Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is one of Microsoft's solution accelerators. These products are available for free and are supported by Microsoft. The various solution accelerators cover a number of different aspects to managing Microsoft technologies. The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is the tool that I am most familiar with. Paired with Windows Deployment Services on a Windows … [Read more...]
VisiPics – Dedupe Your Photo Collection
While storage has gotten cheaper and larger, in some sense it only makes keeping the increased number of files organized more difficult. Without the need to decide what to throw away, it's easier to just buy higher capacity storage. I know that has certainly become the way for some of my files. They have been migrated from multiple computers, backed up during multiple OS … [Read more...]
Spideroak acting weird? Head to the command line
When Dropbox changed their Terms of Service, I looked into other backup/sync clients and found Spideroak. I like it. It's a slightly more complicated user interface than Dropbox but it offers a lot more flexibility and better security. I use it for backing up my data and particularly, synchronizing my KeePass password database across multiple computers. The other day I tried … [Read more...]
Adobe Flash Player 11.2 updates include a silent updater
Adobe Flash Player just updated earlier this month with an out-of-band patch but a new update today makes 11.2.202.228 available. On the older branch, Flash Player updated to 10.3.183.18. With the 10.3 update, Adobe is dropping support for Internet Explorer 6. Adobe Flash Player 11.2 also includes a new background updater for Adobe Flash Player, modeled after the way Flash … [Read more...]
Out-of-band update available for Adobe Flash Player
The Google Security team alerted Adobe to two vulnerabilities in the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe has issued a security bulletin and priority 2 update. A priority 2 update means... This update resolves vulnerabilities in a product that has historically been at elevated risk. There are currently no known exploits. Based on previous experience, we do not anticipate exploits are … [Read more...]