Dell salespeople are notorious for trying to trick you into a phone call with them by sending cold-call meeting invites to try and trick you into having a call with them. This tactic needs to stop. I’ve added a rule on our mail server to block and reject any emails from Dell. Nobody has time… Read More: Dell and their stupid sales tactics »
Zabbix is a fantastic open-source application for monitoring your network attached devices. In regard to monitoring Windows endpoints, there are many Windows services that you will not want to see alerts for in your Zabbix dashboard. You can add exclusions to the template so that this excess clutter is not shown. This is a question… Read More: Excluding Windows service alerts from Zabbix »
BrightTALK is a shit organization that is supposed to be a media company providing technology webinars you can watch. The problem is they are one of the most obnoxious spammers on the planet. If your email addresse gets on one of their lists, you are screwed! Their unsubscribe options do not work and seem to… Read More: BrightTALK the obnoxious spammer »
There may be a time when you need to hide an installed application so that it will not be uninstalled. An easy way to keep an application from being uninstalled is to just hide it from appearing in Windows add/remove programs. This is easily achieved by adding the SystemComponent value DWORD in the uninstall section… Read More: Hide installed application in Windows »