I’ve been using Robocopy for a some time now to synchronize information between folders, servers, sites, etc and recently had a client requirement to update a schedule on one job in particular and log error events to the Windows Event Viewer. Due to other requirements on these servers I could not use PowerShell to write [...]

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I know its been forever since I’ve written anything, but that’s life in the fast lane I guess. But I recently ran into something that I wanted to share. I’ve been working with a client trying to get some issues resolved with one of their applications and at one point they asked me to gather [...]

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Have you been using Microsoft Office 2007? Have you had  a hard time trying to find all those options you knew in Office 2003? Do you wish you had access to some sort of interactive help program to show you where the most popular Microsoft Office related tasks are in the new Ribbon? Well [...]

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Now I know internal sales videos at corporations are supposed to be cheesy, but damn. This seriously has to be the worst ideas for a sales video I’ve seen since Benito Mussolini parodied Groucho Marx in an attempt to gain support for the Lateran Treaty. This is so incredibly brainless I now feel dumber for [...]

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San Francisco – A team including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Princeton University, and other researchers have found a major security flaw in several popular disk encryption technologies that leaves encrypted data vulnerable to attack and exposure.
“People trust encryption to protect sensitive data when their computer is out of their immediate control,” said EFF Staff [...]

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So you want to share files, but you don’t just want to let “Everyone” have full control. Understanding permissions can be difficult if you don’t pay attention. Let’s start by breaking down both the shared folder and NTFS File/Folder Permissions available to us. With the shared permissions you can choose form only three permissions, Read, [...]

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Domain names, hostnames, IP addresses, name server resolution, internal and external namespaces; it can all be a little overwhelming when you’re tasked with the job of implementing a DNS Infrastructure and you’re still not quite certain how it all works. This will be considered “Part One” of my DNS related articles as I realized while [...]

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