Beefing up DNS with DNSSEC is a very hot topic in the Netherlands. Our goverment has decided that all goverment domains must be secured per default and the Netherlands itself has the highest implementationrate of DNSSEC domains in the world, which is no small feat as the Dutch .NL extension is one of the most […]
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Beefing up your security
In light with adding as many security layers as possible to various environments I am responsible for I have come acros several interesting (Knowledge Base) articles, one of the foremost is this link http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/10-crazy-it-security-tricks-actually-work-196864 which details 10 steps on improving security in large and small networks. Although I find honeypots and tarpits a bit overkill for […]
Windows folder reduction with Junction.exe for SSD users
When using smaller SSDs, such as 60 or 80 GBs or even 120 GBs, you may soon run into the problem that certain default windows folders are getting very big and overgrown. Two of these directories are easy to move to any other harddisk that may be in your system. If you head over to […]
Disable hybernation
To remove the hybernation from you PC and save a good chunk of 8GB on your main disk, especially usefull for people running SSDs use the following command: powercfg -h off Note; You need to run this in an elevated CMD prompt.
Exchange 2010 SP1 PST Export via Command Line (Powershell)
With the new features that came out in SP1 for Exchange 2010 there finally is access directly on the server to export mailboxes into PSTs from the Exchange Server itself without the need for Office or ExMerge. I wrote a simple batch-job that will run the entire export into a local (or network) directory. I […]
Address List and EAP filter upgrades with Exchange Server 2007 & 2010
This post is based very much on my experiance upgrading several environments from 2003 to 2010 (via 2007 & going directly) After having massive issues with out-dated and malfunctioning GAL I came across this post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2007/01/11/3397719.aspx It basically states a bunch of command that you will need to run in order for things to work […]
HTC Trophy 7 with WP7.5 (Mango)
Just took delivery yesterday of my repaired HTC Trophy 7 (It got killed by heavy rain during a festival, thankfully I have insurance). The new Mango update comes with a very good set of new features of which the most impressive is the Messaging Tile update. Which now allows you to use MSN, Facebook Chat […]
Webfarming on Windows Server 2003 & 2008
http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/loadbalancing/networkloadbalancingwindows2003.asp This guide is a very comprehensive walk-through on several key points on creating webserver farms, both in 2003 but this is also still relevant in 2008 (R2) A small pointer here is that also there is an old MS article which states you should make a binding of you cluster IP on your IIS […]
CRM4.0 failure to detect asp.NET 2.0 being installed
An extremely usefull link about this problem: http://crm.vdsnickt.eu/2010/05/ms-crm-4-0-setup-error-asp-net-is-not-installed/ Ran into the problem while trying to upgrade from CRM3.0 to 2011 which requires 3.0 to be upgraded to 4.0. The problem is caused by the CRM 4.0 installer being a bit retarded as the poster points out. Simply adding ASP.net 2.0 to the ASAPI filter list […]
Hyper-V Time drift on Virtual DC
When working with Virtual domaincontrollers on Hyper-V you are very likely to have come across the time drifting problem. I have found a very nice site which gives so good insight in the workings of Hyper-V Time Synchronisation and also why you should keep it enabled. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/11/19/time-synchronization-in-hyper-v.aspx Ofcourse it is always recommended that you keep […]