From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Find out where a DLL, EXE, or SYS file came from

April 15, 2008

There have been many times while working on a problem that I have found files that look suspicious, or are not part of the standard windows install. Microsoft has provided an excellent resource for researching executable files within windows.
It is called the DLL Help Database Search

So for example…you are working on your server, trying to [...]

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VMWare 2.0 Beta 2 Release

April 8, 2008

VMWare has announced the release of Beta 2 of their server product.
It is supposed to have improved performance, and include these new key features:
- Update VMWare Infrastructure (VI) Web Access management interface
- Independent virtual machine console
- Support for USB 2.0 devices
- Multi-Tiered permissions
- New Hardware editors
- Automatically start your virtual machines
This is the next [...]

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Restrict User Logon Hours

April 8, 2008

We have a support contract with one of our software vendors. From time to time they need to login via Remote Desktop and make changes or updates for us.
I setup a special account that will notify me when they login to our server – that way I always know when they are on our [...]

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Vista Service Pack 1 is coming your way

April 7, 2008

Service Pack 1 for Vista was released a few weeks ago. For now, it is an optional update. Beginning mid April, SP1 will start automatically downloading to PCs – Only on machines that have automatic updates turned on. Not to fear, it will download but not install automatically.
If you are not familiar with the new [...]

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