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Ok, I’ve run across this a few times and while I’ve never (bothered) to (worry about/research) fix the issue permanently, here’s your workaround for the situation where you are trying to launch your Windows Vista VPN connection (PPTP, etc.) by choosing ‘Connect to a network’. Here’s what it looks like when it happens   Lame, …

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ‘built’ to be a SharePoint Guy).     I was awarded with …

Louis discovered this tonight – It is possible to shadow remote sessions in Visa (ala terminal services). Just head to the command prompt and type “query session“. This gives a list of available sessions.       Then type “shadow” followed by the session name or number.   Example: “shadow 9“ will shadow that session.

First off, apologies to the original author of this content… I had tucked this away in an Outlook note probably 8 years ago (I’ve updated it a little as it references modems, thankfully of which, I haven’t touched one in nearly that long). I didn’t note the author at the time and if they want …

Never mind the Shaw issues of late, keep in mind that the idiot George W and his ‘gosh, I like to muck with father time so we can find and sell more oil’ DST change the other day, may well be having a larger impacting/sweeping effect.   So, here’s my quick hit list for how …

Tried to play an MP4 file today on my Windows Vista Pro, Media Player 11 machine and wasn’t able to (it was generated by Jing, which is cool by the way, but it would be nice if it made a more common file format available for sharing).    Anyways, I was able to find the …

When moving a workstation from one domain to another, the existing profile won’t load obviously (with all of their previous settings such as wallpaper, and other personalization’s and local profile data) and the default user profile will take effect for the new user… While there are automated migration tools you can use, they are often …

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 …

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 …

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 …