If the guys a Red Tiger Security wanted to kick my brain into black hat mode – they succeeded!  I’ve just gotten back from a 5-day ‘boot camp’ style SCADA security class hosted by SANS in Houston, TX. Continue reading →

Here’s a quick fix when RIS tells you “the computer does not have enough disk space on the selected partition. Continue reading →

I’ve got a couple of remote users who report not having any new email since sometime in 2005. These guys don’t sign on to the computers all that often, so I suspect Outlook didn’t automagically change their mailbox settings when I moved them to our new Exchange server back in 2005. Typically, I would do a remote assistance session with the users while logged in. However, these guys aren’t in the office very much and when they are I’m never at my desk. So I decided to try a new trick – and hopefully it works. Continue reading →

While I love OWA, I despise the IISADMPWD utilities used for password management in IIS and OWA. While we’ve had problems with some of our mail-only users changing their password in OWA for months, it hasn’t been a priority to get it fixed. Continue reading →

Symptom: Computer “locked up”, SPOOLSV.EXE using 100% CPU. Continue reading →

I’ve been building serveral small test servers and workstations, but I ran into a Windows Update error 80072EE2 putting a test server on my production network. Continue reading →

Ever have one of those days?  Among all the random things the corporate beast threw at me, I encountered a wonderful WMI error generated by a GPO refresh. Continue reading →