Being but a humble Windows Admin, certain requirements of the course overview appear to have a heavy dependency on Linux and programming, so I decided to brush up on those latent skills. Okay, latent skills may be a huge over exaggeration, but, in the wacky world of IT operations having to understand new, totally unrelated [...]
Our Exchange Guru, Ben, was responding to a call about missing emails. After a bit of searching through logs he noticed consistant time out errors on the mail relay from MessageLabs. The MessageLabs logs were also showing constant retries to the mail relay. Time to blame the Firewall …. Now, I knew that Cisco PIX ‘fixup [...]
Like buses, scamming emails turn up in threes. Had a couple of concerned people asking about emails they’d received. These emails were similar to this somewhat edited version: ________________________________________ Dear Someone Important, We are a professional internet consultant organization in Asia, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company. On Date [...]
