Category Archives: Network Administration
Outlook 2010 Beta Bug Fix
If like me, you downloaded the 2010 Office Beta, you may be interested to know there is already a path out for the Outlook 2010 portion. Now Microsoft releasing Patches is nothing new, and I think it’s funny to release a patch for the product prior to it coming out, but that’s exactly what the…
Windows Printer Pooling
You may run into a situation where you need to pool a bunch of printers together and have the jobs printed to them spread out amongst different printers. One example is if you company prints a bunch of reports on a regular basis. Printing to just one printer (depending on the size of your…
Virtualized Domain Controllers
I got a call yesterday from my old job, it was the software specialist who was having problems with the VMWare 3.51 server which I installed a couple of months before I left. Though by the time I was able to get a break and call them back, but it got me thinking about my…
Q&A Monday: Server Disk Defrag
Question: I was recently promoted to a Junior System Admin role at my company, and server maintenance has recently come under my job responsibility. I was wondering if it is a good idea to defragment the disk on the servers? We occasionally do defrags on the local PCs, but does defraging a server really help?…
Remove the .NET Framework Assistant for Firefox
Like me you may have abandoned the Internet Explorer browser for the more secure Firefox. Well if you recently updated your computer, Microsoft may have snuck a vulnerability into Firefox without even telling you. If you take a look at the installed add-ons in Firefox you might notice an add-on called Microsoft .net Framework Assistant….
Slow time of the Year?
In most of the jobs that I have had, this time of the year (November to January) can be the slow months of the year. With most parts of the year sometime we can end up shelving projects or running checks, but this time of year we can easily get complacent with just relaxing and…