One of the low hanging fruits of Green IT recommendations is to replace the 'printer at each desk' model with the 'fewer, higher-capacity printers shared amongst an office' model. In my office, we've been trying to follow this recommendation in order to save electricity, reduce maintenance, and provide printers with increased capabilities to my users. Unfortunately, it's not … [Read more...]
RSoP and GPResult – Must-Know Tools When Using Group Policy
RSoP, Resultant Set of Policy, and GPResult are two of those tools you absolutely have to know about if you're using Group Policy in your environment or you'll wish you had known about it sooner. Through the Group Policy Management Console you can see all the settings that a specific GPO will apply to machines and users in that OU but because the Active Directory is … [Read more...]
McAfee Nukes Windows XP Computers World-Wide
McAfee's definitions for today, 5958 dated April 21st, has a false positive that is detrimentally affecting computers around the world. The definitions are detecting C:WindowsSystem32svchost.exe as W32/Wecorl.a virus. Svchost.exe, as you may be aware is a critical Windows files that is required for network/Internet communication to work. More info as the story breaks and I … [Read more...]
Java 6 Update 20 Released Today
To the surprise of System Administrators everywhere, Sun released a Java update today. Arriving only a week after Java 6 Update 19 was released, the update comes as a surprise to address an exploit found in Java by Tavis Ormandy, a researcher at Google. Apparently Ormandy managed to force Sun's hand as they had replied to his responsible disclosure of the exploit saying that … [Read more...]
Using Group Policy to Deploy Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2
As I reported earlier, the patches for Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 and Adobe Reader 9.3.2 (Note: There is no such thing as Adobe Acrobat Reader.) are now available for download. When Adobe Reader 9.3.1 came out I wrote an article GPO Deploying Adobe Reader 9.3.1 that documented the process to create an Administration Install Point that allows us to deploy the (then) latest Adobe … [Read more...]