December 2011 - Posts

Security vulnerability on Printer environments
Published Sat, Dec 24 2011 16:44 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions so frantic that it could eventually catch fire? Or use a hijacked printer as a copy machine for criminals, making it easy to commit identity theft or even take...
Microsoft Windows win32k.sys Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Published Fri, Dec 23 2011 14:37 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via e...
How to install TMG 2010 Service Pack on Branch Office Server
Published Wed, Dec 21 2011 18:55 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
When you try to install a service pack for Forefront TMG 2010 on a branch office server, it will fail, because the Firewall service needs to be stopped. When Firewall service has been stopped the connection to headquarter is not longer active. This will...
Windows 7 can play audio to only one port at a time
Published Mon, Dec 19 2011 16:10 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
A limitation of Microsoft Windows 7 is that audio data can only be sent to a single output source. If both the HDMI and Audio Out ports have devices connected to them, then Windows generally defaults to the HDMI port. As a result, sound cannot play through...
AMD Eyefinity multi-display and Windows 7
Published Fri, Dec 16 2011 10:50 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
When using AMD Eyefinity technology with multiple displays, and selecting a desktop resolution that exceeds 8k pixels in any dimension, currently there are some issues occuring. This article published from AMD team explains how to troubleshoot and solve...
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Monitoring NetApp SnapManager and SnapDrive with Microsoft SCOM
Published Thu, Dec 8 2011 17:37 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
NetApp Reference Architect for Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Santhosh Rao, has published two very interesting articles how to monitor SnapManager and SnapDrive with Microsoft System Center Operation Manager. You should read this https://communities...
Exchange 2010 Hybrid Deployments
Published Thu, Dec 8 2011 17:02 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
With Exchange 2010 SP2 you received the new Hybrid Configuration Wizard included as an enhancement of Exchange Management Console (EMC) and with additional cmdlets on Exchange Management Shell (EMS). The new wizard will guide, verify and configure for...
What is new in Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2
Published Mon, Dec 5 2011 21:16 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
… read the article on TechNet here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh529924.aspx You will find some very useful features now implemented. Read carefully about Mailbox Replication Service, as it will support you now on your way to Office365...
Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 available
Published Mon, Dec 5 2011 10:44 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
You can download it from here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28190 Exchange 2010 SP2 is a complete installation software pack, so for new Exchange installations, you can use it to start with from scratch. Also when you use it for...
AMD Catalyst Windows 8 Preview Driver Release
Published Fri, Dec 2 2011 10:30 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
Follow the link, this article provides information on the AMD/ATI Catalyst Windows 8 Preview Driver. http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Windows8PreviewDriver.aspx Currently there are drivers only for 5xxx and 6xxx series available.
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Recommendations on Reseeding Exchange 2010 databases
Published Thu, Dec 1 2011 22:22 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
When I met my former fellow Microsoft MVP, Mark Arnold, and Microsoft Technical Architect, Alex Jauch, from NetApp on Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011 in Atlanta, I was also able to watch some new achievements they have had on Exchange storage and Hyper-V Virtual...