Psychology Technology

I came across this article at Tech Republic and am impressed.  I will be implementing this shortly in a network and follow-up with my findings.

 

 

The ability to restrict not just mp3s, but perhaps make it so only certain types of file can be saved in certain locations is what I am really after.

Hmm this could be an interesting way to mitigate MS saturation in to a network.  The downside is that the legal use of it still requires an MS OS license.

 

Today while rearranging some IIS websites I came across a particularly frustrating challenge.

 

The work that was carried out involved adding an additional IP (and NIC) to our web server.  Host headers were not an option because the sites use SSL.  After applying all the necessary NIC and firewall settings, the pre-existing website, when assigned to this new IP address, would not start.  It came back with the message stating that there was a potential conflict using the same ports.

 

Interestingly, I was able to create a new site which would start.  I created this site with the ip from the setup wizard.  So what seems to have happened here is the metabase did not get updated appropriately for the pre-existing site.  rather than utilise a tool such as httpconfig in this situation, it was far quicker to simply create the new site.  If the websites were many, or were part of a cluster, then using the httpconfig windows support tool would have almost been needed.

A network I support has a number of Firefox users.  Recently after strengthening their GP settings to enhance security, Firefox users started to experience issues logging in to IIS servers that use intregrated authentication.  This is because by default Digest Authentication is used by FireFox.  In order to enable NTLM authentication in Firefox, I used the information in this link:  http://www.cauldwell.net/patrick/blog/PermaLink,guid,c7f1e799-c4ae-4758-9de7-5c3e7a16f3da.aspx

 

Basically, network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris setting in FireFox needs to have the servers listed for which NTLM authentication will be required.

 

If Proxies are required, this setting will be of use:  network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-proxies

 

For those wanting a more original source of information, please see the mozilla knowledge base:  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

On of the nice things I have found useful with the powershell, is the resiliency it provides over a command prompt.

 

A while ago I was copying some directory structures that have some archaic deny permissions set here and there.  In a scramble (You can tell this environment is organized, can’t you?) to copy the folder structure and files, I did something like:

 

xcopy c:\FolderParent\* e:\NewFolder\ /E

 

Unfortuneately, at the first access-denied problem, the copy process gets aborted.  Nor does any information get displayed about where the copy stopped.

 

The Powershell allows you to do something like:

 

copy-item c:\FolderParent\ e:\NewFolder\ -recurse

 

This will output any errors in red (by default) but continue on copying the rest of the data (which is listed by default).  You can also tack on the -exclude command to leave out files AND folders that have the specified string (like *.txt).

 

Now if I take the time, I should be able to doctor up a nice master script that will output a complete log, and an estimated time to copy x GBs !