If you are looking for some fruity, high alcohol, complex, ruthless, holiday cheer in a bottle, then Mad Elf Ale is a seasonal craft beer for you. And this beer is not messing around! This tasty brew, with a mosaic of rich cherry and harmoniously sweet honey, will have you emptying a bottle in no time. But watch out,…
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With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduced Fine-Grained Password policies which utilizes a new Active Directory object called Password Settings Object (PSO). These objects allow you to more easily create and assign password policies to subsets of users, albeit with a bit of an unpolished implementation method compared to the old method via group policy (GPO). If…
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For several months an Internet Explorer 11 hang/crash issue plagued nearly half of the 15 load-balanced Citrix XenApp 6.0 virtual machines at our corporate headquarters. These servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2. When users would click links in Outlook, nothing would happen (from their perspective). When users tried to launch the Internet Explorer (Citrix) published…
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Let’s say you have an application that has a flat file repository for files attached to records. In other words, the application uses a simple Windows share for its file repository. And all users of this application need the ability to read, write, and delete files in this directory, but given the sensitive nature of…
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This story begins with SevOne, our in-house network performance monitoring system. We have a policy configured in SevOne to alert us when a router serial interface is at or above 95%, meaning the Sprint MPLS WAN link for that location is nearly if not fully consumed. Obviously this is a bad thing as it severely…
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So, you just copied a few dozen photos of your son’s 8th birthday party to your MacBook, and now you want to have the family gather around to relive this jovial event. A photo slideshow would be best, but you don’t have iPhoto or any other photo apps installed. What to do? By using the Quick…
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In this installment of Captain Obvious Log, we focus our attention on the Remote Desktop connection bar, a ubiquitous hallmark of every IT geek’s daily life. So, one would think every IT geek would know how to hide/display the connection bar depending on what is suitable for a given situation. Well, sometimes we can go…
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It’s like suckin’ on a juicy 7.5% ABV clementine, which 9 out of 10 craft beer aficionados agree, is more preferable to suckin’ on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freez. If you like a good India Pale Ale (IPA), and if you are a fan of citrus, then Nugget Nectar by Troegs Brewing Company is your beer…
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