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If you haven’t started migrating your Windows XP installations to Windows 7, you are running out of time…

Peering is the physical interconnection of separate networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. Immediately after Hurricane Sandy, we noticed massive packet loss between Verizon and Comcast. The most obvious example is loss of VPN and Remote Desktop connectivity between Verizon and Comcast sites. […]

This morning I awoke to my computer complaining that it couldn’t find a bootable volume. Evidently it had rebooted itself. Oh no! Dusted out the case interior and booted right up. About an hour later, same thing, restarted itself then no bootable volume. I didn’t see it happen and there […]

In an earlier post, we discussed a problem that affected our Outlook 2010 clients that connect to an Exchange 2007 server running on SBS 2008. After KB2553248 was installed on domain workstations, Outlook upon prompted for a smart card on Windows 7, and a displayed password dialog box on Windows […]

Want to know how strong your password is?  Steve Gibson’s Interactive Brute Force Password Search Space Calculator shows how dramatically the time-to-crack lengthens with every additional character in your password, especially if one of them is a symbol rather than a letter or number. Worst-case scenario with almost unlimited computing […]

We’re tracking a problem with Outlook 2010 clients in a domain environment receiving a pop-up dialog “Insert a smart card” when launching Outlook.  It also reoccurs while Outlook is open.  Mail flow is not affected.  Looks like it’s related to the recent Microsoft Update KB2553248 released yesterday, April 10, 2012. […]