by wwarren | Jun 5, 2010 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Windows
I logged into a client’s machine today and saw this one sharepoint file was over 7 gigs in size. I am thinking this is one reason sharepoint has been pokey as of late. Some googling showed me that by default MS basically has the database in debug(which means...
by wwarren | Jan 19, 2010 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Computer Security Research – McAfee Labs Blog. This is an expansion of the most recent IE exploit. Now comes the analysis. Allowing a system level file for windows(in this case a dll) be executable without any kind of security context is a really bad idea. ...
by wwarren | Jan 15, 2010 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
This was an exploit form back in ie6. It is present in all version up to 8. mshtml.dll once again has a major issue that allows remote sites to take over your machine. If you are running ie6, ie7, or ie8 you are vulnerable. HOWEVER if you have DEP turned on for ie...
by wwarren | Nov 30, 2009 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Microsoft looking into Windows ‘black screen of death’ problem. I have not run into this with any of my clients. Will keep a lookout though and will update this if things change. *UPDATE* The black screens are caused by the machines already being...
by wwarren | Nov 12, 2009 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Windows, Windows 7
Laurent Gaffié blog: Windows 7 / Server 2008R2 Remote Kernel Crash. notice this is only in the two major operating systems that use the new smb protocol by Microsoft? Vista isn’t mentioned but i bet this will kill Vista as well.
by wwarren | Oct 14, 2009 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Windows
A user on the smallbizserver.net forums had an sbs server crash and had to restore it. Instead of reinstalling then manually installing(like i did in an earlier post) he leveraged the VHD’s to restore directly form the backups(something sbs seems to have a hard...
