An interesting article in “The Register” about poor password security, and 3 helpful resources (at the very bottom of the piece) for improving yours! Worthwile reading for anyone who uses passwords, i.e. everyone!!! Regardless how “secret” you keep your password(s), if they are not complex enough they WILL be easily compromised. So please review the …
(Shamelessly based on this other blog!) (Oh and if you have no idea what SSL is the read up on it here!) This option does NOT apply if you want to use an SSL certificate which is automatically trusted by users outside your control (i.e. on a website used by clients / the general public). In …
Great tool to check if your DNS settings (inc MX) are replicating consistently across multiple, disparate DNS servers. http://mob.net/~ted/tools
Just thought I’d share: http://www.intodns.com an excellent DNS checker I just found, for those of you who find that sort of thing as interesting / valuable as I do! 🙂
If you manage your email services & you are experiencing a lot of undelivered / returned / “disappearing” outgoing email, although some outgoing messages get through, but incoming email is always delivered just fine, then it is highly likely that your outgoing email server (which may or may not be the same as your incoming …
Below are the commands to include in “Shutdown” & “Startup” batch files. These commands will fully shutdown / startup all Exchange 2003 services cleanly and in the correct order. These files are useful in a number of situations, particularly; 1. Pre server shutdown: Windows Server is not very good (OK, it’s terrible!) at managing these …
Where would we be without “t’internet”, even more lonely, that’s where! Thusly it is often useful to be able to manipulate your systems IP settings directly. Below are the building blocks for batch files which you can use to, for instance, switch between multiple “IP setups” instantly (i.e. “work”, “home” & “mobile” setups, for instance). …
SharePoint is a very powerful and flexible tool. However, there are some areas where it’s not as simple as logging into the admin area of it to change the way it works. Sometimes you have to get “down & dirty” with it to make it do what you need it to do. Sometimes even for …