I just did a hack for one of my customers to stop one problem employee surfing on Facebook all day. While I'm no fan of blanket barring of web access, in this instance we needed some simple, short-term measures that didn't warrant any real expenditure on full-blown web filtering tools. The technique...
I recently had a problem with a customer running all Windows Vista clients on an SBS 2003 R2 domain. The problem was how to deploy printers to users who have restricted access (i.e. standard users). The users cannot install the printer drivers themselves because they do not have permission - nor should...
I recently had a problem with a customer running all Windows Vista clients on an SBS 2003 R2 domain. The problem was how to deploy printers to users who have restricted access (i.e. standard users). The users cannot install the printer drivers themselves because they do not have permission - nor should...
In Sean Daniel's blog entry on using Windows Vista clients on SBS and he covers adding the SBS SSL certificate so that Vista can connect to Remote Web Workplace (see the very end of the article under Non-joined Vista clients accessing SBS ). However, I tripped up because I allowed Vista to select the...
Most computer users - particularly home users but even many business users - log into their computer with Administrative rights. In the case of home users, often no passwords are used and family members may all share the same default login account. While it seems like an easy option, this is an ill-advised...
Most computer users - particularly home users but even many business users - log into their computer with Administrative rights. In the case of home users, often no passwords are used and family members may all share the same default login account. While it seems like an easy option, this is an ill-advised...