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QOTD: Wind

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. – Jimmy Dean Safe travels to one of the most inspirational men in my life; see you in our next my dear cousin. 

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Set SharePoint Content Database in Read-Only Mode

This weekend I am working on a SharePoint 2010 to 2013 upgrade. One of the steps; the beginning steps I will do is set the databases I am upgrading into read only mode to prevent users or automated process from upgrading the database during the upgrade window. Now I could have taken the system offline […]

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Tech Short: CryptoLocker

CryptoLocker is a type of “ransomware” that encrypts the data on an infected computer so that it can’t be read and then demands payment to decrypt it. A CryptoLocker attack may come from various sources; one such is disguised as a legitimate email attachment. When activated, the malware encrypts certain types of files stored on […]

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Tech Short: Data Encryption

Data Encryption is the intentional scrambling of information into unreadable form – until it is later converted back into its original form by the intended recipient. Looking for data encryption tools or info have a look below: GNU Privacy Guard – GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is an open-source implementation of the famed Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) […]

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SharePoint 2013: Upgrade to Claims Based Authentication

Claims-based authentication is an essential component to enable the advanced functionality of SharePoint 2013. To move classic-mode web applications from SharePoint 2010 Products to SharePoint 2013, you can convert them to claims-based web applications within SharePoint 2010 Products, and then migrate them to SharePoint 2013. The procedures in this post will address the issue I […]

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Firefox: Add a Trusted Certificate Authority

By default Firefox has its own certificate store from well-know and trusted commercial Certificate Authorities. So today when I pushed out an internal self signed certificate; Firefox did not reconcile it as valid. To correct this issue I did the following: Launched Firefox Opened the options panel and selected Advanced Selected View Certificates to access […]