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Shawn Anderson Remotely Install Office 2010 - Part 1 - Office Customization Tool

Prior to remotely installing Office 2010 to your company, you'll want to run the admin tool, also known as the Office Customization Tool.

We have a video which demonstrates using the Office Customization Wizard. We'll also sh

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Added by Shawn Anderson on September 2, 2010 at 4:57am — No Comments

Adam Ruth PowerShell Tips for System Administrators: Profiles

A profile in PowerShell is nothing more than a script file that is run when the shell starts. This file is very handy to create variables, functions, or change settings that you find you use a lot. Instead of having to re-import a library of functions or change the shell's settings each time you start up PowerShell.

The variable $profile holds the name of the file that you are using for the current shell. PowerShell doesn't create this file, so it won't exist out of the box, but the va

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Added by Adam Ruth on August 14, 2010 at 5:04pm — No Comments

Adam Ruth Top 10 Rejected Internet Protocols

The Internet is full of successful protocols such as HTTP, FTP, DNS, SNMP, IMAP and myriad others. Let us not forgot those protocols that never quite reached stardom, or died right out of the gate. Here are the top 10 protocols that, for one reason or another, never made it mainstream.

10. HTTPf

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol fecure
Similar to HTTPS but everything is encrypted by converting to old English.

9. FCP

File Corruption Protocol
Never really fo

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Added by Adam Ruth on July 28, 2010 at 3:28am — 3 Comments

Adam Ruth When Good Security Administration Goes Bad

In a recent post entitled Security Administration - Tradeoffs I discussed the dangers of making things worse in an attempt to make them better. All changes have a downside, however small, and if you can't see a downside it means you haven't analyzed the change sufficiently.


This was brought into stark contract when I read this po

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Added by Adam Ruth on July 12, 2010 at 12:57am — No Comments

Adam Ruth Top 10 Uses for that Consolidated Server

Okay, now you've got some servers consolidated using virtualization (you are consolidating servers, right?) But what do you do with the old boxes? Sure, you could donate them to a charity or recycle them in an eco-friendly way. But where's the fun in that? Here are some other ideas.

  1. Cubicle space heater.
  2. Fill with sand for large zen garden.
  3. Add realistic wind noise to flight simulator game.
  4. Glue front panels on f
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Added by Adam Ruth on June 23, 2010 at 9:59pm — 2 Comments

Dan Taylor Address Denied Issue & Solution

Whilst working on our Navision Upgrade today I came across an error indicating that we couldn't start the Web Services on our server due to a permissions error (HTTP could not register URL).

A short GoogleFu later and I discovered it was caused by the new method of elevating an account to administrator status, it doesn't happen when you run a service.

In order to get the web service running on our Server 2008 machine I followed the instructions
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Added by Dan Taylor on June 21, 2010 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Adam Ruth Finding Your System Administration Balance

I was on a long haul international flight a few days ago, trying to endure 14 hours in a metal tube. As my troubleshooting mind usually does, it was thinking of ways to make the flight more comfortable and efficient. I had all kinds of wonderfully impractical ideas about ways to speed up baggage collection and deal with the poor sucker in the window seat needing to use the lavatory with two sleeping people blocking the path (one reason I always get an aisle seat.) As I was thinking of my bril

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Added by Adam Ruth on June 15, 2010 at 11:26pm — No Comments

Shane Corellian Your Systems Management Lysine Contingency (or Abort! Abort! Abort!)

In the course of our duties as Sys Admins I'm sure we've all "pushed the wrong button" a few times. If you haven't yet, you probably haven't been a Sys Admin very long.

About 10 years ago while working on a project which was wrought with political and technical paranoia I decided to prepare my own "Lysine Contingency" in the event that the polit

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Added by Shane Corellian on June 11, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Adam Ruth 9 System Administrator Curses

We all get frustrated from time to time (yes, even system administrators.) One very common way that we let off a little steam is with a few well-chosen words. It's one thing to let loose with a string of invective that would make a sailor blush out of sheer laughter when you're alone, but it's just not good form to do it while sitting at a user's desk with them watching over your shoulder. That is, unless you want to go to that $&#@% HR sensitivity training again.

We're all familia

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Added by Adam Ruth on June 9, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Dan Taylor Virtualisation - Where we are

This is the second part of my look in to virtualisation, its taken a while to get here as life got in the way.

Looking through System Center Virtual Machine Manager right now I can see we currently have 16 Hyper-V powered virtual servers in production, with a hand ful of other VM's going through testing to reach production. Looking back it has taken us some hard work to get where we are currently and in getting here we've learned serveral important lessons regarding Virtuali
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Added by Dan Taylor on June 9, 2010 at 11:09am — No Comments

Wesley "Nonapeptide" Avoiding SysAdmin Obsolescence; The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Telepathic Robot Drones

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Added by Wesley "Nonapeptide" on May 25, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Shane Corellian What's in your armpit? Designer perfume for System Administrators


Photo by quacktaculous

After a

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Added by Shane Corellian on May 21, 2010 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Adam Ruth Registry Types for Windows Administrators

(reprinted from the Admin Arsenal blog)

The Registry is one of the most maligned parts of Windows, but it's something that is going to be with us for a long time and every system administrator will have to work with eventually. Not everyone is familiar with all of the types of data that it can contain, so here's a quick summary of those types. I will o
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Added by Adam Ruth on May 18, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Dan Taylor Building our virtual environment

At work I’m trying to get my head around our virtualisation, like many companies we have sort of just sprawled as the days went on building new VM’s for almost any request just so we didn’t have to buy any more ‘expensive’ hardware. I have been working with Virtualisation software for the past 4 and a half years, almost from the day I started my current job.


During this period I have worked wit

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Added by Dan Taylor on May 7, 2010 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Tsahy Shapsa Are you SICK of trying to figure out “Whose Data Is It Anyway?”

The other day I met with Anthony Nogueira, President & CEO of SafeSideCompliance . I was introduced to Anthony via one of our customers and in our meeting we discussed what he does to help his customers protect their business sensitive data stored on their file servers.

Anthony has many years of experience with technology solutions and is now working with large customers around securing their environments. Since launching SafeSideCompl

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Added by Tsahy Shapsa on April 15, 2010 at 10:34pm — 6 Comments

Christian Dinh Problems-Issues Installaing E2K7 Mailbox Role

Many websites/blogs/forums provided steps to upgrade from E2K/E2K3 to E2k7/E2k10, but not all of them provided the workarounds or possible problems emerged during upgrade. Credit goes to Henrik Walter (from msexchange.org) for providing detailed tutorials for transitioning Exchange 2k/2k3… Continue

Added by Christian Dinh on April 15, 2010 at 6:13pm — No Comments

Donald Terry Information Technology in a Recession, From Here on Out....

We all Know as I.T. Professional's that we don't make money for the companies that we work for, so if companies could help it, we would be the first to go in this recession with jobs being at an all time low. Think about it, if your company has 5 Helpdesk Professional, 3 Network adminstrators, 2 Network Engineers, 1 I.T. Director, and 1 Cheif Technology officer, Thats about 3.5 million in Salaries for I.T., wow! Now the really costly part of I.T which is the Equipment to make things w

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Added by Donald Terry on April 14, 2010 at 3:29pm — 6 Comments

Everson Vargas da Luz 100 Ótimos cursos gratuitos de Tecnologia

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Added by Everson Vargas da Luz on February 22, 2010 at 11:47am — No Comments

Robert Chipperfield Renewing an expired certificate in Exchange 2007

Continuing on a theme of how to fix those niggly little problems in Exchange Server, today it's the turn of this error when starting Outlook:

The cause? An SSL certificate that expired some time last year - the default Exchange self-signed certificate seem

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Added by Robert Chipperfield on February 15, 2010 at 5:15pm — No Comments

Robert Chipperfield Recovering Exchange Server 2007 Outlook Web Access

With dozens of virtual servers on tens of virtual test networks here in the Exchange division, all getting hammered quite a bit with Naughty Things that Probably Shouldn't Be Done, we tend to break things quite regularly.

One of the more common failures is Outlook Web Access under Exchange Server 2007. One way or another, it just stops working - sometimes in a minor way, sometimes more extensively. This morning, it simply presented me with a blank page after login.

Part of a ne… Continue

Added by Robert Chipperfield on February 12, 2010 at 1:39pm — No Comments

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