Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Over the years, I’ve seen lots of talk on the use of long passwords and complex passwords, etc. and I’ve narrowed the noise down to two options, that we recommend to our clients (and I tend to lean towards the 2nd option). In order to maintain good security (and to satisfy management security concerns), we …

Getting this, when performing an IISRESET? Restart attempt failed. Restarting of Internet Services has been disabled. Basically, IISRESET got disabled.  Don’t know how that happened?  I’ve seen lots of discussions online about some patches that do not finish correctly and leave IISRESET in a ‘disabled’ state. So, when/if that happens, here’s how you correct the …

Many error messages/pop-ups since Windows XP came out, are *clipboard friendly*. Thus, if you get an error message like this…     The trick/deal is, you can press CTRL+C while it is open, and capture all that text, so that you can put *accurate* entries into Google or wherever you might want to search, for …

Wow, what an ugly problem tonight. And a whole bunch of FUD I found on Google that produced no help whatsoever.   Inventory Here’s the inventory of systems I had here (yours may differ) Windows Server 2008 IIS 7 WSS 3.0   Errors Event ID 7023, 7036, 5172, 5036 and 5005 Error text included things …

Over the years, I’ve seen lots of talk on the use of long passwords and complex passwords, etc. and I’ve narrowed the noise down to two options, that we recommend to our clients (and I tend to lean towards the 2nd option). In order to maintain good security (and to satisfy management security concerns), we …

Another standard (and neat NotePad trick) at itgroove. Pop-up Change Control prompts for servers.   Here’s the deal… Installation 1. On every server, you place the (TWO) txt files (compressed in the ZIP), in the All UsersStartup folder (I’ve put a copy of these files on my Blog at: /wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/SharePointDox/Change%20Control%20Text%20Files/CopyToAllUsersStartUp.zip. – Windows Server 2003 and …

Ran into the following today and appears the ‘ole Internet is littered with reasons for the possibility of it happening, none of which applied to me.  So, here’s my addition to that list… 🙂   I got this… Failed to update recipient “rgnetwork.ca/US1/Victoria – CA1/Users/itgroove Test User”. The following exception occurred: Exchange Server 2007 rgus1vmg01.rgnetwork.ca …

Argh, had to figure out how to turn off IE Security, just to access a basic, and common trusted site. While I like what Microsoft is trying to do, they are doing it in a horrific way, as usual…   So, if you’ve got this…   Do this… 1. Open Server Manager 2. Expand to …

Documentation is always the bummer for the IT Professional.  At itgroove, we try to excel at it (maybe because it’s an effort to set ourselves apart or gosh, because it is in the best interest of the client, whom we deeply respect and wish to keep).   One of the simplest ‘documentation’ techniques for keeping …

While it is always recommended to separate your ‘front-end’ Exchange Server (Edge) from the back-end (your Hub Transport), your budget doesn’t always allow this. So, to enable the following functions, on your standalone Exchange implementation… Connection Filtering Agent Content Filter Agent Sender ID Agent Sender Filter Agent Recipient Filter Agent Protocol Analysis Agent   You …