When our marketing department united for the first time, they decided that it’s time for us to use corporate email signature. Signature should look the same on all emails sent to external emails. Difference being name, telephone and email address. They crashed in to our office and said from now on, our emails have to look […]
How and Why test website speed
I received a call this morning, it was CFO. He asked why our web shop is so slow. I didn’t know the answer, I told him to call our internet manager. 5 minutes later I received a call from our Internet manager. He said that he doesn’t know why our website is so slow and […]
Essential website speed test tools
Why is it so important to have your website optimised for speed? There are couple of reasons, one reason is that google is using Speed index for website ranking. That means that if your website loads slowly your page will be ranked lower than your website optimised for speed. Another reason is user experience, if […]
How to block RDP brute force attacks on your Windows webserver for free
After a long time, I had a drink with a friend who runs a hosting business on Windows servers. I don’t know a lot of people who run their hosting business on a Windows platform so I asked him if he could show me how he does things in a Windows world. He fired up […]
Great Sysadmin utility for IOS ManageEngine PingTool
Great Sysadmin utility for IOS ManageEngine PingTool has several tools that are needed by Sysadmins. Usually when you need those tools the most you just happen to be out of the office, without a computer. Don’t be fooled by the name PingTool as it is small Swiss army knife for IOS. And free
Universal VPN client Shrewsoft VPN
Shrew VPN client works with Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Zywall and many other VPN Appliances. I have used it successfully with Juniper SSG and CISCO ASA and it worked great.
How to use any email client with Exchange EWS
Would you like to use Thunderbird to connect to Exchange EWS? Perhaps some other email client? Or your company still uses Exchange 2003 and you have Outlook 2011 installed on you Mac?
Top 3 Free Screenshot tools
I often get asked what I use for Screenshots. In the company I work for, some people had a requirement for a program that is more advanced than the built-in Windows Snippet tool. While Snippet can work for one or two screenshots, the moment you have to do a lot of screenshots, you need a better solution. […]
Trilead VM Explorer 5.0 Released
Trilead is one of the few good backup software products that was good and kept free version along with the commercial version. It’s also one of the few companies that have very simple licensing. You only have to license a host where you install the application. Compared to other vendors where they charge per socket […]
Swiss Army knife for every Admin – IntelliAdmin Network Administrator
There are times I forget about IntelliAdmin Network Administrator completely, I forget it’s installed and waiting for me on my computer, until there is a task I have to do, like disabling Automatic update of Internet Explorer or to remotely reboot a computer. My admin friends ask me: ”But why do you use this tool? You […]
