At this point in time, Your organization most likely uses its website to deliver key business data to your customers. This could include the delivery of product marketing information, contact information, or product support documentation. Your product may be your website if you deliver your application in a SaaS or cloud based distribution model. As [...]
“What do I do about the vulnerable open source components installed in my commercial products?” I have been asked that question many times, and I wish the reply I had to deliver was one with a better message. Unfortunately we often find vulnerable components embedded in commercial products. Vulnerabilities that can lead to the compromise [...]
I recently had a client ask if additional categories could be added to the choice list in the SharePoint 2010 Calendar Web Part. These categories are in the pick list when you create a new calendar item from the SharePoint interface. This is how to change the categories: 1. Go to the calendar web part [...]
The documentation for SharePoint 2010 is gradually being filled in, but one important piece seems to be missing: the comparison of the feature sets for the Server and Foundation Editions. Some organizations are deploying their first SharePoint farm with the 2010 Beta and need this edition information to choose the version to deploy. Looking at [...]
Year Number of 802.11 packets required to crack WEP 2001 – 2004 5-10 million (FMS attack) 2004 – 2007 500k (unique IVs) on average for 128-bit WEP (Korek attack) 2007 – 2008 40k (ARP packets) using the PTW attack 2008 – Present 25k (replayed packets) using the ARP replay and/or chopchop replay, with combined PTW+Korek [...]
Troubleshooting steps and resolution to error encountered when upgrading MOSS 2007 from RTM to Service Pack 1. Configuration of SharePoint Products and Technologies failed. The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070003). Pre-Upgrade [SPSite Url...] failed.
Let me start by saying this: I am not a fan of CoyotePoint load balancers. My support experiences so far have all been atrocious. The system architecture is a cheap imitation of F5′s BigIP architecture from a decade ago which constantly limits me. I’m convinced that people only buy these things because they’re cheap. I’ve [...]
I recently had the pleasure of helping out with a WordPress blog which had gone supernova. Within hours of being linked to from several major news sites, the server couldn’t stay up for 10 minutes without something terrible happening. Unfortunately, WordPress isn’t setup for high performance operation out of the box. Each page request is [...]
Irving Popovetsky explains how to change the local Administrator account on all machines in a Windows Domain to a unique, strong password using VBscript scripting.
Research from Netapp, Google and CMU has shown that accepted ideas about hard drives and enterprise storage are wrong.