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Virtualization changes everything
I think Cringley might have nailed it with this column: Apple's Plan to Provide the Best Darned Windows Experience Anywhere . Oddly, the week before Cringley said BootCamp was unimportant, but I think he's starting to put the pieces together. The pieces are Vista, Virtualization, and Security. First, security: Microsoft's recent admission that wipe out and start over is really best practice is nothing new to those of us from the Unix world: that's always been our advice when a system compromise is suspected or discovered.
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| Why you should let me sell you a new firewall | 2012-05-19 | 2012/05/20 TonyLawrence | |||
| - I know - your current firewall is working fine. Or so you think. You could be right about that, but let me go over a few reasons why you might want to consider changing that firewall now. - | |||||
| Kerio Mail Server Spam Filtering | 2012-05-19 | 2010/09/24 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Kerio Mail Server has several configuration options to protect against spam email. For maximum protection, you should investigate and set all appropriate items. - | |||||
| Android phone crashes email account | 2012-05-18 | 2012/05/18 Kanti | |||
| - A misbehaving Android phone caused a user to send duplicate messages - hundreds of them. We stopped that quickly by deleting her account on the phone (it's easy to recreate), but two weeks later her email stopped working - | |||||
| Kerio Workspace as a CRM | 2012-05-14 | ||||
| - Keeping track of customers can be difficult for a small business. Larger firms may use complex and custom coded CRM software; learn how Kerio Workspace can provide many of the same features. - | |||||
| Kerio Control Rip and Replace | 2012-05-10 | ||||
| - I tore out a perfectly good Astaro Firewall and replaced it with a Kerio Control box. The Astaro was only two years old and was working fine, but tearing it out made both me and my customer very happy. Read on to learn why. - | |||||
| Support is not an annoyance | 2012-05-07 | ||||
| - Kerio's recent support changes have caused some customer backlash. I am sypathetic to some of these complaints, but I also see the necessity of the change and think it actually can be good for everyone. - | |||||
| Troubleshooting Outlook KOC problems on new Windows 7 machines | 2012-05-04 | 2012/05/04 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Troubleshooting can lead us down strange paths. Join me as we watch new Windows 7 machines act up after joining a domain. - | |||||
| Kerio Control Hardware Appliance firewall | 2012-05-03 | ||||
| - I got to configure two new Kerio Control hardware appliances this week. Learn what's different about these boxes compared to the software versions. - | |||||
| Hosted vs. Cloud vs. In House Applications | 2012-05-02 | 2012/05/02 BigDumbDinosaur | |||
| - Is cloud computing a better choice than in house servers for applications like email? Are in-house servers and apps antiquated? What factors do you need to consider when making a choice? - | |||||
| Kerio Connect Administration API - setting user quotas | 2012-04-25 | ||||
| - The Kerio Administration API can help automate tasks that would otherwise be time consuming and perhaps error prone. Learn how to set user's quoatas with this simple example. - | |||||
| Kerio Connect 7.4 due this month | 2012-04-22 | ||||
| - The 7.4 release of Kerio connect adds new tablet and smart phone support, improved spam filtering and user assigned access control to specific protocols. - | |||||
| Your Kerio Connect mail server test drive | 2012-04-20 | ||||
| - Kerio makes it very easy to test drive all their products. Learn how to set up an internal test of Kerio Connect mailserver with this detailed guide. - | |||||
Hosted Kerio Mail, Hosted Kerio Workspace: Don't want to run your own hardware? Kerio Connect and Workspace Hosting is available. Contact me for more information or visit APLawrence at That! Collaborate | |||||
| Why does Google want Google Apps resellers? | 2012-04-23 | 2012/04/23 TonyLawrence | |||
| - I recently attended a Google Apps Reseller recruitment presentation. I don't think it's a good fit for me, but I'm cranky and hard to get along with, so I could be way off base. See what you think of my take away. - | |||||
| Kerio Operator basic configuration for SMB and SOHO business | 2012-04-19 | 2012/04/19 TonyLawrence | |||
| - VOIP has come a long way from what it used to be. Internet connectivity is higher speed and much more reliable, making VOIP a real alternative for business. Learn how Kerio Operator can make it even better! - | |||||
| Building contact lists from IMAP searches | 2012-04-10 | ||||
| - Did you ever think of data mining your emails? Your business emails are a rich source of information that can be used for compliance checking, building contact databases, spotting trends and so on. Use this simple code as inspiration for your own ideas! - | |||||
| Kerio Workspace - first look | 2012-04-23 | 2012/04/09 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Kerio Workspace is a Sharepoint alternative. This is file sharing and document creation made simple. It runs in your browser and users are allowed to create new content or obtain access to other users content. Learn how to access its main features. - | |||||
| A Kerio Firewall transplant causes mail problems | 2012-04-06 | 2012/04/06 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Moving a Kerio Control firewall to new hardware shouldn't be any trouble at all. In fact, it was not, but some red herrings led me to think that something had gone mysteriously wrong. - | |||||
| Understanding Kerio Control Firewall Licensing | 2012-05-19 | 2012/05/19 TonyLawrence | |||
| - How many user licenses will your Kerio Control firewall require? The answer isn't as simple as it was before, but the current licensing does offer more flexibility. - | |||||
| Implementing a second level Spam folder with Kerio Connect | 2012-03-29 | ||||
| - Spam is spam, but some spam is spammier than others. We can use a Perl script to sort out second level spam. - | |||||
| Troubleshooting a scanner with an email gateway | 2012-03-28 | 2012/03/28 NickBarron | |||
| - After an email conversion, the only problem was a scanner that could not send email. That should have been a simple fix, but we were led far astray. - | |||||
| Using Kerio public folders in place of mail groups | 2012-04-01 | 2012/04/01 Ralph | |||
| - While mail groups are one way to handle generic addreses like 'sales', Kerio's Public folders offers another method with more features. - | |||||
| Import Contacts to Kerio Webmail | 2012-03-25 | ||||
| - Importing contacts for use in Kerio Webmail is not difficult. Here are two ways to do that. - | |||||
| Where is the boing? (Mac scheduled startup) | 2012-04-23 | 2012/04/23 anonymous | |||
| - I first noticed the missing Mac startup chime a few weeks ago. It seemed very odd that if I rebooted, the chime did work - it was only the first boot of the day when it did not "boing". Starting up took too long also - something was wrong, but what? - | |||||
| Kerio Connect Webmail as an alternative to Outlook | 2012-03-21 | ||||
| - Kerio Connect Webmail certainly isn't for everyone, but many users will find it to be far more than just 'adequate'. It is actually a powerful and easy to use mail client worthy of consideration. - | |||||
| Synchronizing Kerio Connect mail folders for off-line use | 2012-03-20 | ||||
| - Kerio mail server is happy to be an IMAP server or be seen as an Exchange server (free connector needed for Outlook) but synchronization is entirely dependent on the client. - | |||||
| Kerio Connect vs. Microsoft Exchange: mail storage | 2012-03-19 | ||||
| - Microsoft and Kerio use very different methods to store mail files. Learn what that difference means to you. - | |||||
| Adding a new mail domain with Kerio Connect | 2012-03-24 | 2012/03/24 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Acquiring another company can create many complications and email is just one of them. Here's how to handle the email portion with Kerio Connect Mailserver. - | |||||
| iPad recovery mode problem caused by bad backup | 2012-03-12 | 2012/03/12 TonyLawrence | |||
| - When my iPad started crashing Thursday night, it looked like bad hardware. I was even more sure of that when I tried to recover from a backup and it crashed doing that. I took it to the Genius Bar and they agreed, but we all were wrong. - | |||||
| Misconfigured router causes open SMTP relay | 2012-03-10 | 2012/03/10 NickBarron | |||
| - The last thing you want is an active mailserver acting as an open relay. Learn how a misconfigured router caused that on an innocent Kerio server. - | |||||
| Simple outgoing email for SCO Unix (and Linux) | 2012-02-27 | 2012/02/27 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Configuring MMDF or Sendmail on SCO Unix was never fun and it only gets worse as fewer people care about any of it. Here is a simple fix for scripted outgoing email - | |||||
| OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion | 2012-02-21 | 2012/02/21 BrettLegree | |||
| - When will they quit these dumb cat names? Anyway, Apple, you did good in dropping the price of Lion, but you screwed up on the performance side - | |||||
| Email Archiving | 2012-02-17 | ||||
| - The legal necessity of email archiving has expanded in recent years. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires public companies to keep email archives for seven years and specific industries (health care, financial investments) may have other requirements. - | |||||
| It was a good run | 2012-04-25 | 2012/04/25 TonyLawrence | |||
| - It was a good run - expect far less activity here - | |||||
| SATA RDX backup cartridge report for BackupEDGE | 2011-11-23 | 2011/11/23 BillMohrhardt | |||
| - I have been testing an internal SATA RDX drive, made by Quantum, in an IBM x-series 226 server with dual 3.0 Ghz CPU's, 3 GB of RAM, and dual 73 GB SCSI drives configured as a simple RAID 1. The Operating System is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, Microlite BackupEDGE version 03.00.03 with the RDX cartridge configured as a file system partition. I modified the retention time to be only 3 days, as I was backing up to the same cartridge, and wanted to verify that the program would automatically delete the oldest archive to make room. When we have a cartridge for each workday, I will extend that back out to 2 weeks. - | |||||
| Capture and report (Bash Scripting) | 2011-11-18 | ||||
| - You've been asked to copy some jpg files to a USB disk overnight. That's easy enough - a cron job and a simple 'cp -a' will do that. But there is so much that could go wrong, isn't there? There might not be any files to copy or there might not be room on the USB disk. Somebody might have changed permissions on files or directories alreasdy in place, preventing overwrite with updated images. - | |||||
| Kerio Connect Archive Script | 2011-11-17 | ||||
| - This script for the Kerio Connect mailserver (7.3 and up) creates subfolders of INBOX and moves older email into these. Kerio's automatic indexing will fix these up overnight. - | |||||
| Kerio Connect Automatic Index Maintenance | 2011-11-22 | 2011/11/22 TonyLawrence | |||
| - The latest Kerio Connect Mailserver release includes both on demand and automatic reindexing of users mail folders. I decided to abuse that and see what happens - | |||||
| Mysterious Duplicate IP problem solved | 2011-11-14 | 2011/11/14 NickBarron | |||
| - I only needed to be run over by four or five cluetrains before realizing what was causing this 'IP address conflict' message on a Windows 2003 server. Follow along and see when you solve it. - | |||||
| Book Review - Michal Zalewski's 'The Tangled Web' | 2011-11-12 | 2011/11/12 TonyLawrence | |||
| - We will not have ventured very far into the Internet forest before we realize that our 'crack team' of web browsers is anything but. Most of them can't seem to tell a squirrel from a poisonous snake. When they do decide to point their weapons at something threatening, we had better duck ourselves, because their aim is atrociously bad. Suspicious looking miscreants appear at the edges of our trail and beckon us to follow them into the dark woods; our guides lay down their weapons and, with beaming grins, trot off never to be seen again! - | |||||
| Targeting customer interests with multiple Google Plus Pages | 2011-11-09 | ||||
| - Although mostly overlooked in the general excitement about Google Plusbusiness pages, it's important to realize that you are not limited to just one page for your business. If your business sells multiple products or services, you may very well want to create pages for each part. - | |||||
| Google Plus Business pages are open now | 2011-11-08 | ||||
| - Google-Plus now allows business pages. You seem to need a Google Plus account to create your pages, but of course you don't need to post anything at all on that account. You can create as many individual pages as you need. I immediately created pages for several aspects of my business. - | |||||
| I've given up on Panda | 2011-12-12 | 2011/12/12 TonyLawrence | |||
| - I've given up on trying to fix the traffic and earnings plunge this site has suffered since Google started its series of "Panda" updates. I feel a bit sad about that. I hate giving up - it's just against my nature. I especially hate giving up when I'm still not entirely sure that there is not still some way to claw back to days of old. - | |||||
| Local printing in Synchronics | 2012-03-06 | 2012/03/06 anonymous | |||
| - I know exactly what he has - an old SCO Unix system with a Digiboard multiport serial board, green screen Wyse terminals and Okidata printers with serial cards. I can handle all of that. - | |||||
| Exploring Apple Document versions | 2011-11-04 | ||||
| - When I made the switch, I of course had files under the old account. Some were things I knew I'd need immediately, so I copied them to the new account and changed permissions. Others were things I might need, but then again I might not. What to do about those? - | |||||
| Kerio Connect Mailserver version 7.3 | 2011-11-03 | ||||
| - Kerio Connect Mailserver version 7.3 is scheduled for release in early November 2011 and adds important features, including a few that I suggested and lobbied for earlier. - | |||||
| Chrome Mouse Gestures in OS X Lion and the Ghost Arrow | 2011-11-01 | ||||
| - One of the things that you can do is swipe left or right (one finger swipe) to move between pages you have visited in Safari. Even if you'd never read about gestures, you'd be likely to figure that one out because Safari animates the acyion and begins to slide the other page in as you start the swipe. As it's easy enough to accidentally start a small swipe, you'll notice this. - | |||||
| Google Authorship Links | 2011-10-29 | ||||
| - If you are an author here, we can now help Google know that. Google recently announced that they can display information about authors in their search results. You may not have seen or noticed these yet because not a lot of people have created the needed links that let Google know who you are. Here's how to link your content here. - | |||||
| Ucertify Review | 2011-09-20 | ||||
| - Whether certifications have any value is an entirely different question. I would suggest that you NOT bother with certification unless you are planning to apply for a specific job that requires it or if you are just starting out and have no experience to brag about. Many people like myself look upon certifications as having little real value - it's 'book knowledge' that doesn't necessarily translate into real skills. However, some employment opportunities may require these as an indication that you have at least basic knowledge. So let's just leave that argument for another day. The rest of this article assumes that certification has value for you. - | |||||
| Auto Edge archive removal script | 2011-09-16 | ||||
| - The way I wanted Edge to work, was just like the days when we backed up to Tape. We would pull Master backups each night, label the tapes M-F, and take a SAT tape off-site for an extra layer of protection. When Monday rolled around, the new backup would replace the old Monday backup, rinse, lather, repeat. This changed when we upgraded to Edge 3.x, and started using the NAS. Once we had multiple servers with multiple jobs backing up to the same resource, and not having enough free space on the NAS because backups were piling up, I had to resort to manually deleting things (through edgemenu) on the NAS to free up space. This got old rather quickly, as I had to look down the long list of backup jobs, and determine which ones could be deleted. If I missed one day, the NAS would fill up, and backups would fail. - | |||||
| Do you hate your computer? | 2011-09-15 | 2011/09/15 BigDumbDInosaur | |||
| - I knew someone who became so frustrated with a computer printer that he threw it down on the floor and jumped up and down on it until it was smashed to pieces. That's a bit extreme (and damaging to your bank account), but technology can make us feel like that, can't it? - | |||||
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