Many technology hardware and software vendors take a very hard-line on support contracts. No support or maintenance contracts means no support. Some vendors will sell you “per incident” support. Some won’t. With software vendors you also get into the issue of software upgrades being tied to software maintenance.
If You Have Older Versions Of Symantec Backup Exec, Please Read This Important Announcement
DNS Server service does not resolve some external DNS names after it works for a while in Windows Server 2008 R2
https://bit.ly/tQCRTO
Data Center Rack Design Best Practice
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