Originally published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, June 16, 2020 As more and more services move to the cloud, tracking one’s passwords becomes more difficult. Combined with the ever-increasing number of bad actors on the internet, intent on committing bad acts, use of a password management program is virtually a requirement. Gone are the days [...]
Originally published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, May 21, 2019 Microsoft’s Windows 7 desktop operating system went “end of life” on January 14, 2020. What does this dramatic-sounding statement really mean? Is it really dead, a viable product or somewhere in between? First off, let’s define what end of life, or EOL, really means. For [...]
Originally published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, July 14, 2020 Zoom, the videoconferencing application, has experienced a meteoric rise in usage through the pandemic, as many folks work from home. It has come under fire, however, for privacy and security concerns. Do you need to be worried? Zoom seemingly came out of nowhere to overtake [...]
Does your managed services provider handle all of your technology needs? We were recently called into a new client who needed help with their phone system. Our IT ninjas have no fear; we agreed to take a look. The system turned out to be an older but not ancient Avaya PBX. The client had [...]
Originally published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, February 25, 2020 A reader asks, “Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what is an IP address and why do I care?” While a cliche, it is especially true in that there is no such thing as a stupid question. The fact of the matter is [...]
Originally published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, December 31, 2019 It’s usually the custom to think of all the good things on the horizon as we approach the new year. Unfortunately, as 2019 comes to an end, the severity and sophistication of online scams are increasing at an alarming pace. If folks aren’t careful, 2020 [...]
This PowerShell script is something we worked up for a large deployment moving users profiles cross forest with ADMT. Each one needed to be reset to login as ADMT does not keep those credentials. This is using the login twice, and requires MSONLINE modules. The first login is to Office 365 Exchange, the second [...]
Spashdata released their list of most commonly used passwords recently. While I am not sure where all of this data is collected from I can say I see a number of these in the field all the time. If you have a password on this list, it is a good idea to change it. If [...]