How to configure the Windows XP/2003 security settings for #Sophos

If you have trouble pushing Sophos from your server to your workstations, consider reading the following article by Sophos:
How to configure the Windows XP/2003 security settings to allow one computer to be administered from another computer

We use GPO with Active Directory to push these settings automatically. While you’re there anyway, don’t forget to Disable the Windows Firewall for Domain Network Profiles and don’t forget to Enable the Remote Registry Service for your clients. Happy hacking!

New version of #WP-to-Twitter 1.3.4 released!

If you’re using both WordPress and Twitter, like I do, you might want to know that Joe Dolson released a new version of the plugin, that allows you to automatically tweet your posts to Twitter!
I noticed a bug that caused newly posted articles not to make it to Twitter, unless you edit them first (and save them and after that they got tweeted).

I also found that posts submitted by e-mail got tweeted twice!
Joe let me know that he released an update, so let’s see if it works!

#Compress #PowerPoint with NXPowerLite Desktop Edition

How many of you SysAdmins have users who make great PowerPoint presentations which are often too large to send by e-mail?
Most of the times this is due to the images included in the presentation. There’s a function in PowerPoint that allows you to compress the images, but it doesn’t work very well. NXPowerLite does! It costs a bit, but it works like a charm! Try it for free!

NXPowerLite Desktop Edition