Yet Another IT Professional Blog

If you are here, it means you already know that configuring an anti-virus is not as simple as « next, next, next, ok ». Especially, deploying an antivirus to hundreds of clients… You’ve got to make sure that your clients are not suffering from intrusive antivirus processes, setup exclusions properly so that you don’t scan gigabytes of ISO files, make sure that the clients get the most recent and proper updates even if they are not connected to your network… Do you now get what I mean? J I went through this process recently. We’re using Trend-Micro Worry-Free Advanced Business security software for a couple of years now. Recently Trend-Micro had an update and the most recent version of the program is version 8 as of writing this article. The process of upgrading didn’t go very well so I had to reinstall it from scratch! Here are my notes regarding this project; I am not an antivirus expert but I guess every antivirus product has their own installing and “best practices...

I came across this issue several times and each time I see this, I can’t remember quiet well what to do... So I decided to document my procedure. Problem: With Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 editions, you have the “Network Locations” options. Basically, whenever your computer connects to a new network Windows is asking you if you are connected to a “Home” network, “Work” network or a “Public” network. Based on your choice Windows sets its firewall settings automatically. This feature is really clever as you don’t want your firewall to be open to everyone while you are connected to Starbuck’s “Public” network and you absolutely don’t want your file sharing to be blocked while you are at home (Home) network.   If you ever made a mistake choosing your network location, you can always go back to “Network and Sharing Center” from “Control Panel” and click on the link that defines the actual network location.   Now the problem is, sometimes this option is grayed out or the opti...

If you have a Terminal Server 2008R2 which is used widely in your company and users need to use printers a lot, than you’ll face this default printer problem later or sooner. You can log on as the user on the terminal server, add the printers you would like and set the default printer like you would do on a normal workstation, but the default printer will change to the local machines default printer automatically. Let’s say you are using “comp1” in order to make a “Remote Desktop” connection to a terminal server which is called “Terminal”. Well, as an example, if you have “XPS Virtual Printer” set as a default printer on “comp1” and you make a remote desktop connection to the “Terminal” server, your default printer will be set to “XPS Virtual Printer” by default in the terminal server session. To avoid that action and keep the same printer as a default printer in terminal server sessions, you will need to follow these instructions; If you want to change the behavior only for one user,...