July 30, 2010

Recovering a single Domain Controller from a USN Rollback

Some time ago I wrote about my experience recovering a customer’s Active Directory from a USN Rollback condition that had been caused by some virtualisation work.  There has been some discussion in the comments in that post about what to do when you have a single domain controller that thinks it is in a USN [...]

The most annoying feature of Windows Vista

Whinging about UAC is for wimps, this is a real Windows Vista annoyance. 1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate through the folder tree in the left pane (eg, navigate to C:\Temp) 2. Drag and select one or more files or folders in the right pane that you would like to delete 3. Hit delete Windows [...]

Security Spin Cycles

Jeff Jones posted a blog entry to celebrate Red Hat fixing their 1000th unique security vulnerability.  He also draws attention to a Red Hat post on their “Truth Happens” blog back in August, which itself quotes a post on Lxer.com. Jeff posts quarterly statistics on his blog that show how many vulnerabilities have been patched for various [...]