After a recent OWA upgrade some of my users were experiencing problems connecting via RPC/HTTPS. When I’ve seen this before, I noticed it is often the result of a certificate problem. One way to troubleshoot this is by using the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer. This is an official Microsoft site which you can use to [...]
Active Directory
Terminated User’s AD Account Disabled But User Can Still Send Email via Outlook
If you have been doing systems administration for any length of time, you have probably dealt with the disgruntled employee “termination” situation. Typically, you, your boss, or the Help Desk gets a call from HR (probably outside of normal account termination/offboarding processes), requesting all access for a specific account to be disabled immediately. Sometimes, the [...]
Social Media
Businesses Should Embrace, Not Ban Social Media
Are we (IT) cavemen or are our users/employees children to be coddled? I recently experienced a business that decided Social Media should be banned from the workplace, and blocked on their outgoing content filters. The basis for this decision was due to perceived “productivity” problems and security concerns. Frankly, I simply find this position to [...]
iPhone
Apple: Fix the iPhone 4′s Antenna Problem!
Apple has got a potential 1.5 Billion dollar fiasco on their hands. Not only do they have an admitted software problem with the new iPhone 4, but they also have an un-admitted (as of 7/14/2010) hardware problem with the antenna. According to Eric Zeman at Information Week: The "death grip" problem is unfortunately real [...]
Science Geek
Hubble is Simply… Cool!
How’s that for geeky! It seems like the Hubble Space Telescope is underappreciated among the general population of non-astronomer geeks, like myself. So I’m posting this nearly 15 year old picture just for the heck of it, and perhaps Hubble will gain a fan or two before it falls from the sky or functionally replaced [...]