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I spent a good chunk of this afternoon dealing with Citrix Application Isolation Environments. After getting out of my own way for a short period of time I finally got to an error I could do something with. If you’re ever coming across Windows Installer Service not being accessible errors this Citrix Knowledge Center article […]

I’ve changed the theme of BITW. I’ve thought for a long time that the theme I was using before looked a little bush league. The biggest reason was that I hated the fact that the background of a post wasn’t completely white and it made it more difficult to read. If you […]

This afternoon we had a lively discussion on hard drive encryption passwords. Its always fun to get into an occasional animated discussion about things like that. I blasted SP’s password idea, TB blasted my idea, so on and so forth. In the end though I think (maybe hope is a better word!) […]

I’m your fool.
Sometimes I think I am a fool for choosing this career. Working in a pet store has got to be less stressful. I was just sitting here tonight minding my own, enjoying a Foo Fighters Skin and Bones acoustic concert on HDnet. I wasn’t looking for trouble. Its 10 […]

Today started well enough. We had two people at a Microsoft Server 2008/SQL 2008/Some Developer Crap 2008 launch event and it was setting up for a nice quiet day with a short staff. Then about 9 o’clock the wheels fell off. I’ve posted a couple of times, here and here, about this […]

I spent a good part of this afternoon and this evening getting MRTG running in our environment to monitor all of our switchport bandwidth. Its not a real exciting thing to do but it does have some value. The obvious value is more insight into our traffic patterns that will help troubleshoot network […]

Another day, another event. Life is rough for this guy! That actually sounds a little arrogant. This afternoon was an event hosted by SKT/Cisco/EMC to go along with March Madness. I hope your bracket is looking better than mine. A buddy once said to me “when you walk along the […]

I attended the Kansas City Enterprise Security Solutions Summit today. Overall it was a great event. I spent the morning in vendor specific breakout sessions and the afternoon was reserved for the Keynote speaker. The three breakout sessions I sat in on were: “Securing and Managing Privileged Account Passwords” by Cyber-Ark, […]

Last week we put a secure FTP server in a DMZ. Its not a “honeypot” FTP server as it does have access control by IP enabled on it. Today I thought it would be entertaining to review the logs from the weekend to see what kind of shananigans went on with it over […]

This has been a long, crazy week. Wednesday night we realized there was some additional fallout from the disk problem we had Sunday night with our Exchange server. The VMware ESX rebuild that formatted the raw device mappings also deleted the partition tables off of three vmfs volumes on one of our SANs. […]