Sometimes your clients need to get an overview of who’s getting all the mails for the various distribution groups they’ve had you create. Sometimes they forget who’s been added or removed. I use this script to give them an up-to-date view of where the mail is going.
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Mass changing of DSNs
DSN changes are ubiquitous in any most systems that need to connect directly to a database. Although you can prevent them by aliasing your DB to a CNAME and doing the modification globally, or adding an additional IP address, that’s something you learn “for the next time”. Here’s my script on how to do this easily.
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Exchange Organization Address Extraction
This is a VBS script for Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 2003 to list all the non-local e-mail addresses in AD. It’s handy if you have a 3rd part spam filter and need to get a list of addresses to let through:
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.htpasswd Change Script
On a recent project the client needed a password change script for an htpasswd file, but nothing really fit the bill. I grabbed one by David A. Horner , and modified it to bit a bit more versatile.
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Bind 9.x and DNS
While some people may have some concerns about it, BIND is the de-facto standard for Internet DNS serving. Although it’s config files may look confusing at first, a little experience shows you that it is actually complex, and there’s nothing you can do about it. However, most people won’t have to deal with anything that hard to use. So here’s a little article on a quick and dirty start to Bind.
Mistakes II: Backup Hell
Everyone pays lip service to backups, but I find that not too many people are actually doing them, and most of the ones that are do it poorly. Sounds like the high school locker room, actually, but I digress. The issue is simple, too:
We don’t care about backups; we care about restores.
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Network Monitoring – $149/mo
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To protect your data and assets, Enfold IT can monitor the status and operational efficiency of your firewalls, your backup tools and data storage assets 24 X 7. With immediate alerting, we are equipped to respond rapidly to eliminate or mitigate the impact of security threats and malicious attacks.
Using extensive automated patching capabilities for Microsoft systems and software based on Windows Software Update Services (WSUS), we can ensure customer assets and data are protected with immediate patching direct from Microsoft.
With all of these protective measures in place, we can produce a range of relevant reports and detailed documentation about your hardware and software inventories and the security processes that you have implemented, so that you can supply accurate evidence of your compliance to security regulations as required and provide assurance to your customers.
- Rapid notification of problems from servers, routers, and almost any other network-available device
- Obtain hardware and software inventories on a daily basis
- Automate repetitive tasks and alert if they fail to run
- Reports of problems and system availability to track effectiveness
- Automatic remediation of common issues
- Integrated ticketing system
We are currently offering a complete monitoring solution that includes remote and on-site assets, reporting, alerting, and ticketing for up to 250 devices for $149/mo. Contact Us to hear more, or to sign up.
Mistakes I: Using Home Computer Software on Business Machines
We’ve all done it…we grab a copy of Norton Antivirus™ to install on our brand-spanking new office machine thinking this will keep me safe…Resist this urge, here’s why. Continue reading “Mistakes I: Using Home Computer Software on Business Machines”