Tag: Windows
All the articles with the tag "Windows".

SMC & JBoss Cipher Suites
Disabling weak cipher suites in Sophos Mobile Control

Exchange 2013 Error: "The Microsoft Exchange Diagnostics service terminated unexpectedly"
Had this showing up regularly in the event log of one of our Exchange servers. A quick delete of the following keys and a reboot all sorted: HKLM\SOFTWARE\

Sophos Mobile Control
When upgrading from v6.1.4 to v7.0.8 I ran aground as it came up with a very bland error message: "Error! Database update error. Please contact support." N

Putting Exchange into Maintenance Mode
Before performing any type of software or hardware maintenance on a DAG member, you should first place the DAG member into maintenance mode. This involves

Using NMAP for SSL/TLS Testing
Updated:NMAP is a great too for port monitoring but it also has some scripting features that are really handy to find weaknesses in your SSL/TLS deployments. You c

Windows Proxy Fun & Games
Updated:We replaced one of our old 2008 domain controllers with 2012 a few weeks ago. Today we found some odd behaviour in trying to access the internet from the n

Linux WMI Client
Updated:I'm trying to gather some inventory data from our Windows Servers and thought I'd try to do this from a Linux environment. There is a wmi client for Linux

VMware Horizon Infrastructure Upgrade
Updated:Upgrading VMware Horizon is going to be a fun task for the weekend. It means upgrading 3 connection servers, a security server, the vcenter server and the composer server. This is all so we can disable SSLv3 on the ESXi hosts they all run on.

Electron Installer for Windows
How to package and deliver an Electron Windows app. http://www.christianengvall.se/electron-windows-installer/

Windows DKIM DNS Entry
Updated:Windows always gives me a bit of grief when trying anything a little out of the ordinary. I always find doing the same thing on Linux way simpler. This time it was relating to a DNS TXT entry for DKIM that is longer than 255 characters.