Thanks to very good antivirus called AVG Free, their makers are now collecting data about your activity in the Internet and what's more worrying about other applications you may have on a devices with installed AVG Free. AVG states that it will not sell data that will allow buyers to identify you but only IF they will become aware [...]
New and updated version for Debian Stretch and OCS Inventory NG server 2.5 can be found here! In this easy tutorial we will install and configure OCS-NG Server. If you want to know what OCS-NG is, please read below and visit product site. Table of contents: What is OCS-NG Requirements for this tutorial [...]
If your Windows 7 Event Log is getting filled with the following error: Session "Circular Kernel Context Logger" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035 With details like: Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing/Admin Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing Date: 15/09/2009 14:48:38 Event ID: 2 Task Category: Session Level: Error Keywords: Session User: SYSTEM Computer: Picsoetje-PC Description: Session "Circular Kernel [...]
There are times, when you as an IT admin have something called a senior-moment and on the brand new server when creating a data store for file server (or virtual machine) you format data partition as MBR (Master Boot Record). It doesn't really make any difference unless you want to have: more than 4 primary partition [...]
Recently I received a notebook that once didn't load Windows, USB stick (bootable) - at all. The first thing was to enable booting. The problem occurred after reset of the BIOS. I assumed the CMOS battery has depleted. Generally, no big deal. Switch off UEFI boot option and enable legacy instead. After booting, however a [...]
We are all excited about new Windows 10 well, maybe most or some of us :) New Microsoft policy regarding upgrade might seem cool but in my opinion there must be some catches. I can only imagine what kind of data will be exchanged by a computer and Microsoft servers before upgrading - in preparing [...]
Setting maximum attachment size for outlook - a little warning When you want to change maximum attachment size for Microsoft Outlook, you may see on the Internet guides that you may set this limit to actually - unlimited. This might be done by setting proper registry key to value of "0": For Outlook 2013: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Preferences [...]
There are times, when after creating and setting up domain environment you realize that you made a mistake in naming convention. For example domain with .local or .intranet was used. According to Microsoft and many sources like for example mdmarra.com blog you should avoid TLD and avoid above names since they are now sold by ICANN and [...]
Recently we tried to migrate our old Windows Server 2003 box holding Active Directory FSMO roles to Windows 2008 R2. After joing 2008r2 to our domain we wanted to transfer all FSMO roles to it. It all went well without any problems. Next step was to join another 2008r2 as second DC and demote old [...]
Most of you, who post some information or stories on your blogs have encountered spam comments. There are many plugins/tools/addons to help you filter out spam comments and messages. But this post isn't about that. Some of you might wonder, how those messages are generated. There is simple script that generates messages from lists like [...]
