Microsoft

I understand the need for object permissions. I really do. But man can they be a pain. Apparently at some point in the recent past, I managed to assign Everyone (a special Microsoft group, meaning, well, everyone) deny permission to an access list in Exchange. To make it…

Recently I encountered the Narrator trojan for the first time. This baby was really challenging to my nerves, as it used some techniques that I hadn't seen before. All the usual tricks of showing up in the Windows registry, or hiding out in the start menu were there,…

I've been setting up three new domains on an Exchange 2003 server for a few days. It really isn't that difficult, but it's taken me a bit to get used to working with 2003. It's a lot different (a lot more integrated) than previously. Of course, 2000 versions…

I had some problems getting ActiveSync to work with my new phone, the Audiovox SMT 5600. Then I had problems getting it to work securely. I'm happy to say that I've finally managed to get it all working. My first problem was that I couldn't get a connection…

So I've been trying to get my new Audiovox SMT 5600 working with ActiveSync. Enabling a synchronization with the desktop was super easy. Really. Getting it to work with Exchange has been less so. Since he has the same phone, I asked Scoble for some insight. Despite an…

I recently downloaded iTunes and have been giving it a test run to see how well it works. All in all, I have to say that I'm impressed. I rarely buy music these days, but when I've wanted something, I just jump over to the ITMS and pick…

After two weeks or so, I'm still using Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser. I haven't yet completely dumped MSIE, but I have only fired it up two or three times thus far. Primarily to check and see if the problems I was having in Firefox were browser-related…

It was bound to happen. Microsoft's Internet Explorer finally just broke. Nothing fancy, no bells, whistles or fireworks. It just died. For some unknown reason, cookies are no longer working. There are a handful that are set, and more are accepted because they keep piling up. But the…