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Disable Windows Firewall Server Core

Server Core now installed and what is the first command I choose to run in PowerShell Its a command to disable all firewall profiles: netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off  

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Windows 10 Enterprise 2015 LTSB, What’s That?

If you pondered on what is “LTSB”. Here is some “shared” info for you. What is the Long Term Servicing Branch? “Windows 10 uses a new approach to providing updates to users. Traditionally Microsoft would release a version of Windows and then provide updates such as security and bug fixes, but not add any major, […]

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Office 365: Self Service of Distribution Groups

The ability to self service the creation of distributions groups has been a feature for quite some time in my Exchange experiences.  Now that I am in Office 365 / Exchange Online this functionally is no longer available for synced groups. This now forces the enlistment of the support department to facilitate all mortification for […]

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SOTD: Statement from MARKETING & TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC.

Another case of Monday morning spam/malware – message body – Dear Customer : Your statement is attached. Please remit payment at your earliest convenience. Thank you for your business – we appreciate it very much. Sincerely, MARKETING & TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC. – end of message –  – message also has a file attachment – docs2015.zip – […]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin: Windows, IE, Exchange and Office

Microsoft has released their Advance Notification for the December 2014 security bulletins. There will be a total of seven bulletins, three of which will update critical vulnerabilities.  Critical update affects Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 The critical update also affect Exchange Email Product Line as well as Office 2010. Office […]

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SHA-1 based SSL Certificates are being Phased Out

Hello friends, The following post is to advice some of you that run public facing websites which use SSL.  Google Chrome  will start giving users Warning messages when accessing sites that use SHA-1 based SSL Certificates. By the way – This is scheduled to start happening in under a month form now. And if you are […]