Office Outlook
Since migrating my work mailbox from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange my Junk E-mail folder within Microsoft Outlook was renamed Junk E-mail1. If I tried to rename the folder from within Outlook the option was greyed out so there seemed no simple way to do this, it annoyed me to be honest!
Well today [...]
RSA SecurID 800 token
I have recently worked on a Data Center migration that involved changing the whole IP address range for the site, this process went quite smoothly really. One thing that caught me out was when the primary IP address of the RSA Authentication Manager server was changed all of the other servers [...]
I noticed the other day on my work Windows XP workstation that the My Documents, My Pictures and My Music icons were not the customised ones but instead the basic yellow folder icons.
To resolve this issue, use the following method:
Click Start, click Run, and then type:
rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit
Click OK.
Note: The command line parameter is case-sensitive, and [...]
McAfee SiteAdvisor
I thought I would share with you a little bit of website browsing protection that is completly free, it is called McAfee SiteAdvisor. It is worth a look as it provides additional confidence when browsing unknown sites.
I have created a pair of scripts that log when a user logs on and off to workstaions on a domain.
A basic overview of how the system works is as follows:
A share located on an Active Directory server
A logon script
A logoff script
Group Policy to launch the scripts
Setting up the system:
Create a directory called AUDIT on [...]
I have recently implemented a RSA SecurID infrastructure to provide secure two-factor authentication over both local login to servers and workstations and also EAP VPN authentication. This was initially using SID700 tokens and worked brilliantly. Since then we have purchased a number of SID800 tokens which have USB connectors built-in to automatically passthrough the code [...]
The next issue I have encountered is Windows XP’s requirement for an IDE floppy disk drive during the text mode install stage. As the laptop has a SATA controller Windows XP does not have the driver support built in, normally you would just download the drivers and during the text mode install press F6 to [...]
Well my new work laptop has arrived but being able to use it with our standard corporate build does not appear so straightforward. Firstly the workstation management software we use, Novell Zenworks, does not support the hardware ‘out-of-the-box’ so after a short while I found the following solution:
Download the latest Zenworks for Desktops 7.1 Hot [...]
There is a known issue that if you use a non-BMP wallpaper, for example a .jpg (jpeg), in a roaming profile using Microsoft Windows, it will not roam with the user. To resolve this I created a script that when used as a logoff script, it will enable the wallpaper to roam.
MoveJPGWallpaper.vbs
Further to this I would [...]