Archive for February 2009

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Kicking off the MCITP:Enterprise Study

February 16, 2009

(or MCSE 2008 as the rest of us call it) For reasons only known to myself, I’ve stupidly decided to kick off the final two MCITP: Enterprise exams starting with 70-649. Ah, nothing like making bets, attempting to get a bit of competition going, that you can get certified before the rest of the team. [...]

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Daemon by Daniel Suarez

February 15, 2009

Hiding from the rain this weekend, I was perusing through my local book shop new releases section, when I came accross a book called Daemon by Daniel Suarez. From the book’s cover artwork it was obviously technology based rather than supernatural, so Ipicked it up and had a quick glance at it. The back cover aluded to bots [...]

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Stopping users uninstalling Forefront

February 14, 2009

Had a problem user, who decided AV wasn’t needed and promptly removed it from his system. I got the call, called up the customer and politely pointed out the Internet was full of Bad Stuff™ and it’s a good idea NOT to uninstall, especially as it broke IT policy doing so. The conversation went a [...]

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Securing OCS with ISA Server

February 14, 2009

The folks over at the Technet magazine have publish this little gem on OCS and ISA depolyment Worth a read if you have OCS and need the outside world to connect up to it http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd440949.aspx

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node verification failed – SecurID fails after re-building a Cisco ASA

February 13, 2009

Ran in to this little problem after rebuilding a Cisco ASA. Got everything working except for RSA authentication. DNS forward and reverse entries were in place (if you don’t have a PTR record, the ACE server would not automatically resolve the FQDN) and the agent on the RSA windows ACE server was set up and [...]