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…
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…
Symptom: Computer “locked up”, SPOOLSV.EXE using 100% CPU.
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.
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.
After a few failed starts getting Java to update via WSUS Package Publisher, I’ve taken one more try. Here are the steps I used to successfully deploy Java 6 update 115. The process should work for any Java version.
Tech support phone scams are a few years old, but still fairly common. If someone calls you claiming to be from Microsoft (or some other tech company) wanting to connect to your computer to fix something, hang up.
In case you haven’t heard, many Drupal hosting providers and users dropped the ball on getting their systems patched. Tripwire reports automated scans started compromising sites just hours after the most recent patch announcement. The lesson here: Pay attention to…
Microsoft releases an advisory and fix-it tool to disable SSL3 in Internet Explorer, recommends SSL 3 is disabled on all systems. It appears they are also disabling SSL3 on all their hosted internet services. I recommend we all do likewise.
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