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Microsoft KB 187498 describes the registry values that can be used to disable various security protocols. Disabling SSLv2 is as easy as

This does require a reboot to put into affect.

Did you ever hear a student say, “I wish I understood what the professor wanted with this assignment?”  Have your students ever asked how you came to a specific grade? Have you felt the need to create more […]

It seems like we hear this more and more: “I’ve been crazy busy!” So, in the interest of getting to “sane busy,” I’m listing here what I think are some of the best work tools and techniques for time and task […]

I administer a server VM with a lot of disks, and many of them are the same size. When I need to make changes to the system’s storage, I’m always nervous that I’m going to poke the wrong disk. I could trust that […]

It started with an alert from System Center Operations Manager about a failed scheduled task. Of course, the alert references a task name that looks like a SID.  Running schtasks /query show a few jobs with a […]

This semester I had the privilege of presenting the workshop “Building Your Stress Toolbox: Minimizing the Impact of Stress on Your Life & on You.” I held the workshop twice, once for the Womyn@Noon program […]

I have been working on a function to convert the output of NET SHARE commands into usable PowerShell objects. In the course of my work, I was storing the output of the command in a variable, which I later pass […]

This video of a presentation by Scott Chacon has helped me start to get my head around Git.

I’ve started experimenting with Git in my current PowerShell project, and I’m going to […]

The iClicker is a version of a student response system and at the University of Vermont we have adopted the iClicker as our preferred version of a student response system. We are in the process of installing […]

For my first post to the CTL blog, I wanted to share some resources with the larger UVM community as a follow-up to my Sound (Teaching) Bite this week that offered a few strategies and tools for educators to help students assess their own learning styles and abilities to read, comprehend, understand, and learn course materials. The focus [...]

I’m working on some storage issues with our file services, and DFS Namespace services may the the best solution. But I will need to be able to keep the permissions on the DFS folders with targets in sync with the […]

For the past eight month, I’ve been working with EMC and Microsoft to diagnose a problem. Several time a month, during the backup of our primary Windows 2008 R2 file server, all the VSS shadow copies get deleted […]

Recently, I wanted to provide a client with a list of groups that related to some work he was doing. I wanted the group names as well as their location with AD. Although I often use the ds* commands or excellent ADfind tool for this type of task, I had been working in PowerShell on another [...]

Recently, I wanted to provide a client with a list of groups that related to some work he was doing. I wanted the group names as well as their location with AD. Although I often use the ds* commands or excellent <a href="http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm&quot; […]

In my discussion and demo at the IT-Discuss Live – Security event in May, I used a short slide deck to describe—in broad terms—how PGP Whole Disk Encryption works. This laid the foundation for working through some […]

I really like the newer event log model on Windows 2008 family, and the flexibility of the XML events and the queries that makes possible.
Recently, I started noticing a quiet failure of a scheduled task. The […]

Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.

There are some things that we can’t really do without. But good old Yankee thrift pains me every time I have to replace printer consumables. I have a <a…[Read more]

We use EMC NetWorker for our enterprise backup solution. Since we migrated our primary file server from a NetApp filer to a native Windows server, we’ve been having a recurring problem with all the Shadow Copies […]

Amid the praise for and complaints about the newer version of webmail, we received a plea from a netbook user. She pointed out that the new layout made it very difficult to navigate among her mail folders. I use a […]

I’ve been working on a script to generate an informative message to users when they exceed quota thresholds on our file server. The features of the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) provides a variety of useful […]

Experimenting with querying WMI from Perl with Win32::OLE, I ran across the following WMI query options in an Perl example from Microsoft’s Script Center: After some digging, I found the following explanation of […]

I spent a some time configuring the Eventlog-to-Syslog service on my domain controllers, yesterday. A bunch of that time was spent trying to figure out why the service wasn’t able to read the config file I had […]

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