To keep your finger on the pulse of technology and security in higher education's institute check out the Educational Security Incidents site. ESI keeps you in touch with security incidents at universities and colleges around the nation and helps you know what you might need to rebuff your defenses and user education about. All in all, it's a lot of interesting reports about … [Read more...]
View an Object’s Hierarchy in Active Directory
By default when searching the Active Directory, you can find an object easily but the heirarchy is not shown. You can very easily enable this so that you can locate objects and see in which Organization Unit (OU) they exist. With the Active Directory snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console open, go to View and click on Advanced Features so that there is a check mark to … [Read more...]
Make Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat use “Print as Image” setting by default
For certain printers, certain PDF documents, and certain print setups, using the "Print as Image" setting in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader is the only way to reliably get a print job to succeed. To get to this setting, you would go File -> 1. Print -> 2. Advanced (button) -> 3. Print as Image (checkbox) -> 4. Ok -> 5. Ok (PDF prints). This is a rather buried … [Read more...]
Free Online Collaboration and Screen Sharing Systems
With the rise of remote learning, increasing availability of broadband, and high gas prices, virtual meetings are gaining popularity. If you can save a trip to the office, you save money. If you can reach millions more people now because you're tied to a virtual space instead of a physical one, you increase your impact. These tools pretty much provide the means and you provide … [Read more...]
AppDeploy.com – A Community for Software Deployment
AppDeploy.com is a website that could really serve as a community for System Administrators. Specializing in application deployment (using .MSI, Group Policy, and any of a host of tools), AppDeploy.com offers two knowledge bases: Software KB and Package KB. Software KB contains command line options for a lot of software out there as well as reviews and other tips and tricks. … [Read more...]