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MS14-066 – Critical – Vulnerability in Schannel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (KB 2992611)

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Microsoft has published a critical update to the Schannel component in all versions of Windows. Reports are suggesting this vulnerability is on the same scale as Heartbleed and Shellshock vulnerabilities that effected open-source platforms earlier this year. This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft Secure Channel (Schannel) security package in Windows. The vulnerability […]

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BYOD: It’s not as scary as some make it seem

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As many schools and business look to deploy a BYOD solution hoping to answer their end-device management problems, most will come across white-papers and marketing literature that attempts to convince decision makers of the challenges BYOD presents and potential business risks that are created as a result of BYOD programs. Don’t get me wrong, BYOD can create business risk

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Windows 10 Technical Preview Announcement

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Yesterday Microsoft gave us a first look at a very early Technical Preview of the next version of Windows. So much speculation has been floating around the web on what is coming next, many thought the name was going to be Windows 9, and others speculated on UI changes. One thing is for sure, Joe and his

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Big Data is tomorrows treasure chest for cyber criminals

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The last decade has seen the growth of cloud computing. Software and services delivered via the internet ‘the cloud’ has become the default and we now consume and post data to cloud services in some form or another every time we switch on our devices. The proliferation of mobile apps has certainly contributed to the

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How BYOD will keep a 1-to-1 computer program viable in the Education sector

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The bring-your-own-device era has begun and demand is growing within I.T departments globally from requests made by end-users to connect up their devices. For sometime now it has been a common place for enterprises to have a BYOD policy among executives, allowing them to be highly mobile and flexible. BYOD has turned from concept to reality for many organisations as

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Windows 8 Metro Interface Start Screen

How to manage Windows 8 User Profiles when a user moves between Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers

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This article might help clear up any confusion with challenges the new Windows 8 User Profile format presents with regards to backwards-compatibility issues when supporting users who still have a Windows 7-based system and now have a new Windows 8-based device simultaneously. Obviously due to the new Windows 8 profile format, this will produce headaches for System Administrators who may

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WSUS Update to enable support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Windows Update management

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This is a quick post, if you’re looking for the update issued to enable Windows Update support on the latest versions of Microsoft operating systems on your existing WSUS 3.0 SP2 servers, then this is it. An update for Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 is available (KB2734608) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2734608 I needed the above update to patch an SBS

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SharePoint 2010 Server: Security Token Service stops working after installing KB 2756920

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Last week a SharePoint 2010 Server farm I manage stopped working, I could browse the Central Administration site collection but none of the other site collections would load. All of them would trigger a generic SharePoint error dialog and not let you go any further. Essentially the farm was broken, looking into the problem I found that the Security Token

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SharePoint 2013 Pre-Requisites Configuration Error on Windows Server 2012

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This morning I came across a small problem when running the pre-requisites tool for configuring a new SharePoint 2013 farm, specifically when the tool was attempting to install “Application Server and IIS Web Server roles” it would fail with no detail as to why? Not being documented all that well on TechNet I wasted some time trying to figure out

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Storage Spaces: Virtualising storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency

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This post is a follow on from the last where I outlined my top 10 likes for the new Windows Server 2012 operating system; in that post I somehow forgot to mention the Storage Spaces feature – which in my opinion is a real step forward and should be well received by consumers and storage administrators. Storage

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