sysadmin

Malware emails - doing it wrong.

I’m currently reading /r/sysadmin on reddit at the moment, specifically this post from someone ranting that a user complain that “malware spam e-mail” went to their mail client’s spam folder. While this is classed as a rant on the site and not intended as deep analysis of a problem, their entire comment on this was: What the hell? This is exactly what it should have done! I'm really not sure what to say to this, or to the responses that suggest telling the "

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Stormy weather for cloud providers and users?

So we’re a Mimecast customer and today they had a few problems with their email services in the UK going offline for a large part of the working day. No big deal as such, other than that they make big claims for their own availability and have been quite ready to point out the failings of others in the past - and the responsible people at those others are probably reacting to today’s events by pouring champagne down their throats as fast as they can get the bottles open… well maybe not at Google.

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The Problem with BYOD projects

I see lots of people talking about and asking about hardware being “prepared for BYOD” and/or “BYOD ready”. Most of the time they’re talking about Wireless Access Points(WAPs) or other similar items of infrastructure. In a lot of ways, as long as you stick to a reputable vendor, what make of WAP you buy is the least difficult and least interesting part of the project - you wouldn’t focus too heavily on what brand of switch your desktops were wired into as part of a project to give everyone access to a new corporate intranet site from the desktop - you’d spend more time checking that the site’s CMS system worked with your standard browser and thinking about what content users should be able to get to, and how they’d get to it.

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IT Science vs. IT Religion. Again

What we’re going to here is go back. Way back. A long time ago, I made a brief comment on Mr Angry’s blog article about project managment disasters where I suggested a reason for the difference between a high level management view of IT projects vs. a lower level IT “Engineer” view of those projects. Mr Angry spun my comment into an entire article and made quite a few good points about how people at different levels look at these kinds of projects.

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