Operating Systems
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
As I’m sure most of us know by now, SHA1 cryptography hashes have been increasingly under attack, and are now regarded as fully broken. In fact, my use of “now” kinda understates the point; you should be urgently looking to upgrade to SHA2 if you have any devices or servers using certificates.
If you’re not aware of these risks then please look around. There are some good introductory articles on the entrust website that talk about this issue, but please note that these articles are from 2014 and somewhat understand the urgency of the issue.
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
Microsoft’s march towards filling their operating system with adverts continues, with people upset to see adverts for OneDrive popping up in Windows Explorer. And lets be honest, we’re all right to be annoyed. I think that’s certainly pretty intrusive. The Next Web has an article on how to turn it off (though ironically, when I first visited their site on my iPad it tried to take over my whole screen. Hmm… …something… something… attend to the beam in your own eye.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
At work I tend to turn up to meetings with a MacBook Pro. This surprises a few people who know me as a former Microsoft MVP, a Windows Server/Infrastructure person and the manager of a IT system that is predominantly Windows based.
The MacBook Pro isn’t ideal; it’s a 15" 2010 model and it is starting to be a problem. Even with a SSD installed, it’s starting to get slow and cranky when it comes to waking up.
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Sunday, October 2, 2016
{There was a section here on converting Windows 2016 server eval to full version for enterprise customers, but as Windows 2016 is properly out there now it seems pointless. I've pasted what was here into the comments below in case anyone needs it} Upgrading ADFS The first question after deciding to roll out a new version of Windows server into your organisation is what to deploy first, and the answer for me, at least, turned out to be ADFS 4.
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Saturday, March 9, 2013
We’ve been migrating from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012 at work. One very interesting part of SCCM 2012 for us has been the support for Mac OSX that was added in SCCM 2012 SP1. We have about 70 Mac clients, I guess, on top of about 1500 Windows clients, and those 70 clients need a dis-proportionate amount of time to manage, not because of any problems with Mac OSX as such, but rather due to the lack of real tools available to manage a large desktop roll-out.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
When Windows 8 was first released to techies, I made the effort to install it on my main computer at home and use it in order to try and get used to it. I’ve always done this; if you work in technology you need to be up to date with technology. This install lasted for a bit longer than a month before I gave up on it and rolled back to Windows 7.
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