We had to upgrade our mail gateway/anti-spam software on Sunday because one of our vendors requires us to use encryption when exchanging emails with them. The easiest solution is to use opportunistic TLS, where the server will always try to connect to the other server using the TLS protocol. If the other server supports TLS, then traffic is encrypted. If not, then the email is sent using just regular SMTP without encryption.
This is actually …
I was just updating some documentation on our wiki and found some old notes on automating Office 2007 installation. We upgraded our Microsoft Office software early last year from Office 2003 (and a few Office XP) to Office 2007 and this simple installation script saved us a lot of time. Here are the steps:
Step 1. Copy the contents of the Office 2007 installation CD (or package) to a network share (eg. \\server\Office12).
Step …
Warning: Changing the number of virtual processors after the guest OS is installed may make your virtual machine unstable.
You’ve probably seen this message before while working with VMware, especially if you’ve done physical to virtual migrations.
As a best practice, it is recommended to always start with only 1 vCPU when creating virtual machines and only increase the number of vCPUs if you think it’s necessary and if the virtual machine is actually running …
So I took a laptop home from work tonight to do some tests and I forgot that I haven’t logged in to that laptop with my domain account for quite some time now so I of course got the message “Domain YOURDOMAIN is not available” and I couldn’t log in.
I connect to our network over a VPN connection using Cisco VPN Client but I first have to be logged in to Windows to do …
I was looking through some old notes and found this, hope this helps: