sys Admin in [...]
Disabling File and Printer Sharing for just Wireless Connections.
Sometimes things are so simple I wonder why I didn’t think of that. Here is another tidbit I learn from the Security Now podcast over on the Twit Network. I know that Vista asks you if you are connecting to a home, work or public wireless connection and adjusts its security settings accordingly. If you [...]
DHCPLOC Utility
I never new about this one but we had a reason so use it yesterday. Computers at one of the stores were being given false DNS entries by a false DHCP server. Since others may see this malware on their systems the DNS Servers it used were: 64.86.133.51 and 63.243.173.162 On one of the machines [...]