Windows 10 Create a WMI Filter for Group Policy
KB ID 0001267 Problem I was messing around with some GPO’s for client today to replace ‘Edge’ as the default browser, (with IE11). To make the whole process more efficient, I wanted to use a WMI filter toapply the policy only to Windows 10 machines. Before this used to be simple enough, you just set the Windows version in a WMI query. But because it searches for a string e.g. 6.1 (for Windows 8.1), that’s...
SmoothWall – Allowing Windows Updates and Windows Activation
KB ID 0000441 Problem I’ve had fun this week installing a new virtual environment for a client with a SmoothWall firewall. It took a call to SmoothWall support for me to get Windows updates to work, then after activating a few 2008 R2 servers via phone, I was motivated to get online activation running as well. Windows Activation Error – (We are being blocked by the SmoothWall Proxy). A problem occurred when Windows tried...
SEM – SPAMfighter Exchange Module – Installation and Configuration with Exchange 2013
KB ID 0000824 Problem “I seem to get a lot of spam”, and “I get a lot more spam than I used to” are right up there with “My computer is running slow”. It’s a problem that, eats up users time and fills your mail stores with junk, and time/disk space costs money. SEM is tiny! In a world where a graphics driver is now over 100MB the entire install suite is less than 11MB. This is going into my...
Groupshield 7 – Blocking Keywords
KB ID 0000438 Problem You would like Groupshield to block email containing certain keywords, for example you are getting a lot of spam containing certain words and phrases, in either the the subject line or message body. Solution Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links NA
Blocking Google Talk (Cisco ASA)
KB ID 0000323 Problem You want to block access to Google Talk, but not disrupt other services like Google Search and Gmail. Solution Yes, you could write a REGEX and block it with an MPF, like I did here, to block Facebook. But Google Talk only runs on 4 servers and uses 4 ports. 1. Connect to the Cisco ASA, and go to configure terminal mode. PetesASA> PetesASA> en Password: ******** PetesASA# configure terminal...