Priveon Labs Security Blog

Changing Tivoli Endpoint Manager service startup from Automatic (Delayed Start) to Automatic

Fred Parks — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:59:41 +0000

Background While working in an environment with TEM (Tivoli Endpoint Manager - formerly BigFix) and Cisco's NAC (Network Admission Control) technology, I ran into an issue with Windows 7 machines not being allowed to pass through NAC after a TEM client…

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Security Patch Breaks Printing in Outlook 2007 - Recalled by Microsoft

Fred Parks — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:52:36 +0000

Anybody who installed Kb2509470 last week and happened to have Outlook 2007 may have run into a rather bizarre issue trying to print from Outlook. When attempting to print or generate a print preview from within Outlook, the user would get the error mess…

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User account not shown in Active Directory unless Advanced Mode enabled - Cisco Unity is the Culprit

Fred Parks — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:56:31 +0000

I recently ran into a situation where certain users in Active Directory were just not showing up for some administrators while other admins could see them just fine. Upon further investigation it became evident that if the Advanced Mode of Active Directo…

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Powershell scripting with ESX 4.x

Derrick Taylor — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:55:05 +0000

VMWare now includes Powershell integration into their VI Toolkit releases. This allows us the ability to run cmdlets and scripts from Powershell to control your VMWare environment, making manual and time-consuming tasks much quicker and easier. You…

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Disabling the Status Notification Pop-up in HP's Universal Print Driver.

Derrick Taylor — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:17:35 +0000

HP's universal Print driver can help ease managing drivers for printers in a big way. It can help keep the server's driver repository cleaner, it helps to make setting a Print server up much easier, and it gives more management options. That being s…

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