Adventures in stupid technology
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Deploy Adobe Flash Player using Active Directory GPO
In this article I’ll be covering how to deploy Adobe Flash Player using a Windows active directory environment. [requirements] Windows Server (2003/2008/2012) Active Directory at functional level 2003 or higher. Windows Professional (XP/VISTA/7/8/8.1) Basic understanding of Group Policy Objects (GPO) and group policy management. Basic understanding of Active Directory, Windows Server and Windows Professional. …
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OS X Mail App does not allow creation of some E-mail accounts
Granted, some of the domain suffixes out there seem like they’re kind of on the fringe of being legit (.xxx, .wtf, .tattoo), but Apple has apparently decided that in OS X 10.10.2 (Yosemite and others) you cannot add an exchange email account with an email address ending in some of those fringe suffixes. Either that,…
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Office365 planning – don’t change the region
According to Microsoft customer support, to change regions on a Office365 subscription, you must backup and then destroy the entire subscription and all account data, then recreate it in the region you want to move to. Sound crazy? I thought so. Let’s take this example: You’ve got a large international firm with several offices around…
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Reinstall Microsoft Office 2010 on a Dell
If you purchased a Dell with Microsoft Office pre-installed in the past few years, chances are all you got in the box was a Operating System recovery DVD and small paper card with the Microsoft Office product key on it. Should you find yourself in the situation where the systems hard drive has failed and…
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Calendar events added on phone don’t show in Outlook
With Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) options at an increasing number of workplaces, it’s become almost common practice to have your email, calendar and contacts on your personal device. It’s great for employers that want to get additional hours out of employees constantly tethered to their smart phones and it’s great for those employees who…
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Five steps to take for pretty good DL/DR protection
I see a lot of small businesses unprepared for data loss prevention and disaster recovery. Implementing a DLP/BDR plan can be a daunting task if you start searching for solutions via Google both in terms of scope and finances as well. This doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. I’m not saying that BDR and…
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Dllhost has gone haywire because of poweliks
Dllhost.exe spawning multiple instances may seem suspicious but it is not necessarily a virus. Dllhost.exe is a wrapper application that is part of Windows 7 and can be used to run DLL files as applications and running some DLL’s as threads can be legit windows system activity. Last week, however, I had a workstation exhibiting…