Leopard vs Vista

Mac's Leopard vs Microsoft Vista

 

From the start, Vista crashed noticeably less than XP Pro with SP2; it just doesn't work with 50 percent of new software—a year after its shrink-wrapped release. Here's the point, in case any Apple reps missed it: Microsoft has delivered clear improvements in stability over time—a feat you'd think Apple might want to emulate, A month of using Leopard with the same software as on Tiger and the OS has dumped six times.

Botnet Computers

Botnet computers

 

More than 1 million computers in the last five months have become part of robot networks, or "botnets," in which hackers take over computers without their owners' knowledge and use them in criminal campaigns, the FBI said Thursday. The bureau in June announced Operation Bot Roast to stop this emerging type of cyber attack, which the FBI estimates has resulted in $20 million in losses and theft.

 

More than 1 million computers were infected with botnets when the FBI launched Bot Roast, and another million have been identified since then. Industry numbers suggest there are millions more.

 

Store.exe process uses max. memory

The Store.exe process max's out the memory on a server running exchange.

SYMPTOMS

You may experience all the following symptoms on a Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 computer that is running the Exchange Server 5.5 Internet Mail Service:

•	An incoming SMTP e-mail message is not delivered. Instead, this message remains stuck in the Internet Mail Service queue.
•	The Store.exe process uses almost 100 percent of CPU resources.
•	You cannot stop the Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service

 

This problem occurs if Exchange Server 5.5 receives an e-mail message that has a corrupted font name

Scan Management Console

One of our clients use a network scanner that scans to a shared folder off of an XP Professional pc. They had said that the scans were not showing up in the folder after scanning so I logged into the pc and restarted the Scan Management Console which did not resolve the issue. I then looked at the server status and it had 1.9GB free space for the scans so I knew that they had not maxed out the memory. I noticed that the status of the scan management console said that the scan service was suspended so I went under computer management and restarted the service for the scan management console but when I reopened the utility it still said that the service was suspended. I clicked on the start menu and went to all programs and highlighted the scan management console and noticed that there were options under there to either suspend the service or to start the service, once I clicked on start the service all of their scans began showing up in the shared scans folder. Issue resolved.

MySpace Pages Compromised

Some Myspace pages try to install malicious software on the victim's PC. If the victim's software is not fully patched, this can happen silently, but if that fails, the sites will tell the victim that he needs to install a video codec. That file is actually malware, researchers say

Recent Document list is taking over the Start Menu

To turn this list on or off, right-click the Start button, select Properties, and click the Start Menu tab. In XP, click Customize, Advanced, check or uncheck List my most recently opened documents, and click OK twice. In Vista, check or uncheck Store and display a list of recently opened files, and click OK.

Email disappearing from your inbox?

In Microsoft Outlook, why is my Exchange email disappearing from my Inbox at work after I read it at home?

If you have an Exchange server account, you have an Exchange server mailbox, which can store your email directly on the server. When your email is stored in your Exchange server mailbox, you can get to your stored email messages from any computer. However, when you connect to the Exchange server using Outlook, with mail delivery directed to your personal folders, unread mail will be moved into the Inbox of your personal folders instead of being stored in your Exchange server mailbox. Follow the appropriate instructions below to change this behavior:

Outlook 2002 or 2003

1. From the Tools menu, select E-mail Accounts... .
2. Select View or change existing email accounts, and then click Next.
3. Next to "Deliver new email to the following location:", from the drop-down menu, select Mailbox - Your last name, Your first name. Click OK.

Outlook 97, 98, or 2000

1. From the Tools menu, select Services... .
2. Select the Delivery tab. Next to "Deliver new mail to the following location:", select Mailbox - Your last name, Your first name. Click OK.

To move messages already stored in personal folders back to the server mailbox, drag them from your personal folder to a folder in the mailbox. For more information, see the Knowledge Base document In Microsoft Outlook, how do I move one or more messages to another folder? If you cannot see the list of folders, from the View menu, select Folder List.

Note: If your personal folders are only on your home computer, you will have to use your home computer to do this.

After directing mail delivery to your Exchange server mailbox, you can still use your personal folders to permanently store or make copies of your email on your personal computer.

Recovering deleted messages

If you are looking for an email message that you deleted from your personal folders, you may be able to recover it from Outlook's deleted items retention area. For more information, see the following Knowledge Base document At IU, how can I recover deleted items in Outlook if I am an Exchange user?

Also see:

• In Microsoft Outlook, how do I display and send the full headers of an email message?
• In Microsoft Outlook or Exchange, what options do I have for arranging the contents of my folders?
• In Microsoft Outlook 97, 98, 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007, how can I make additional folders?
• In Microsoft Outlook, OWA, or Exchange, how can I change the order in which my messages are listed in the folder?
• In Microsoft Outlook 2002, 2003, and 2007, what are personal folder files, and how do I create them?

 

Windows Vista features

My company had a customer inquire about getting a Windows Vista laptop and wanted particular features to be available. He wanted to make sure that the data on his pc would be secure even if it was lost or stolen. The first recommendation that I made was that he had a secure password on the pc which included upper case, lower case, a number and a symbol and that it be at a minimum of 7 characters. The second thing that I suggested was that he have a drive encryption which in Vista is Windows Bit Locker Drive Encryption and since he was not part of the Microsoft Software Assurance I recommended that he get the Ultimate edition as that is the only edition that offers the Drive Encryption. There were some other things that my company would do to insure the security of his pc but these built in features are a great starting point for security.

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Do it right the first time! It's sometimes difficult to understand the importance of the initial investment in a computer network.

We’ve not gained a few new business opportunities recently due to companies lack of startup capital and our disinterest in helping them due to their lack of care about their systems. They decide that they just want to make things work but don’t understand the importance of the initial investment in their computer network or IT systems. As a business we are more successful because we choose not to work for pennies on the dollar like many other IT folk. We invest in qualifying our potential clients as much if not more then they invest in us. We’ve found a direct correlation between the increased longevity of the companies based on both amount of initial investment, and seriousness with which they heed our advice when it comes to engineering a secure and efficient computer network.

 

As you may know we are, “Do it right the first time” guys and we’ve put more expertise into securing and optimizing business networks for management ease and efficiency.  That way you don’t spend all day every day trying to fix the little annoying issues, can have peace of mind that you have the most professional network possible with the given resources, and that it will cost much less. The first month standard maintenance is free as well!

 

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Mac's killing wireless

Mac users are reporting a number of problems with their wireless connections after updating to Leopard, according to traffic on Apple's support forums.

Users writing in a long thread — as of 3pm EDT it boasted more than 120 messages — described one issue as a steadily degrading wireless link from their upgraded Macs.

"When you connect to your wireless network, your transmit rate will be 54 (if you're using the 54g standard)," said someone identified as nunofgs. "If you start up a download or something that occupies your bandwidth (even LAN traffic), you will notice that the transmit rate drops to 11, then to 3, then to 1 until finally your downloads will drop, your iChat connections will fail and your browser will not load pages."

Numerous confirmations of the same symptoms were posted by other users. Among them was Gregory Sims. "I am having the same problem. After installing [Mac OS X] 10.5 my Power Mac G4 is very slow on the internet. The connection is worse than dial-up. I have never had this problem with 10.4 [Tiger]. My MacBook Pro is working fine, with a fast connection. I'm sorry to say 10.5 seems more like beta software than a US$129 upgrade. I hope this problem is fixed soon, or I will have to go back to 10.4."

Users suggested a variety of solutions, including applying the post-Leopard update Apple said fixes log-in issues as well as a vaguely-stated "connecting to some 802.11b/g wireless networks " problem. Other ideas ranged from finding and possibly removing the "AppleAirport2.kext" file to toggling IPv6 on/off.

Commonalities between users reporting the problem were difficult to define. Some, for instance, said they had used the "Upgrade" option to move to Leopard, while others said they had picked "Archive and Install" or even wiped their drives clean before installing Leopard from scratch.

Nearly all, however, made a plea similar to this by oxys: "Apple fix please Leopard is useless."

Although Apple hosts the support forums, the traffic is user-to-user only; company technical support personnel do not reveal themselves or offer advice

 

 

 

DocuPrep

Adding DocuPrep to a user on Terminal Server:

              From the C: drive copy the AC30 folder to the users profile, then open that folder and create a shortcut to the AC40.exe and place on the desktop. The Database is on the F: drive. DO NOT put the AC30 folder or shortcut on the All Users desktop as this will cause problems when more than one person tries to open it. If we want need to have all new users get the shortcut and the AC30 folder it should be put into the Default Users profile. All of this is per DocuPrep support