Anti-Spam Glitch: Fixed

by [Profile] | Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Recently a glitch with our anti spam system prevented scheduled reports from being delivered. This would mean that quarantined items would have been stored for approximately 1 week until yesterday the 21st of December 2011.

Measures have been taken to ensure that this does not occur again. The root cause appears to have been a short disconnect between the spam server array servers during our core switching firmware upgrade.

During this issue mail was still processed and delivered which is why the issue carried on for so long without being identified.

If you ever have any concerns you can manually generate a report through this page: http://www.connectivityit.com.au/support/get-spamreport/


Permalink: http://www.connectivityit.com.au/2011/12/22/anti-spam-glitch-fixed/

Updating Printer Configurations

by [Profile] | Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

We had recently made changes to a clients network updating the IP range. This required updating the printer IP’s to the new range. The problem however was that every PC over multiple sites was configured with the static IP Address of the printer. What to do? This script creates a new printer port, then assigns the port to the printer of choice. We were able to set this to run on computer startup and everyone was happy. Change the sections in bold as you require.

 

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\\\" & strComputer & "\\root\\cimv2")
Set objNewPort = objWMIService.Get _
("Win32_TCPIPPrinterPort").SpawnInstance_

objNewPort.Name = "NAME" 
objNewPort.Protocol = 1 
objNewPort.HostAddress = "127.0.0.1"
objNewPort.PortNumber = "9100" 
objNewPort.SNMPCommunity = "public" 
objNewPort.SNMPDevIndex = 1 
objNewPort.SNMPEnabled = True
objNewPort.Put_

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\\\" & strComputer & "\\root\\cimv2"))

Set colPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * From Win32_Printer Where DeviceID='PRINTER NAME'")

For Each objPrinter in colPrinters
objPrinter.PortName = objNewPort.Name
objPrinter.Put_
Next

Permalink: http://www.connectivityit.com.au/2011/12/21/updating-printer-configurations/

Holiday Operating Hours

by [Profile] | Monday, December 12th, 2011

Over the 2011 Christmas period, Connectivity I.T. will operate with the following hours:

23/12/2011 : 8.30 AM – 5.00 PM (Normal)
24/12/2011 : Closed
25/12/2011 : Closed
26/12/2011 : Closed
27/12/2011 : Closed
28/12/2011 : Closed
29/12/2011 : Closed
30/12/2011 : Closed
31/12/2011 : Closed
1/1/2012 : Closed
2/1/2010: 8.30 AM – 5.00 PM (Normal)

During the period from the 24th of December through to January 1st, network and server operations will be continuously monitored remotely by technicians. Emergency support will be available however our holiday rates apply. During this period you may contact either company director for support.

From our team at Connectivity I.T. we wish you a very happy Christmas and new years. We look forward to another excellent year working with you in 2012.


Permalink: http://www.connectivityit.com.au/2011/12/12/holiday-operating-hours/

How To: Google [Part 1]

by [Profile] | Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Google is the undoubtably the internets leading search engine but there are a few tricks you can use to make it work better for you.

Head to google.com and try these search strings yourself.

You can restrict your search to a specific website by using the following command:
site:telstra.com ~iphone
This will search the term iphone on telstra.com.

You can exclude a term from the results by using the minus symbol:
site:telstra.com ~iphone -crowdsupport

You can restrict the time window for search results with the following:
site:telstra.com ~iphone -crowdsupport 2010..2011

You can match an exact combination of terms with the following:
site:telstra.com ~iphone -crowdsupport 2010..2011 “my prepaid”

As you can see these tricks really help you narrow down your search results. There will be more Google tips to come!


Permalink: http://www.connectivityit.com.au/2011/12/10/how-to-google/

Cloud Security

by [Profile] | Friday, December 9th, 2011

Compatibility and ease of access at the natural enemies of robust network security. Making networks easier to access for users inevitably results in making easier for malicious individuals to gain unauthorized access.

This ‘phenomenon’ is even more prevalent in Cloud environments. When many tenants rent the same server space, everyone wants ease of access to their own leased space. Is your Cloud provider leaving your front door unlocked?

This mornings article from theage.com.au (http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/cloud-security-evaporates-in-testing-20111207-1oi6y.html) is well worth a read to any Cloud technology customer.

At Connectivity I.T. development is always ongoing, not just for performance and redundancy, but most importantly security. I would like to reassure each of our Cloud customers that we ensure maximum seperation of client space and continue to develop and harden the infrastruture.


Permalink: http://www.connectivityit.com.au/2011/12/09/cloud-security/

IBM CPU Install

by [Profile] | Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Just another reason we choose IBM servers. Only 30 seconds to install a CPU.


Permalink: http://www.connectivityit.com.au/2011/12/01/ibm-cpu-install/