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What ports do you need open for SEP manager to communicate?

If you are setting up SEP, Symantec End Point Protection, make sure you open ports 9090, 8014 and 8443 to avoid any communication issues by default.

Removal instructions for SEP 11

Recently, I have been working a lot with SEP, also known as Symantec End Point Protection, whch is really a great product for protecting the network and computers from virus’s, and other malware. It also has a whole host of features to control your staff from getting into trouble at work. While troubleshooting an issue, […]

Office 2007 OEM and Terminal Server

On a Windows 2008 terminal server, each time I install Office 2007 OEM in it, and then run the application, I get the error “This feature is not available. For more information, contact your system administrator.

This is a very generic error. I made sure that I used the command change user […]

Don’t fire your employee’s, fire your servers!

Last month, I was invited to attend a four day training at Intel’s Hillsboro Oregon campus for a program that is called NPW (New Platform Workshop). Every time Intel comes out with a whole new platform, they select key partners to come and train on the new platforms. The new platform I received training on […]

Adding a x86 print driver to a x64 print server

Have you ever tried to add an additional print driver on a Windows 2008 x64 server? If so, you know how it pretty much can’t be done. Here is my recommended way to add x86 drivers for say Windows XP, etc..

1. On any one of the clients machine running 32-bit OS.

2. […]

Stopping the hackers from other countries

Recently I got a call from one of my customers complaining about user accounts not able to login to the server. After doing some digging in the event log, I soon discovered that FTP was setup, which they use, and outside people from other countries that were not invited to the server were attempting to […]

Document Redirection common mistakes

Often, I run into a common issue where document redirection is not working properly on a Windows XP or Vista workstation. This happens on Windows 2003 & Windows 2008 Server and SBS flavors. The common fix I find is by following this Microsoft article, at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443

Intel Vpro

My company has been selling the Intel Vpro motherboards for the last three years. I have barely dived into how it all works, and much more importantly, utilizing this cool technology. I came across this community site tonight at Intel that just jump started me into a whole new learning path. http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-1171

I also […]