The Network Administrator

I think without a doubt this is the future of entertainment for us all.

Roku is a little box that allows you to instantly stream tons of entertainment on your TV. Watch movies and TV shows from Netflix, Hulu Plus (coming this Fall) or Amazon VOD, listen to music on Pandora, catch the latest ballgame, and more — it’s all available whenever you want it.

In Exchange 2010 SP1, ISInteg is no longer a standalone program.

The functionality provided by the ISInteg tool has been rolled into two new Exchange Management Shell cmdlets:

New-MailboxRepairRequest
New-PublicFolderDatabaseRepairRequest

These new ISInteg cmdlets come with some cool new functionality!
The cmdlets work with the database mounted. It’s no longer required to unmount the database to perform an integrity check or fix database errors.
You can repair logical corruption at the mailbox level.
You can fix corrupt search folders.
You can fix the Provisional Fid.
You can fix Aggregate Counts.

More info….

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/08/23/455899.aspx

You can disable this warning by:

1.Going to Tools->Internet Options->Security
2.Select the ‘Security’ tab
3.Click the ‘Custom Level’ button
4.In the ‘Miscellaneous’ section change “Display mixed content” to Enable

If is a link below to all the other cool things about SQL DBMail, but I want to highlight the fact that within the msdb database there is table which contains all the emails sent out from DBMail.

Logging. Database Mail logs e-mail activity to SQL Server, the Microsoft Windows application event log, and to tables in the msdb database.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175887.aspx

I am often asked what i use for photo editing. I like to use a free photo editor called Photoscape, which lets you do the following and more…

Viewer: View photos in your folder, create a slideshow

Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons,

mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming, clone stamp

Batch editor: Batch edit multiple photos

Page: Merge multiple photos on the page frame to create one final photo

Combine: Attach multiple photos vertically or horizontally to create one final photo

Animated GIF: Use multiple photos to create a final animated photo

Print: Print portrait shots, carte de visites(CDV), passport photos

Splitter: Slice a photo into several pieces

Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it

Color Picker: Zoom in on images, search and pick a color

Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode

Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG

Paper Print: Print lined, graph, music and calendar paper

Face Search: Find similar faces on the Internet

We have all been there, someone is having an issue and we wish we could just see their screen. There are plenty of expensive solutions and a few free ones. I personally like https://join.me/, which offers free screen sharing. Have the person who needs your help go to https://join.me, click share and follow the easy steps on the screen. They will get a code, which they can email to you the guru or you can visit https://join.me, and choose join.

1. Open .htaccess file in your root folder

2. Add these lines:


Options All -Indexes
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php


3. Save and hopefully see it work

http://g.live.com/1rewlive4-web/en/wlsetup-web.exe??WLI=1&WLXID=851cc5cd-ad28-453f-9ab3-3cbaa633e2e2&RID=001dbb32c1a&TID=1288661382438&lid=

Windows Live Essentials 2011 includes Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, Family Safety, and Windows Live Mesh, plus Bing Bar, Messenger Companion, Microsoft Silverlight, and Outlook Connector Pack (Microsoft OutlookHotmail Connector and Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger).

With the updated security in Windows, users and administrators may no longer be able conduct certain tasks within Windows such as download and extract ZIP files or download and install patches (Microsoft or otherwise).

Common symptoms are when a user or administrator saves or accesses a file which Windows has deemed a security are popups stating, “Windows found that this file is potentially harmful” and “To help protect your computer, Windows has blocked access to this file”, additionally giving a link to instructions that do not pertain to the issue.

Below are instructions for resolving this issue.

Instructions

1.Open the Group Policy Editor

1.If on a local PC/Laptop, go to RUN and type GPEDIT.MSC and click OK.

2.If on a Domain computer, open the Group Policy Management Tool from the Administrative Tools in the Start Menu.

2.Browse to the following:
USER CONFIGURATION \ ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES \ WINDOWS COMPONENTS \ ATTACHMENT MANAGER

3.Set the DEFAULT RISK LEVEL FOR FILE ATTACHMENTS to LOW RISK.

4.Set the INCLUSION LIST FOR HIGH RISK FILE TYPES as follows.

NOTE: The file extension is “.____” (four underscores).

5.Set the INCLUSION LIST FOR MODERATE RISK FILE TYPES as follows.

NOTE: The file extension is “.____” (four underscores).

6.Set the INCLUSION LIST FOR LOW FILE TYPES as follows.

NOTE: The file extensions are:
.ade;.adp;.asx;.bas;.bat;.chm;.cmd;.com;.cpl;.crt;.exe;.hlp;.hta;.inf;.ins;.isp;.js;.jse;.lnk;.mdb;.mde;.msc;.msi;.msp;.mst;.pcd;.pif;.prf;.reg;.scf;.scr;.sct;.shb;.shs;.url;.vb;.pdf;.ace;.arc;.arj;.bh;.cab;.fea;.fzs;.gz;.tgz;.jar;.lha;.lzh;.pak;.pk3;.rar;.tar;.uue;.uu;.enc;.xxe;.z;.zoo;.zip

7.Set the TRUST LOGIC FOR FILE ATTACHMENTS to PREFERRING THE FILE TYPE.

8.Enable DO NOT PRESERVE ZONE INFORMATION IN THE FILE ATTACHMENTS.

9.Disable HIDE MECHANISMS TO REMOVE ZONE INFORMATION.

10.Disable NOTIFY ANTIVIRUS PROGRAMS WHEN OPENING ATTACHMENTS (most antivirus programs know when this happens anyways).

To apply the policy updates, go to RUN and type “GPUPDATE /FORCE”. If asked to reboot or logout, do so

http://sectools.org/vuln-scanners.html
http://www.nessus.org/nessus/
http://www.wireshark.org/
http://www.hping.org/
http://www.cirt.net/nikto2
http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra/
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/
http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/superscan.htm
http://www.eeye.com/Products/Retina.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx