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Monitoring Public Facing Servers, and Services for Free

Its not often I can say a free hosted product can give you alerts and all the info you wanted,  but this one does. I was using the service Monitor.us which is excellent to monitor public site and endpoints.  However for free version had a limitation of only 2 systems so I had to resort to […]

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Generate a CSR using OpenSSL

Sometimes I generate a CSR to acquire an SSL cert from a public CA. Normally where I work I do this from a windows server.  For my personal knowledge I decided to  refresh myself on how to do this with OpenSSL. What’s OpenSSL? OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. To generate […]

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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 […]

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Tech Short: What is my Lync 2010 Server Version?

So you are looking to upgrade; or at best update to a CU and well the first question in your mind is; what version of Lync am I running. This info can be obtained by the Lync Server Management Shell   Run the following command: Get-CsServerVersion and you now have your server version As always, […]

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Annoying: Ask Toolbar install with Java

How many times have you install or simply updated your Java, only to be asked once again to install third part software such as the ask toolbar? How many time have end users in your company also done this only to have the tool bar eat away at resources on their workstations or conflict with […]

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Chrome 38 breaks parts of Outlook Web App 2013

It seems that my browser of choice is no longer working with Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2013. Google has made changes to the latest version of their browser and removed the API ( showModalDialog ) which has serious consequences for managing a major parts of Exchange. In my test I have noticed management options that I am […]