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Useful website I discovered

by Peter Johnson 28 July 2010 News

As an I.T Professional I’m often asked to assist family members and friends with PC issues. Of course the skill level often differs and it is sometimes difficult to get accurate answers to questions such as OS, Browser version etc.   Point the person you are trying to help at www.supportdetails.com and they will see [...]

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Apple iOS 4 and Exchange Activesync issues

by Peter Johnson 2 July 2010 Documentation

For those of you are not aware there have been some murmurs of discontent around an issue with iPhones and iPads using iOS 4 and Activesync.   People are complaining of server performance impact and large log file bloat.   There is a blog entry by the Exchange team addressing the issue and discussing resolution [...]

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ADMT 3.2 released

by Peter Johnson 21 June 2010 Active Directory

Active Directory Migration Tool 3.2 has been released: Here’s the link on the Microsoft Site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20c0db45-db16-4d10-99f2-539b7277ccdb   New features:   1.) Now runs on Server 2008 R2 2.) Requires SQL Server 2005 Express SP3, SQL Server 2008 Express SP1 or SQL 2005 or      later installed before installation. 3.) Managed Service account migration   Deprecated features [...]

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Tagged as: Active Directory, download, Exchange, Microsoft, Server 2003, SP3, SQL

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Useful website and an amazing tool

by Peter Johnson 1 June 2010 News

In my travels in Cyberspace one of the more useful websites I’ve come across is the Gibson Research Corporation at www.grc.com .   The site is  run by Steve Gibson and is a trove of useful free tools and utilities.   The one piece of software that Steve charges for is well worth having . [...]

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Tagged as: Free, Security

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Interesting new product from Seagate

by Peter Johnson 24 May 2010 Desktop

This just appeared in my Inbox and appears to be quite compelling:  It’s a new HDD from Seagate that combines an SSD with a traditional spinning HDD platter.  The drive combines the speed of SSD with the lower cost of traditional drives by monitoring usage and automatically moving the most used data to the SSD. [...]

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Useful browser security check link

by Peter Johnson 24 May 2010 Desktop

In my day to day operations and learning process I came across the following useful link from the team at Mozilla i.e. the Firefox people:   http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/   This link checks on all of the browser plugins installed on you machine and informs you whether or not they are up to date.   It works [...]

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Tagged as: Security, UM

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New Security Advisory from Microsoft

by Peter Johnson 19 May 2010 Anouncements

Hi to the IT PRO Africa Audience. Microsoft have released a new security advisory (2028859) which is references a vulnerability in the Canonical Display Driver. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution. It affects Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Here’s the link to the advisory on the Microsoft site: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2028859.mspx Here’s a blog entry [...]

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Useful Powershell and WMI Tip

by Peter Johnson 18 May 2010 Documentation

During my day to day operations, currently doing a documentation exercise, I came across the following rather useful tip to recover the UUID of a server from within Windows using Powershell either locally or on a remote server. The UUID is a 32 bit number for the server that is guaranteed to be unique across [...]

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E-mail verification tool

by Peter Johnson 14 May 2010 Documentation

I came across a rather useful testing facility earlier today. This is how it works:   Send an e-mail from your mailbox to the following address: check-auth@verifier.port25.com   With a couple of minutes you will get a response from the system reporting on several things that could effect your e-mail delivery.   Thanks go to [...]

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Office 2010 Information Worker Demo VM download

by Peter Johnson 10 May 2010 Anouncements

I came across this really useful download this morning. It’s a two machine Virtual Machine download of all of the major components of the Office 2010 Information worker infrastructure. Includes SPS 2010, FAST search,OCS,Exchange 2010, Project Server etc. I can imagine that this would be really useful for demoing and testing these solutions.  It’s nearly [...]

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