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The difficulties of installing an SSL certificate on a ZyXEL ZyWall USG 300 firewall (if even possible!)

Sole — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:25:51 +0000

Having spent some time trying to install an SSL certificate from a trusted certification authority on this product, I felt I should share my findings as they might save someone else the headaches and time I had to spend on this. For reference I used a ZyXEL ZyWall USG 300 with Firmware version: 2.20(AOE.6) / [...]

How to get rid of the anoying syntax error popup message when using Internet Explorer with Java so your mother-in-law will stop buggin’ you about it

Sole — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:50:19 +0000

Quite some time ago I encountered this error the first time, to be honest i can not even remember when it was. But I do know it was Windows 7 and Internet Explorer fully updated, together with the current Java runtime environment that gave me the problem, but I am getting ahead of myself. Problem [...]

Finding out what clients work with different SSL certificates, building a SSL comparison database

Sole — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:51:42 +0000

I always wanted the ability to compare different SSL certificates with the clients that do or do not support them. But at best you can download the roots that a mobile client, browser or operating system uses and compare them with the certificates issued by thoose roots. A cumbersome and extremely tedious task, that still [...]

VBScript to show current Teamviewer ID and save to text file

Sole — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:20:52 +0000

Since TeamViewer can be rolled out in an organization with the MSI package and sample vbs scripts from TeamViewer, I was asked if it would be hard to do a small VBScript to fetch the TeamViewer ID from theese machines and save it somewhere for the support staff to look up in. This script is [...]

Active Directory Shadow Group Script – will let you spend less time on updating group memberships

Sole — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:24:34 +0000

Introduction If you are just looking for a free shadow group script, either click here for a nice simple one or go to the bottom of this post for the full AD administrated script. I was looking into Shadow Groups, inspired by a customer migrating from Novell to Active Directory. Apparently in Novell you can use Organizational Units [...]

How to configure your virtual Domain Controllers and avoid simple mistakes with resulting big problems

Sole — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:56:52 +0000

So You went ahead and used virtualized Domain Controllers for Your Active Directory domain, congratulations! I am sure You will be happy with the decission, as long as You have a decent virtualizing environment, this will give You both peace of mind, faster recovery and cheaper redundancy. There is however some special considerations You must [...]

Debugging an OCS installation just got easier

Sole — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:02:39 +0000

I might be realy slow in discovering this, after all it has been some months since I last touched an OCS installation. I seriusly wished I had this tool when I was last time thou. This tool just like the Exchange testing tool, will show all the steps involved in connecting to an OCS system [...]

VBScript to join computers to domain, with specific user and avoid having to manually place them in AD

Sole — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:28:49 +0000

The following script was used for automatically joining alot of computers to an Active Directory domain, it was required to place the computer in a specific Organizational Unit and also to run with a specified user with only permissions to add machines in this OU and the default new computers OU (giving it unlimited join [...]

How to silently install ZenWorks 10 with vbScript without having to watch the screen during installation

Sole — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:35:41 +0000

So You want to install ZenWorks 10.x.x.x silently on a machine, sounds easy enough right? Well ZenWorks is making it slightly harder, if You just run the installer with a stay quiet parameter, when it finishes and You or the installer reboots, it was not actually finished. After the installation ZenWorks sits and runs msi [...]

How to disable administrative shares on workstations thru Group Policy and avoid spending time on pesty virus infections

Sole — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:22:11 +0000

Large companies sometimes have problems with a virus that realy loves administrative shares on other workstations (i.e. c$ and admin$), it will try and break into theese to spread it self directly. The easy option ofcourse being kill the virus or even better harden administrative users and not use administrator rights for normal users! But untill [...]