Symantec Endpoint Cloud Protection

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September 29th, 2011

Symantec Endpoint on the cloud, this is a great idea. Firstly you always have the latest version of Symantec top class antivirus software and secondly your don’t have to worry about the overhead of the Management Console on a sever or workstation. Imagine you have a server with a third part mission critical system running on it, you don’t have a dedicated IT support engineer. You think about putting the Management Console on the server but the third party support team are against it as it may impact the mission critical software.

Simple use Symantec Endpoint Cloud, no management software. Control it from anywhere.

 

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Congratulations to Horizon Financial from Purconn IT Services

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September 12th, 2011

Congratulations to Horizon Financials on the launch of the new website, plenty of information and tips for saving money in these troubling times. Great layout and easy to navigate. Horizon Financial are one of our clients and offer a broad range of financial services, based in Gorey they have many years of experience behind them.

Well done to the guys in Graphedia in Wexford great job.

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Seagate Black Armor NAS Range Storage Servers

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June 27th, 2011

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Drobo Data Storage Array at Purconn IT Services

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January 18th, 2011

Presenting the Drobo range of data storage array which is increasingly becomeing the industries choice for “Network Attached Storage”.

Easy to deploy.

Cost affective.

And simple to manage.

For more contact us at tom@purconn.net

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Hard Reset of iPhone

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January 12th, 2011

You may need to perform a hard reset on your iPhone if it becomes unresponsive or is not behaving as it should.

  1. Simply hold the Wake/Sleep button and the Home button at the same time for 10 sec.
  2. You will see the slider bar appear , ignore this.
  3. When you see the Apple logo you can release the buttons.
  4. Your phone should start.

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Error 1327.Invalid Drive in Windows 7

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November 21st, 2010

This is a perplexing error when first encountered. It usually displays during an installation of software, while the software in question checks the drive allocations on the PC it will through this error. “Error 1327.Invalid Drive: *:” where “*” is the drive letter it has an issue with. This error only occurs on PCs that have had the personal folders remapped or changed. For instance if I change the Documents folder of a given user to point to a server location for backup purposes then this drive letter will cause the error.

You need to either remap the location to its original location or change a registry key.

1. Click Start, type regedit and press Enter.
2. Go to the following location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

And

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

3. Check if the drive letter in question is listed and change it for an available drive letter.

Now try installing the application.

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Avast Antivirus now available at Purconn IT Services

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November 16th, 2010

You may or may not have heard of Avast Antivirus software or may have used the free reduced features version on your Home PC. Now for  the total protection of the Avast rang of business solutions. Purconn IT Services have partnered with Avast to offer our clients an alternative to the slow and cumbersome regular antivirus packages out there.

Some Antivirus software is so heavy on system resources that your PC becomes unusable and you think you would be better off without it. Why not switch to Avast Pro or Avast Internet Security which offer excellent protection from today’s threats without killing your PC.

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Icons Disappearing in Windows 7

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November 10th, 2010

I have recently come across this issue on two occasions. Both were new installations of Windows 7 Pro and were on corporate networks. Once installed and running for a few weeks I was informed that some icons were disappearing and required to be reconfigured. They were all icons that were added like shortcuts to mapped drives and programs located on servers. After going through the possible causes and trawling the Internet I found this solution which for now seems to work.

Run “regedit”

  1. Go toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
  2. Change “Max Cached Icons” to 10000 or more. Upper and Lowercase SENSITIVE!
  3. If it doesn’t exist create it as new “string”
  4. Reboot

After that

  1. Go to”C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local“
  2. Delete IconCache.db
  3. Reboot again

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Microsoft to add Sercurity Essentials to Windows Updates

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November 5th, 2010

Microsoft have announced that they will be adding Security Essentials to the Windows Update stream. They have started in the US and hope to roll-out to the rest of the world in the next few months. Since its launch Microsoft Security Essentials has acquired a reputation for being a solid little anti-virus solution, and with the extension of its licensing to include small businesses I’m sure its reputation will only grow.

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On-line Backup With Mozy and Purconn IT Services

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October 6th, 2010

Purconn IT Services are proud to offer On-Line Backup with the world number one provider of on-line backup. Securely and automatically backup your data to an off site facility and relax in the knowledge that you are protected against disaster or loss of data. We can backup Exchange Servers to protect your e-mails and File servers for your critical data. With a number of restoration options you will be back up and running in the shortest possible time.

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Street View for Ireland

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October 1st, 2010

At last Ireland gets on StreetView, we all heard of the Google cars traveling around Ireland scaring cows and little old Lady’s when the odd looking vehicles peered over the hedge. Well this is what it was all about, now no more vague directions you can see your journey as you would drive it. This with the introduction of Loc8 numbers there is no excuse for a courier not finding you.

Even if you just want to see if the Hotel you are staying in next weekend is nice or across the road from a landfill site StreetView is perfect.

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Toshiba Portege Ultra Mobile Laptop

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September 22nd, 2010

This is the lightest full function laptop Thosiba have ever made, with its Magnesium body and sleek design it looks a million dollars.

New cooling technology and full voltage Intel processors give performance to run todays demanding applications.

For more is video above.

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Internet Explorer 9 beta Chrome by another name ?

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September 20th, 2010

The long awaited replacement to IE8 looks like it is finally on the way, with better performance being the main bonus and support for HTML5 and CSS3 it promises to be Microsoft’s saviour in the browser wars. Or will it, its new minimalist look seems to be a direct copy of Google’s Chrome and even Opera, and the much touted ability to pin a site to the task bar will in my opinion not light up the lives of many Internet users.

Looks aside all many of you just require is a fast browser; and I thing Microsoft have pulled that off. Its not as fast as Opera put I think that will not be the case with the final product, as speed was a major factor in its design.

Overall I like the move in browsers away from cluttered toolbars and status bars, to a more clean look. So the new IE9 gets my vote there but speed in the beta at least is only fast when comparing it to IE8 not its competitors who are just as fast. Microsoft again playing catchup to its more innovative foes.

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How to reset a Blackberry Pearl

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July 7th, 2010

How to reset / wipe a BlackBerry Pearl Smart Phone.

  1. Backup your phone just in case you regret wiping it later.
  2. Click the Menu button to the left of the scroll ball, from the menu select Options.
  3. Using the scroll ball, scroll down to the Security Options menu.
  4. Then select the General Settings option.
  5. While in this option, click the menu button to the left of the scroll ball again.
  6. Scroll down to Wipe Handheld.

You will be asked to type the word “blackberry” to confirm the action.The phone will then restart and once powered up it will be like it did when you first switched it on.

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How to increase the Exchange 2003 Database size

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July 6th, 2010

Any of you still running Server 2003; and thats a lot of you may have come across this issue with the Exchange 2003 Server, where the database file size reaches it limit 19Gb. The Mailbox Store will dismount and although you can remount it, it will dismount again a short while later. You can increase the limit size by adjusting the registry as below.

1. Backup the registry, to find out how visit here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/

2. Open Regedit .

3. Find the following subkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\Server name\Private-Mailbox Store GUID

4.On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value

5. In the New Value box type ” Database Size Limit in Gb ” and press Enter

6. Right-click Database Size Limit in Gb, and then click Modify

7. Click Decimal, and then type an integer from 1 to 75 in the Value data box.
Note These integer values represent the maximum size of the database in gigabytes (GB). For example, a value of 75 represents a database that has a maximum size of 75 GB.
8. Click OK, and then exit Registry Editor.
9. Restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service. To do this, follow these steps:
10.Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.

At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:

net stop msexchangeis
After the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service has stopped successfully, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
net start msexchangeis

Examine the Application log to verify that the database size has been set successfully. To do this, follow these steps:
Click Start, click Run, type eventvwr, and then click OK.
In the Event Viewer tool, click Application.
Double-click event ID 1216 to verify that the database size has been set successfully.

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