More of these news about confidential data getting lost…
A local PC repair firm found the disc under the the laptop’s keyboard when the laptop was put in for repair.   The disc had the words “Home Office” and “Confidential” written on it.
The good news is, at least this time both the laptop and the disc have […]

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Update: Two more users reported the same problem and it looks like it’s actually the Adobe PDF add-in causing the problem! I noticed that all 3 users have this add-in. I didn’t uninstall it because they’re using it, but what I did to fix this problem was I installed and enabled one of […]

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We have one computer at work that I couldn’t send a Remote Assistance request to and whenever I try to query it using WMI and PowerShell I get the following error message:
Get-WmiObject : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
The problem turned out to be DCOM. For some reason it got disabled.
To change […]

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It’s finally official, Sony’s Blu-ray wins the HD format war.
From MSNBC: Toshiba announced today that it will no longer make HD DVD players and recorders. Toshiba’s president, Atsutoshi Nishida, said that Warner Bros. Entertainment’s decision last month to release videos in Blu-ray format only had a tremendous impact and they simply had no chance to […]

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I had to do this just a few minutes ago and I figured I should probably post it here.

Open Registry Editor by going to Start -> Run and typing in regedit.
Go to File -> Connect Network Registry… and type in the name of the computer where you want Remote Desktop enabled.  Click OK.
Go to […]

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It sure sounds like it. According to Reuters, Wal-Mart has decided to abandon Toshiba’s HD DVD format and will only sell Blu-ray players and movies starting in June of this year. Best Buy and Netflix earlier this week have decided to only support the Blu-ray format as well.
Here’s a list of some of the companies […]

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Error Message: “Mapi session “/o=Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=JohnSmith” exceeded the maximum of 32 objects of type “session””.
Source: MSExchangeIS
Event ID: 9646
On the client side, the user is unable to connect to Microsoft Exchange or getting this error:
Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The Microsoft Exchange Server computer is not available. Either there are network problems […]

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Don’t forget this very important day! It’s the last Friday of July (July 25 for this year). Mark it on your calendar!
Ok, I have to admit that I actually didn’t know that such a day existed until I found this site, which is the official System Administrator Appreciation Day website.
According to the site, […]

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It’s that time of the month again, the second Tuesday of every month known as “Patch Tuesday,” the time when Microsoft releases its security updates.
According to Microsoft’s website, they will be releasing 12 new security updates this Tuesday, February 12. Seven considered “Critical”, five marked as “Important.”
Critical (7) - Software Affected:

Windows
Internet Explorer
Office
Visual Basic
VBScript
JSCript

Important (5) […]

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Error message: “An error occurred while retrieving information from the NCP. There may be a problem with your network connection. Error info: [12002 - Communications error: The request has timed out.]”

I got this error message earlier while trying to download call records from the NBX. The problem turned out to be Internet […]

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