The second Tuesday of the month is always busy with updates from many operating system and software vendors, except February 2017 when Microsoft delayed updates until March. Microsoft Today's updates included Microsoft's usual updates for May 2017: Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge Microsoft Windows Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps … [Read more...]
Dell begins releasing BIOS updates to address Intel AMT Security Advisory
Dell has started releasing BIOS updates to computers affected by the disclosed vulnerability in the Intel AMT framework. Intel's Active Management Technology, Intel Standard Manageability, and Intel Small Business Technology all have the vulnerability and Dell is working to mitigate the problem with BIOS firmware updates. Dell issued a client statement on the topic (PDF). … [Read more...]
No love from Microsoft today as Patch Tuesday delayed
Despite being the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft has delayed the security bulletins scheduled for today. From the Microsoft Security Response Center, they share that a last minute issue is going to delay this month's updates: This month, we discovered a last minute issue that could impact some customers and was not resolved in time for our planned updates … [Read more...]
Free book: Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
Site reliability engineering is treating your operations/production environment like a software problem. Monitoring performance and other metrics are key. It's what makes an outage of Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, and other Google products so rare. You can learn from the folks at Google with a free O'Reilly book Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production … [Read more...]
Setup your DFS namespace with DNS for compatibility in a mixed environment
I recently created a DFS namespace for tying multiple file servers into the same path structure with the hope that this would make it easier for people to remember where to find files and to give flexibility on the back-end to change out servers or spread out files across multiple servers as needed. Once in place, I tested accessibility from Windows and Mac which worked fine. … [Read more...]