September 8, 2009
Installing BackTrack 4 on to an old laptop is easy. Boot from the CD, then run the install.sh script on the Backtrack desktop. Now as a Windows Admin, I have to updated everything. I have no choice, otherwise my MCSE status is revoked. Once you have logged in to the laptop, plugged it in to [...]
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July 19, 2009
Was doing a bit of house keeping in a lab and had to re-point the Forefront MOM agents for a whole pile of machines. I remembered that FCS Nerds’ Craig Wiands had done a great post on it, so it dug it out and kicked of a simple batch script. Boom – redirected all the [...]
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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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October 19, 2008
Huge surprise that I’d be using Microsoft products to talk about other Microsoft products. Or maybe not. Mucking around with the Word 2007 Blog post template, out of that Sunday evening curiosity phase and not wanting to iron shirts or think about the working week. Anyway, Fyodor, of Nmap fame has a book out on [...]
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October 7, 2008
I took the GSEC course in July with around 70 other folks in Canberra. I’ve taken a number of other SANS courses already, but wanted to see what I’d missed. In hind sight it would have been great to have taken the GSEC (401 track) course as my starting point to my SANS training, but [...]
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