Is Cloud Computing Really Risk Transference?
Wed, 18/02/09 – 13:07 | No Comment

The current buzz in the technology industry is all about this idea of Cloud Computing. It goes by many many names but we’ll just stick with this one to eliminate confusion.

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Help New Server
Tuesday, 20 Jan, 2009 – 9:24 | No Comment

Hello all I have a Windows Server 2003 Standard Adition x86 running my network. We just got a new server with Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise
x64 Edition. I want to run both on the …

Problem deploying Service Pack and Patches on Win2K Advance Server
Monday, 19 Jan, 2009 – 23:39 | No Comment

Hello,
I am facing problems while installing security patches on Windows 2000
Advance Server.
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I have created two drives c and D.OS is installed in D Drive.Whenever try yo
install the updates or Service packs (Win 2k …

KB954430 - Microsoft security update
Monday, 8 Dec, 2008 – 10:41 | No Comment

[X-post to Windows Update newsgroup]
See these recent discussions, Rusty:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro…=0&scorin g=d

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
Rusty wrote:
> …

Can’t access any webs sites that contain anti virus fixes
Friday, 5 Dec, 2008 – 16:42 | No Comment

Thanks Dave
Unfortunately I cannot open a any of those listed sites except your Generic
Trojan / Adware Removal Procedures page and the Mcafee download. I downloaded
and ran the Stinger app and it found no problems. …

computer only starts in safe mode after downloading XP updates
Friday, 5 Dec, 2008 – 14:01 | No Comment

bronte wrote:
> I’ve been working on my father’s computer (an HP pavillion zv5000),
> and realized that he had some Windows XP updates to be installed,
> so I decided to download them. What I didn’t …

Offline Root CA Maintainance Best Practice Query.
Friday, 5 Dec, 2008 – 3:24 | No Comment

Dear All,
We have two tier CA architecture in our Enviornment. A Offline Root CA and
an online issueing CA. We have kept the Offline Root CA on a VM. The VM is
turned off. But …

vista64bit can’t see xp pc’s on network
Thursday, 27 Nov, 2008 – 9:05 | No Comment

unable to see xp shared pcs on vista network, and vice versa:
1. pc’s can ping each other with no errors.
2. Tried with firewalls disabled and av software removed
3. xp pcs can see each …

SP1 & SP2 Individual Updates
Tuesday, 25 Nov, 2008 – 18:45 | No Comment

Lakota29033 wrote:
> I am trying to find each of the individual updates included in SP1
> & SP2. I found the page that lists the problems fixed with SP1,
> but not the individual updates. I …

Password for hotfix kb885443 does not work
Tuesday, 25 Nov, 2008 – 15:35 | No Comment

Hi,
I downloaded the hotfix patch for kb 885443 and the passwords provided in
the email does not work. I’ve tried copy pasting as well as manually typing
it in. What should be my next step? …

Has Microsoft recently introduced "Loopback check" functionality in Windows 2000?
Monday, 24 Nov, 2008 – 8:38 | No Comment

Hi Folks,
I think the answer to my question is “Yes”, but hopefully someone can
confirm and/or point me to the particular security patch that introduced it.
Recently - on the 14th of November when …

The login user interface failed to load
Sunday, 23 Nov, 2008 – 11:09 | No Comment

[X-post to WinXP General]
Is the machine fully patched at Windows Update?
What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)?
What third-party firewall (if any)? …

Preliminary Success of KB908531 Won’t Change
Wednesday, 19 Nov, 2008 – 11:33 | No Comment

We have been unable to get MS06-015 (908531) installed on a handful of
machines and noticed that the LastStateName is “Preliminary Success”. The
patch was sent out many times and the PatchInstall.Log in CCM\Logs indicates
that it …