February 2009 - Posts

Calyptix, IP blocks, and SMTP servers
Published Fri, Feb 27 2009 16:07 | steveb
Calyptix Access Enforcer firewalls are great. I'm writing this post from behind our AE1000 right now. I'm a big fan of theirs and intend to deploy many more at our customer sites as we refresh their existing firewalls and servers. That said, there...
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Does Doyenz have their head in the clouds you ask?
Published Fri, Feb 27 2009 8:05 | steveb
"Suspended high among the pastel clouds of Bespin, held aloft by huge repulsorlifts built into its curved frame, is a floating metropolis of sophisticated beauty and political freedom. Cloud City exists not only as a mining colony, extracting valuable...
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Have a Calyptix and Microsoft Updates are failing?
Published Sun, Feb 22 2009 22:09 | steveb
Setting up a new Windows 2008 x64 Server and loading updates on a customer's Vista notebook. Having updates fail on the server with an 802002b error stating "Windows Update encountered an unknown error" on the 2008 box. I have also been...
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Do not install IPv6 on your SBS 2003 box
Published Sat, Feb 21 2009 6:24 | steveb
I owe the .NET team an apology for blaming them as the original cause of the problems described in this post. The pro and con of blog posting is that we can fire off a post and later find out there was a different cause for the effect we were hit with...
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EBS Console freezing or needing to restart SBS 2008 once a week or so? Look here for your answer.
Published Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:58 | steveb
Thanks to Chris Puckett and his team for working on this to get a resolution. We have seen this primarily with Trend Micro (our primary anti-virus product) but it is happening with any product using TDI, so if you are getting similar behavior from your...
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