Thursday, September 09, 2010

Great Blog posting with information about Backup Exec 2010 R2

http://blog.lewan.com/2010/08/09/release-backup-exec-2010-r2/

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

BES 5.0 SP2 - just like an outlook user connection

In the past you had to figure additional number of exchange users when you had Blackberry Enterprise Server .... Seems like this is no longer the case.

http://flaphead.com/archive/2010/07/24/bes-5-0-sp2-blackberry-user-exchange-2010-iops-now-equal-to-an-outlook-client.aspx

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Windows XP unable to get updates - Security Essentials

Had a customer who had a workstation that was killing the DSL Internet connection.
We had run the Malware Bytes / Virpe rescue - it found nothing.

The workstation was running MS Security Essentials, Security Essentials was no longer able to get updates. Also trying to view the Windows Update website you got a page unavailable. I checked the windows hosts file, nothing there. I tried to ping windowsupdate.microsoft.com and saw what I expected.

Windows XP SP 2, running Security Essentials
No longer able to run Windows update website.

Error:
0x80072EFE - ERROR_INTERNET_CONNECTION_ABORTED - The connection with the server has been terminated.

Tried the fixit at-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058/en-us

Here are the issues that Security Essentials had found.
Alert Level Severe for all
Bubnix.gen!A - Removed
Brolocker.A – Quarantined
Gleishug.C – Removed

I suggested the customer reinstall Windows and all apps . Windows Restore Points were not enabled ( unless the virus removed them. )

Just told him the other possible path was to open a case with MS. I think they do some free cases for security issues.

Report a potential malware problem to Microsoft



Submit a Support Case

Some Old Favorites - productivity

Been wanting to change the way I track my times, hours , mileage, etc.

Looked at some Day Planners including the Staples the $40.00 was 8.5x11, there was a smaller one for $16.00.
* Item: 854613
* Model: 12934

they do not seem to sell 2010 online any more.

I looked up Pocket Mod, seems like it maybe a better fix for me anyway.

Also looked up TiddlyWiki which is a real cool way to save certain items. I used the GTD tiddly wiki before and liked it as well.