Tag Archives: Networking
National Cyber Security Awareness Month (10th Year)
October marks the 10th Annual Cyber Security Awareness Month. This month is set aside as an opportunity to engage both public and private sector companies and more importantly the general public to create a safe, secure, and resilient cyber environment.
Q&A Monday: Check MAC AD Authentication
Question: I work for a School District with a very small tech department. As we are in an educational environment, we are running a mixed environment with Mac’s and PC’s authenticating to a Windows 2003 AD servers, 9 total servers total spread out throughout 8 sites. I have been running into problems with a few Mac’s in…
Please don’t daisy chain switches
There are many times that I would walk into a business to help troubleshoot a problem, to find that someone didn’t take the proper time to do something right, and instead took the easy way. Usually this come in the form of switches (or even worse hubs) that are daisy chained together one after another…and…
Q&A Moday: Exchange 2007 E-Mail Forwards
Question: I am new to the Exchange 2007 environment, I’ve worked with Exchange 5.5, 2000, and 2003 and I’m running into a problem that I don’t know how to fix. I have a user who wants to forward all incoming e-mail from our email server to his personal GMail account. I loaded his Outlook profile…
Looking for a job
I have been absent from my regular posting due to the fact, that I myself have been found laid off and looking for a job. Because I haven’t been actively working with technology it’s been hard for me to sit down and write a blog. All of a sudden it came to me today, I…
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…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for Viruses
I know that this time of the year, the average home users computer is pretty vulnerable to virus, spyware and malware attacks. The reason I think this is, is because with most newer computers you get a year of Anti Virus protection, and well that year is coming to an end. Most people in this…