A well designed rack environment would include cold aisles (in front of the equipment with the AC vents) and hot aisles (behind the equipment with the air returns). Then the racks would have no gaps between the rack mounted equipment. If there are gaps between the equipment, then spacers are added to block air flow.
Microsoft Releases Out of Band Security Update 12/29/11
https://bit.ly/vFAx9U
Shadow Copy issue
https://tiny.cc/hneje
Windows 7 Gadget – Outlook 2010
https://bit.ly/uQAugh
What IT should know about AC power
https://bit.ly/ua3IOU
Event ID 5719 and event ID 1129 may be logged when a non-Microsoft DHCP Relay Agent is used
“Windows 7 clients experience a three to five second delay in obtaining an IP address through Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) at restart. This behavior occurs when the clients are DHCP-enabled and domain-joined. This results in Netlogon event ID 5719 and Group Policy event ID 1129. You may experience this issue if the Windows 7 […]
Fake antivirus attacks declining, but still a threat
https://bit.ly/vLqnjY
Security updates released for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows (APSB11-30)
https://adobe.ly/u5CcO2
Microsoft will push automatic updates to Internet Explorer, starting January 2012
Microsoft has decided the time has come that everyone has to at least be at Internet Explorer 8 for all servers and workstations capable of being at Internet Explorer 8. For those capable of being at Internet Explorer 9, they will also give you Internet Explorer 9. If you have chosen to block Internet […]
DNS Islanding
DNS Islanding – I have been reading a series of technical threads on Microsoft DNS best practices. While we do follow DNS best practices for clients with DHCP, there is some different thinking for Microsoft best practices for DNS on DCs.