Hallmark Sound Card Yields CMOS Battery!
Feeling proud of myself today in a McGiver-ish kind of way ;). You know those semi-fun, semi-annoying Hallmark birthday cards with sound? The ones that make you wonder whether it's …
Ping Request Could Not Find Host
Occasionally on my Windows XP Pro SP3 machine, Outlook 2007 SP2 will tell me that it has had an error receiving POP mail from my SBS 2003 server, which resides …
Creating Passwords and a Cracking Test
Years ago, I learned to follow a simple procedure for creating secure passwords: 1. Think of a sentence with at least eight words. Include capital and lowercase letters, numbers, and …
Airport Out of Virtual Memory
Racing through the Colorado Springs (COS) airport yesterday, I just had to stop and snap this picture of the Arrivals screen: Sure enough, a common Windows error: Fortunately I …
Connecting Windows 7 to SBS 2003
I recently installed Windows 7 Enterprise (32-bit RTM) on a laptop that had previously run Vista. While I'm liking Windows 7 much better than Vista, it was quite a challenge …
Patching Adobe Reader
I never used to worry too much about keeping Adobe Reader up to date. Then a couple months ago, I got my first-ever computer virus infection, delivered courtesy of a …
Deploy Microsoft Zero-Day Patch with a Zenith Job
Yesterday, Microsoft released this security advisory: Vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX control could allow remote code execution That article includes a “Fix it” link that users can click on to …
Excluding HTTP Sites from NOD32 Version 3.0
I’m running NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition version 3.0.684.0. Zenith Infotech monitoring sometimes downloads files that trip NOD32’s HTTP filter (e.g. SpyBot and BitDefender executables). Zenith recommends excluding “update.itsupport247.net” from antivirus …
Deploy Software with a Custom Zenith Job
The Zenith Infotech SAAZ platform includes a Job functionality that can be used to create custom software deployment jobs. This function is simpler, and thus less powerful, than A.S.E. scripting, …
Run CMD as LOCAL SYSTEM User
Zenith Infotech‘s SAAZ platform allow you to set up jobs to run on client machine, e.g. for installing software. The jobs run as user LOCAL SYSTEM. Deploying a SAAZ job …