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February 2007 - Posts

• Home Routers come under fire

  I have always said to people I know "First thing, change the default password." It doesnt matter if it is a router, switch, windows install or anything, just change it - secure it for goodness sake.  If you dont change the default password you are asking for trouble.. read below to find out more: http://www.theregister.com/2007/02/15/router_vuln/ Share this post:                                        Posted Feb 16 2007, 10:41 AM by Paul E Davey with 1 comment(s)

• Last Day of my VI 3.0 Course

  The last day has arrived on what has been a good and useful course. The instructor has been very good (Ian Fletcher) from SCH (www.specialistcomputerholdings.com). The course is very very good and if you are planning on using VI3 then I would recommend the course as you will get a very good heads up on the functionality, along with plenty of worthwhile lab work. If anyone would like any info about the course or has any questions please post them up to me here. Share this post:                                        Posted Feb 16 2007, 10:38 AM by Paul E Davey with no comments

• Vmware 3 Infrastructure : Install and Configure Course

  This week Im on my VI3 course at long last (taken a long time to get the sign off but got there eventually).  So far the course is good. I have installed VI3 a lot recently, played around with the Linux side of it (based on Redhat Enterprise 3 edition) and have been using it in my home lab to run some MS VM's (Vista, SMS, Exchange, AD). I am very impressed. There are some very nice new features in VI3 and the new VC (Virtual Centre) 2.0 client is smoking compared to the previous versions..  Hopefully I might have some useful tips to blog up if anyone is interested as the week progresses.  PS - I meant to say that Im wearing my Blogcast T Shirt on the first day of the course... A few people have commented and gone "oh yeah, I've seen that website!" :) Share this post:                                        Posted Feb 13 2007, 02:29 PM by Paul E Davey with 2 comment(s)

• Windows Vista IE7 and Exchange Webmail (Problems & Fix)

  OK - so you have vista loaded and of course it includes IE7. But.. when you login to your Exchange 2003 webmail, you find you have the following problems. - Cannot compose a new e-mail message. - Cannot reply to an e-mail message. - Unable to create a new contact, task, note, journal entry, or appointment. - Unable to change any configuration in the Outlook Web Access options folder. It seems that this is a real problem for people and there doesnt appear to be a well documented resolution for the issue.. until now. Here it is people. KB911829, a hotfix for Exchange will resolve the problem. The whole problem is down to DHTML in IE within Vista (and the lack of support), so webmail is broken. You would have thought that they would have tested this one before release wouldnt you? Oh, and by the way I have tested it here in my Lab environment and yes, you *DO* have to bounce your box and have some outage to get the hotfix to properly apply and work. The hotfix is great, but if you have problems trying to convince your Exchange admin to install it or dont want to wait, here is a workaround. Client Workaround - The S/Mime Fix! On the client, login to webmail as normal. Now go to the Options Menu and select to install the update for S/Mime. Voila.. once installed normal service is resumed. I hope that this tip helps some of you sys admins out! Share this post:                                        Posted Feb 13 2007, 02:27 PM by Paul E Davey with 1 comment(s)