Ever wonder why the IT department ask you for the EXACT error message and then have to repeat the request (several times) when the reply is “something like……” – well if you read the first reply to this help request you will know the reason why.
How to tweak the IMF filter v2 in exchange is a good article on white or blacklisting phrases in the subject or body of incoming messages.
DansGuardian is a linux based web content filtering package that I’ve never heard of until two blogs just posted about it. Although I’m unlikely to use it for the near future, I’m blogging it now just in case as I do have some people who need web filtering appliances.
Funny Panda’s playing in a playground – I loved the way they slid down the slide.
I got Petra’s Farewell album for my birthday this morning (Thanks Tim and Ruth)and it is awesome. It’s taken me ages to actually listen to the whole album as I keep “rewinding” (that is such an outdated word nowadays) tracks to listen to them again and again.
It’s Petra as I remember them – there are a couple of songs from their recent songs, but most of them are from the older albums which were much better than their last couple. They have a couple of the old members making an appearance – but Louie Weaver is missing which is a shame as he was a very talented and funny drummer.
Incidentally, this post has an enhanced amazon listing for the cd product – something I’m beta testing with amazon.
This has been doing the rounds but I think some people haven’t seen it yet – Real Life Simpson credits. The blackboard and sofa gag don’t change each time you watch it though 🙂
Now this blog, detailing the best greasy spoons makes me really hungry – especially as it’s 90 minutes past tea time and I’m still at work.
I’ve noticed in the past that gmail isn’t secure by default – the initial signon is secured with ssl but then you go back to standard web pages, and therefore open for sniffing. This has prevented me from checking my mail in certain places as I’ve no idea what else is on the network. However, if you go to https://gmail.google.com to sign on, then your ensuing gmail traffic is still encrypted.
You can get another 10 mins of skypeout by signing into skype. They are going to be doing more of these days and you need to watch the share skype blog for more details.
Using the script at the technet script center I was able to quickly go through and modify all the users properties for their terminal server profile. It is not possible to do this by bulk selecting the users, right clicking and choosing properties and then entering in \\server\dir\%username% like you would for the home directory.