After a “friendly discussion” with a development group, I pointed out the minor problem of SharePoint’s Central Administration site running in HTTP and all those usernames and passwords traveling in clear text across the wire. A quick demo with Wireshark got the message across, but they looked blankly at me on how to lock down [...]
For those who like to keep their network links from hitting 100% utilization need to keep the following in mind: Forefront clients normal run in background mode for updates from a WSUS server, so it will use the BITS settings, which you hopefully have applied by a GPO to all your machines. Background Mode , [...]
Found a odd bug with DPM and Forefront. Forefront detects a virus and puts in to a manual clean mode. DPM stops synchronizing until the file is manually cleaned. Background Users folders are being redirected to a server; My Documents, Profiles etc. The user machines are only set to quick scans. The server does a [...]
One of the great opportunities of taking courses are meeting great people. During the six day madness of the Canberra SANS conference, I met a host of top folk. One of those people, Ashley Deuble , who took the 401 track with me, is now mentoring the SAN 401 track in Brisbane. It starts on [...]
Well, very interesting night and despite the room being filled with any sysadmin’s natural enemy, the dreaded cowboy developers, it was great fun. I was the seventh one up (out of 11 presenters) and had spent most of my time listen to SQL or coding based talks. I actually leaning a number of things and [...]
