Archive for Utilities

Find what the “Unknown Device” is in Device Manager

 
Ahhh, nothing like reinstalling an older pc and not knowing what exactly some of the hardware is.  Once in a blue moon these utilities can become handy to fix the dreaded:
 
 
Here’s a couple utilities that help detect what the “Unknown Device” in the device manager is
http://www.halfdone.org/ukd/
http://www.zhangduo.com/udi.html
I personally have used the first one, and it [...]

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Worried about conficker virus? You shouldnt be if you're using OpenDNS

There’s a lot of media / hype going around about the “Conficker” virus.   I have been asked at least 30 or 40 times in the past day on what people need to do in order to make sure they do not have the conficker virus.
A majority of my clients use OpenDNS.   And if you are, [...]

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Sonicwall SonicOS Standard to Enhanced Settings Converter

Here is a tool/utility provided by Sonicwall that helps the upgrade process of going from SonicOS Standard to SonicOS Enhanced.   Before this tool/utility was released, there was no way to transfer any settings over when you upgraded the firmware from Standard to Enhanced.   You had to manually re-enter EVERYTHING from scratch.   Which was quite the [...]

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IMF Companion – Utility to help deal with messages filtered by the Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter (IMF)

This is the utility I use to help view, delete, unblock, whitelist, and delete messages filtered by the Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) that is built into SP2 of Exchange 2003.
Here is a link to the website:
http://stoekenbroek.com/imfcompanion/default.htm
You can view a review of other IMF Managers at:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/IMF-Managers.html
I have tried all of them, and I personally like IMF [...]

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