So here is something silly I was running up against. In the end its super simple, but its not obvious, and not easy to google for.
I want to equip the new servers are are installing with a standard weekly reboot schedule.
I created a batch file that launched shutdown.exe with some fancy parameters, and set this [...]

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admin on September 22nd, 2005

http://www.waarschuwingsdienst.nl/movies/botnetfilm_en.wmv
The Dutch site “Waarschuwingsdienst.nl” (Warningservice) (A part of the Dutch ministry of Economics) has made this animated movie in both Dutch and English. It shows, in an entertaining way, what the threat is from Virusses, Worms, Bots, and how your pc can be turned into a zombie pc.
Its a great effort on their part to [...]

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In the Trenches » Another Tech Chat - Affects of zotab and patch management
Particapated in another tech chat!
Havnt been blogging much cause I cant blog from work, and evenings are WoW..

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admin on August 17th, 2005

Originally uploaded by Jemimus.
Update fun at work today, trying desperately to get 50 windows 2000 servers up to some kinds of descent patch level.

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I finally got my nerve together and recorded an Admin-to-Admin segment for the In The Trenches podcast
Article here: http://kevindevin.com/?p=156
Listen to the episode here: http://libsyn.com/media/inthetrenches/ITT-20050811.mp3
Here are the notes for my segment:
Using Security Templates
Uses

Enforcing security policy onto a Workstation or Server
Setting software restriction policy (name, hash, path)
Setting secured groups
Enforcing NTFS permissions
Enforcing Registry [...]

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