I stumbled across these videos by Seth Juarez the other day, which explain the detail around Isolated User Mode and security improvements in Windows 10. There is a lot of talk about privacy and ‘telemetry’ in relation to Windows 10, however there is a bigger picture. This should make an interesting watch for those interested …
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Today I had to resolve a problem with Outlook 2010 not starting. The user was greated with the message: “Cannot open your default e-mail folders. The information store could not be opened.” I found the Outlook.exe file was in XP compatibility mode. To check: 1. Open My Computer and navigate to c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office X\ …
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Recently I had to get the PFDAVAdmin Tool (which is used for managing permissions in Exchange 2003 settings) running on a new Windows 2012 R2 server. I ran into issues where I would see the error: Could not expand https://localhost/exadmin/admin/example.com/public%20folders/ : Name cannot begin with the ‘0’ Following some research, I found these articles on …
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RJ-PhotoDownloader is a basic batch photo download script. I wrote it for a specific task, where photos needed to be downloaded regularly and quickly from a camera memory card where this script was called from a longer semi-automated process. RJ-TimeLogger can run on any Windows system, but does require one additional application for the USB …
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From time to time, volume sizes have to be increased to allow for data growth and today is no exception. If your increasing the storage on a Windows 2008 SQL cluster, you may find the following information useful. After I increased the storage presented from the SAN to the host (using the SAN tools) and …
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RJ-TimeLogger is a basic batch file time recording application / script. I wrote it for a specific task, and thought I would share it. With no prerequisites RJ-TimeLogger can run on any Windows system, eg: it can be stored on a shared network drive and then run from any PC / server your logged into. …
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gMSA (Group Managed Service Accounts) come along with the introduction of Server 2012, these aim to increase the security of service accounts by removing static & known passwords. However, they do introduce their own complications. Legacy Service Accounts If your running a Microsoft infrastructure of any size, there is little doubt that you will have …
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UPDATE: Microsoft have since released Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 Service Pack 4, this should resolve issues with IE 11 clients. At the time of writing Internet Explorer 11 clients are not currently supported by Unified Access Gateway 2010 and Microsoft are yet to release an update for UAG server to do so. In the …
I went to the cash point the other day and look what I found….. Had to take a photo.
I was working away on my PC today and was getting bugged by the Windows Update restart reminder, having been bitten by its restart in the past I wanted it to leave me alone. I had stacks of SSH sessions open, web sites and files, it was not the time for a reboot and I didn’t …