Tag Archives: Windows 2003
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…
Top 5: Most overlooked configuration items
No matter how prepared and how well documented the network is, sometimes techs forget some basic configurations sometimes. It’s never intentional, but sometimes there are small configurations that we just need to double check. Below is a list of some things that I’ve seen (and have) forgotten to double check when doing a project. Subnets…
Microsoft Security Updates: June 8th 2010
Security Updates Update: MS10-032/KB979559 Type: Important Affected Systems: 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7, 2008, 2008 R2 What it does: A trio of bugs in the Windows kernel can allow the use of malformed fonts to allow escalation of privileges attacks. It would be a bit hard to sneak a font onto the system without some…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: May 11th 2010
On Tuesday May 11th Microsoft released another round of updates for the Windows Operating System. Here’s what they are and what they do: SECURITY UPDATES: Update: MS10-030/KB978542 Type: Critical Affected Systems: XP, 7, 2003, 3008, 2008 R2, Outlook Express 5.5 and 6.0 for 2000 What it does: Outlook Express, Windows Mail, and Windows Live Mail…