Another week, another roadshow. This time Symantec will be enthralling us with the latest on their EndPoint Protection and the rest of the yellow box range. This is a regular chance for us to find out what the plans are for the next few years and what technologies whe need to be reading up on.
It’s not very often that it happens, but when Microsoft stops everything to work on a security issue then we should all take notice. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-078.mspx So what do we do? Well within an hour of the release we started to deploy it for testing internally and after some testing we continued to deploy the patch…
Every day we are seeing machines with more and more insidious spyware and some items are rootkits. We are getting machines handed into our Edinburgh workshop all the time in various states of infection. A rootkit is a program designed to silently take control of a machine and then do whatever the installer wants on…
With SBS Essentials there are some specific rules: Thou shalt have no more than ONE SBS Server Thou shalt follow ALL the Wizards Thou shalt have no more than 25 users Thou shalt have no more than 25 concurrent connections. Now this is all fine until you hit an error implying that you have run out…
With our office still closed and remaining so for a few more weeks we thought it would be worth reminding people of the free tools that have been making our life easier when travel is blocked. Quick Assist Need to help your Dad sort his email password? Quick Assist is built into Windows 10 and…
With Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Microsoft and simplified the ability to run a single application on a terminal server. This was previously available though locking down with group policies, but it is now very much a push direct to the end user. Once again Microsoft have shifted the way network administrators will use their…
January is looking very busy. We have our new office and showroom opening (once the painters re-appear) and then its a chance to put all the holiday planning into action. Is this going to be the year of the Home Server and the year that Vista goes mainstream? Probably. Once the back-to-work problems have all…