At the moment about 80% – 90% of the e-mail our organization receives is probably SPAM. This is a huge pain for all of us here who don’t have anti-spam loaded on our systems. Because we are running a Terminal Server environment we are not…
Set-up Support for VPN Clients in Microsoft ISA Server 2004
We are currently in the middle of migrating our network from a Windows 2000 domain to a new Windows 2003 domain. In the process we have upgraded from Microsoft ISA Server 2000 to Microsoft ISA Server 2004. Microsoft ISA Server 2004 is quite different in…
Migrate/Upgrade to a New Hard Drive
Last night the hard drive in my wifes computer started to make that “click, click, click” sound that can only mean one thing – imminent head failure on the drive. Since the hard drive was only an 8GB hard drive it also offered a chance…
Photo Editing on Terminal Server
Photo and image editing in a terminal server environment has always been a challenge. Most photo editing software out there will not run on a terminal server because it requires multiple instances of the software to be open, and usually requires a higher colour level…
FreeNAS for Network Storage
While we were looking for a network storage solution for our organization we found quite a few open-source and proprietary options available. One of the more interesting open-source solutions was FreeNAS. FreeNAS is very well featured, quite well developed and completely free. Below is a…
GPS Killer
I am always on the lookout for applications that are actually useful for mobile phones. There are a lot of mobile apps out there but few that are actually something that the average person would use. Now a free mapping tool – now that is…