2016 has been a year full of breaches and a year full of passwords I’ve had to change. One resolution I’ve made in 2017 is to get away from using any multi-account passwords combinations, which means I’ve got to go…
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.
Here’s a quick fix when RIS tells you “the computer does not have enough disk space on the selected partition.
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.