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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Scheduling Reboots for the Access Gateway

25-Aug-06

Martijn Kools has very kindly let me repost his instructions for enabling SSH on the Access Gateway and scheduling a reboot. WARNING: This is a totally unsupported method for enabling SSH. Be sure to have a backup of the config of the AG and access to the Access Gatway CD to be able to perform [...]

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Esker Tun PLUS Requires Administrative Access

25-Aug-06

Today’s entrant into the Hall of Shame is Esker Tun PLUS which can be used to provide an ActiveX based terminal emulator via the web. This product downloads no less than 11 ActiveX controls and then wants the user to run an application named TRUST.EXE from a page that has the following text:
You are attempting [...]

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The Ten Commandments of Exchange Server

25-Aug-06

After performing two Exchange disaster recoveries in as many months, I’ve come up with a list of Fifteen Ten Commandments for Exchange Server

Thou shalt not place the log files and databases on the same physical disks
Thou shalt not store the log files or the databases on the system partition
Thou shalt use redundant paths [...]

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Profile Changes in Windows Vista/Longhorn Server

25-Aug-06

Windows Vista and Longhorn Server introduce a number of new user profile paths and environment variables that differ from earlier versions of Windows and these changes may have an impact on scripts such as logon scripts and application install scripts. Most scripts should work correctly - VBScript scripts that use system functions to find folder [...]

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