Internet Explorer Emergency Patch

Posted on December 17th, 2008 webmaster No comments          Print

Microsoft just released this patch early today.  It’s supposed to patch a very serious vulnerability in IE and some security analysts are even suggesting to use a different browser until the vulnerability is completely patched.

If you’re using WSUS it should already be available, we synchronized our WSUS server early this afternoon and set a deadline for it to get it installed on all our computers as soon as possible.

Read more about it here.

Windows XP: Updating a domain account’s local cached password

Posted on December 3rd, 2008 webmaster No comments          Print

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 this.  I want to be able to log in with my domain account directly then log in to the VPN as it is more convenient so here’s what I did to update the local cache for my domain profile:

1. Log in as local Administrator.
2. Log in to the VPN.
3. While still connected to the VPN, do a “Run As” on a program.  In my case, I did a “Run As” with Outlook (press shift+right mouse click on the program’s icon, choose the option “Run As…” -> “The following user:” myDomain\username -> enter your current domain password) and the program should open using the profile of the user you wanted to run as.
4. Log off (which will also disconnect the VPN connection).
5. Log back in to your domain account using your current domain password and it should take it.

If you’re already able to log in with the cached password, but your current domain password is different from the cached password, while connected to the VPN you can just press CTRL+ALT+DEL, choose the option “Lock Computer”, and then unlock it but this time using your current domain password and that should update the cached password.

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user…

Posted on October 24th, 2008 webmaster No comments          Print

Error Message:

\\x.x.x.x is not accessible.  You might not have permission to use this network resource.  Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed.  Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again.

I get this once in a while when working on files remotely.  To make it go away, do the following:

1. Go to Start->Run, type in cmd and hit Enter.
2. Type net use to view all mapped network shares.
3. Type net use \\network_share /del to disconnect that specific network share or  type net use * /del to disconnect all network shares.