It’s amusing how many people install software like the “atomic clock” application to keep there servers/desktops in sync with a real server. They don’t seem to realize that the functionality is pre-build into windows in the form of the w32time service. For example, our domain controllers in the office are syncing with pool.ntp.org. [...]

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I have been known to lose track of time every once in a while, but not 3 days. I just logged onto our monitoring server after noticing some oddness in time. When logging on, the server said it was the 29th of October. That was 3 days ago. So I execute [...]

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When installing any office products, and you get to the last page that asks if you want to remove the installation files… DO NOT DO IT. Some patches require access to the install CD. If you leave the installation files installed on your computer, you don’t need the CD. If you remove [...]

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