Here’s one that took a little finding, hope it may be useful to someone. In this case, Domain policy was that no user may have administrative access to their pc, however a user needed to have the ability to change their network settings (from a switched to a fixed IP) for certain work related activities.. This seemed to…
Workaround for Kiwi Syslog file rotation disabled in free version.
Kiwi Syslog is a great little syslogger. However it is quite expensive for those just wanting to log a single firewall. The rotate logs feature is really handy, as it allows you to make multiple logs and delete old ones, rather than just letting a single log file grow to unmanageable proportions and fill up your C…
Cisco 857 half bridge mode
Many ISP’s allocate a /29 or /30 subnet without allocating a dedicated wan IP, this can be a bit of an annoyance if you are using a dedicated firewall other device requiring a public IP as well as a router. For example, if you get a business connection from BT, you generally get an additional…
STSUPLD.DLL sbs 2003, office 2010, wss 2.0, companyweb.
This one had me in varying degrees of annoyance for an afternoon, so I’m throwing it up here in the hope it may assist someone else in keeping their hair. We recently upgraded a client to Office 2010. They were on an SBS 2003 network, running a mixture of Windows XP and Windows 7. They…
RSCC become OpenDNS Enterprise UK reseller
With many IT departments looking for creative ways to deliver ‘more for less’, one area ripe for review is incumbent web filtering products. Web filtering allows companies to filter their employees internet access – most commonly for unsuitable and non work related sites, meeting legal obligations, improving productivity and conserving bandwidth. Some filters can also…
BES Express filling C drive on SBS 2003 server?
Here’s one thats cropped up on a few of the sbs 2003 servers in Stevenage we support. The fix was gathered from several locations, so thought I’d bring it all together here for anyone suffering the same issue. If Blackberry express is filling up your C drive, the first thing to do is check the…
Monitoring a file or folder for NTFS permissions changes
I recently had the need to monitor NTFS permission changes on a particular folder on a 2003 server, in more or less real-time. My first thought was to do so with windows auditing, but auditing a file or folder for change of permisions results in an event id 560. This is a very common event,…
BT Major service outage Mon 3rd Oct
For those of you suffering todays major service outage on BT’s adsl products you may just have come back online to find your smtp email (or any other service relying on a specific IP) no longer works. Check your ‘static’ ip address, BT in their hurry to fix things seem to have allocated dynamic IP…