Data professionals might have been expecting a launch date for SQL Server 2016 at the Data Driven event held today in New York City, but what they got was a recap of the flagship database system’s capabilities and a full-out assault on rival Oracle Corp. Exec Judson Althoff detailed a SQL Server 2016/Oracle comparison involving […]
Last Monday, a new particularly clever (and nasty) piece ransomware appeared on the internet called Locky. The malicious file went undetected by most anti-virus software for a number of days and even now a couple weeks since it appeared, antivirus products are still struggling to keep up, often taking upto 24 hours to include detection in their […]
Microsoft is ending the support for Internet Explorer 8,9, and 10 on January 12th. This news has come as a breath of fresh air as it was considered a bane for many web developers, thanks to the endless security holes in the software. On Tuesday, a new “End of Life” patch will go live that will […]
Myth #1: “The only interference problems are from other 802.11 networks.” Summary: The unlicensed band is an experiment by the FCC in unregulated spectrum sharing. The experiment has been a great success so far, but there are significant challenges posed by RF interference that need to be given proper attention. Myth #2: “My network […]
Windows Update for Business enables control over the deployment of updates within organizations while ensuring devices are kept current and security needs are met, at reduced management cost. Features include setting up device groups with staggered deployments and scaling deployments with network optimizations. Windows Store for Business provides a flexible way to find, acquire, manage […]
Now that Windows 10 Version 1511 (first major patch) is out, we can look at potential upgrade paths for the OS. For those of you that didn’t know, this version allows for the use of keys from Windows 7/8 during the installation of Windows 10.
From: http://blog.mwpreston.net/2015/11/09/veeam-v9-what-we-know-so-far/ Unlimited Scale-out Backup Repository This is perhaps one the biggest features included within v9 – all to often we see environments over provision the storage for their backup repositories – you never know when we might get a large delta or incremental and the last thing we want to have to do is go […]
Preventative Workstation protection: This virus launches from a specific location on the workstation, thus it’s recommended to add a group policy setting to block it from Windows Vista/7/8 and from XP. Use software restriction policies as follows: Windows 7: You can use Software Restriction Policies to block executables from running when they are located in […]
O365 Office 2013 Activation error code 0x8004FC12 This is something that has been annoying me for a while. It only happens on my home computer and will not go away. I’ve tried reinstalling setting up new profiles, un-associating my personal O365 account, repairing Office. I even gave up and started using Office 2010. The problem doesn’t occur […]
Recently I spent time revisiting our monitoring system. It needed a little bit of TLC and some of the staff wasn’t clear on exactly how it works and does its magic. As a follow-up, I thought it might be useful to write a little about monitoring. I mean, so what’s the point anyway? Monitoring has […]