Hide disabled active directory users from Microsoft Online Exchange Address lists

Hide disabled active directory users from Microsoft Online Exchange Address lists

 The other day I ran across an issue where disabled active directory users were still showing up in the global address lists.  If you set the msexchhidefromaddresslists attribute to TRUE on the account in local AD, that will replicate to Online Exchange and the user will be hidden from all address lists including the Global Address list.

Open the Active Directory management snap-in, open the view menu and select Advanced Features.

 

Open the properties for the user you want to hide from address lists.
Select the Attribute Editor tab
Scroll and find the attribute msExchHideFromAddressLists
Change value to TRUE
Click OK
The attribute will synchronize to  MSOE system and the user will no longer show up in address lists.

Remove Rootkit.Win32.TDDS with TDDSkiller

Getting hit by TDDS rootkit is really annoying--constant browser redirects to random website that will lead you to getting more and more infected.  All the scans you do with Malwarebytes, Superantispyare, Spybot, etc--will not find nor remove the rootkit.  I have found that Kaspersky made a nice little targeted scanner to remove this nasty little bastard.

Download, unpack, run, scan, nuke, reboot.

http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.zip

Thank you Kaspersky!!!

Clean install Windows 7 from Upgrade media

As many of you might know you cannot activate a Windows 7 clean install done with upgrade media, this mainly has to do with a registry key that blocks it.  Here is a quick and easy way to activate.

Open regedit, navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/

Modify DWORD value "MediaBootInstall" from "1" to "0".
Close regedit.

Open a CMD prompt with administrator rights (right click command prompt, run as admin).
type: slmgr /rearm

Reboot, run activation wizard and complete activation, all done!

 

Protecting your Mac from Malware

Just a couple free programs to keep your Mac clean, enjoy.

http://www.clamxav.com/

http://www.iantivirus.com/

They both do a pretty good job, I personally use ClamXav.

New Mac Defender malware variant drops admin password requirement!

New Mac Defender malware variant drops admin password requirement!

Watch out Mac users malware is increasing rapidly.  Now that programmers have figured out how to walk around the admin password requirement for installation we are going to see a major increase of infected Macs.   An installer window still comes up asking to install "Mac Guard" so as long as you don't install--you will be ok.   Check out this blog for more info.

 

Malware: OSX/MacDefender.F and OSX/MacDefender.G
Risk: Medium; effective SEO poisoning has led many Mac users to this type of malware, and no administrator password is required to install this new variant.

Means of protection: the first thing to do is make sure that when seeing a web page that looks like a Finder window, and purports to be scanning your Mac, you know that this is bogus. Leave the page, and quit your web browser. If anything has downloaded, and the Installer application has opened, quit it right away; look in your Downloads folder for the file, then delete it. Next, users should uncheck the “Open ‘safe’ files after downloading” option in Safari’s General preferences. 

Quick and simple instant remote desktop

Web based, cross platform, java, free, etc...  enjoy.

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Windows Update status broken in XP Security Center

Machine was hit by some malware and broke Windows Updates, update status was broken in security center and would not get updates, windowsupdate.com was also broken and threw a unknown error.  This fixed it for me after removing malware with latest Malwarebytes.

Click Start, select Run and type:

regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 atl.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll

Windows XP

XP is so terrible, it should be illegal to use it.

Get Windows 7 people!  Geesh.

The Microsoft Cloud Cometh

I already have Microsoft Online Services (Online Exchange) at several client locations, but Microsoft's upcoming Office365 suite  (in Beta) is replacing Online Exchange and adding some really nice features for only $1 more a month per user.  Includes 25GB Email & Calendar, Office Web Apps (Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, Outlook), Sharepoint, Lync, and 99.9% Uptime, and more! Check out the Beta...