I’ve had a few people ask me what’s NIS do in FEP. Well basically it monitors network traffic looking for known network exploit signatures. When one is found FEP logs it the Event Viewer and disregards the traffic. This way the network exploit can’t be ran on the workstation or server. See network exploits don’t…
Of the things that irks me when I have to rebuild my machine is having reconfigure Windows Live Writer for my blogs. Another huge pain is configuring Thunderbird for all of my non-work email accounts. I have a lot of folders and message rules setup for the various forums and email distribution lists I participate…
I can’t stress how important this tool is when designing an Exchange infrastructure. Don’t even think about buying hardware and storage without using it. The Exchange Team has released an update to the calculator. You can get it here: Exchange Mailbox Calculator Guide and Download The Change Log can be found HERE. Thanks to the…
A couple of days ago, I wrote that people often dismiss the need for Quality Assurance by saying, "These are good developers. We don’t need to test their code." Of course, I know from experience that the best developers have errors in their code. I also know that it seems easier for me to see…
I often have to convince people that professional Quality Assurance is a legitimate cost of a project. Most managers who I encounter say that they understand that Quality Assurance is important, but they look for ways to lower or eliminate the cost. Some common suggestions that I’ve heard are: These are good developers. We don’t…
Client hotfixes in ConfigMgr has become an often discussed topic as of late mainly because of the pre-R3 hotfix (977384) required on all managed systems. Microsoft recently published a good KB on this titled System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Hotfix Installation Guidance. Near the bottom of this KB they added this small query to help…
Inspired by a recent forum thread (and John Marcum), I put together a little test to verify if ConfigMgr does indeed automatically retry advertised programs that failed. I created a simple one line batch file and advertised it on my test client: exit 999 This one line simply exits the batch file and returns…
So you want to deploy FEP to a collection? Good. Let’s get started. Select the collection you want to deploy FEP to, right click on it, choose Distribute, then Software. Next. You’ll want to select the existing package Microsoft Corporation FEP – Deployment 1.0 . This package was created when FEP was installed. FEP…
Read the original post here. The Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Transfer Site Settings Wizard now has two new options: Power Management Agent and Enable Active Directory Delta Discovery and Delta Discovery Interval. Our very own Chaohao Xu dissects each of them here.
I’ve been working on a side project in rails that uses AJAX for all posts to the server with JQuery BBQ as state management (using the hashchanged event to provide bookmarkable views) and ran into a problem that can happen to anyone using JQuery. When AJAX calls are placed, they often retrieve HTML that contains…
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