Author: TNGardiner
How to temporarily prevent a driver update from reinstalling in Windows 10
To temporarily prevent the driver from being reinstalled until a new driver fix is available, a troubleshooter is available that provides a user interface to hide and show Windows updates and drivers for Windows 10. The following troubleshooter is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center: Download the “Show or hide updates” troubleshooter package now. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3073930/how-to-temporarily-prevent-a-driver-update-from-reinstalling-in-window
An error occurred while using SSL configuration for endpoint 0.0.0.0:444
A customer of mine contacted me complaining Exchange was down, OWA failed, and all Outlook clients could not connect. They were running Exchange 2013 CU13. In the system logs, the following error was experienced throughout: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-HttpEvent Date: 28/09/2017 7:24:32 AM Event ID: 15021 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: exchange.domain.local Description: An error occurred while using SSL configuration for endpoint 0.0.0.0:444. The error status code is […]
Outlook – To create a signature without the logo showing as an attachment
Problem When adding a logo to a signature, the recipient sees your email as though it has an attachment. Solution The logo needs to be added in a GIF form so that the signature is shown without being an attachment Part 1: Convert Image to Gif Note the image must be a GIF file for this to work correctly. You can convert a jpeg or png file to gif file by using ‘Paint’ application […]
Intel Servers – Retrieving Server Log Files
In the event there are server issues on the vessel’s Intel server, you may be required to submit server logs to Intel engineers Installing the Intel® System Information Retrieval Utility Download the Utility from https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26991/System-Information-Retrieval-Utility-SysInfo-?v=t Format a USB drive as FAT32 and create a folder sysinfo Extract the files to your hard drive and copy the files in the folder UEFI into the sysinfo folder of the USB On the server change the boot […]
Exchange 2013 – Renewing your Certificate
Note Current Cost of SSL SAN Certificate February 2016 Digicert 3 year SAN (four domains) $700 Comodo 3 year SAN certificate (three domains) £705 (plus £105 per additional domain) Trustsign 3 year UCC Certificate (three domains) £295 plus VAT ($410 plus VAT) plus £90 ($125) per additional domain Also note that after February 2018 the longest period you can buy is 2 years. Sealion require four domain SAN for Exchange mail.sealionshipping.co.uk autodiscover.sealionshipping.co.uk mail.sealion.com.br autodiscover.sealion.com.br Process To […]
Mimecast – Impersonation Protection Policies
To implement an Impersonation Protection policy requires three steps:- Creating the Impersonation Protection Policy Defining a group of internal users likely to be attacked by Impersonation emails Applying the policy to this group Steps Creating the Impersonation Policy The policy is defined under Administration, Gateway, Policies. Then in the dropdown box under Definition – choose Impersonation Protection Then select New Definition (or amend the existing policy “SSL Impersonation Protection Policy”) Use the existing policy as […]
GTMailPlus – Migrating from GTMail
It is important to notify GTMaritime Support of the vessel(s) you are migrating and they will make sure that the correct vessel configurations are available for you to collect in the portal. Also they will need to know once you have completed the migration so they can turn off the vessel in the old GTMail system. Preliminary Work There are two versions of GTMailPlus – one for Windows 2003 (Previous Versions – Version […]
GTMailPlus – Server 2012 Installation Prerequisite – EFS DATA Encryption
Other than the .NET FRAMEWORK v4.6.2 prerequisite that needs to be installed on a Windows 2012 server, once GTMailPlus is installed you will need to enable EFS folder encryption on the MailBoxRepository folder located in the C:\Encore folder or the Encore service (essential to mail transmission) will fail. Data Recovery Agent Note that EFS requires a certificate and this is associated with the logged on user. In the case of the server that logged on […]
OCS – Not Seeing Network Drives in Explorer
To fix a CTSchedule problem we added a tick to the tickbox that states ‘Run this program as an administrator’ in the compatibility tab in the properties of the desktop shortcut. If this is left on the OCS Explorer will lose it’s network shares. The original idea of adding the tick to the box was so that the system could run in Administrator mode, but this needs only to be done once. After the program […]