Tech News
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2025 The Year of “End of Life”
While there is an unusual wide range of software titles scheduled for end of life in 2025 there are also numerous hardware appliances also scheduled for end of life in 2025. Looking back historically we don’t believe this record number of software and hardware instances scheduled for end of life has ever occurred in a […]
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The new Areca ARC-1686-2NOD
For the past two weeks we have enjoyed getting familiar with a true Raid adapter for NVMe M.2 drives. This “2NOD” model will host just 2 drives but they do offer a “4NOD” & “6NOD” model for larger drive arrays. We took time to try this newly available offering from Areca in a few different […]
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Microsoft releases impressive July 2022 Security Patch
Microsoft released a new round of updates (KB5015807) to address 84 new security flaws spanning many product categories, including a zero-day vulnerability that’s under active attack in the wild. Out of 84 security flaws 4 are rated Critical, and 80 are rated Important in severity. Another two other bugs are in the Chromium-based Edge browser, […]
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Windows 10 VPN Client February 2022 – Steps to fix
We recently noticed many clients reporting issues with their Windows built in Microsoft VPN Client no longer connecting. The VPN Client displays the message “Can’t connect to VPN. The L2TP connection attempt failed because the security layer encountered a processing error during initial negotiations with the remote computer” In the Application event log errors from […]
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McAfee Definition Version 10234 and higher
We have confirmed recently released versions of McAfee’s definition files detects Screen Connect or ConnectWise Control products as “UnWanted Programs”. We are told previous detections from the McAfee team have detected these products as “RDN/ScreenConnect” and another incident detecting them as “ScreenConnect”. Today we can confirm they have changed the detection name to “ConnectWise”. All […]
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Microsoft Windows Servers effected by January Update
It appears we have noticed another problematic Microsoft update but this time its effecting Windows Server 2012R2, 2019 and 2022 versions. Calls have mainly been about Server 2012R2 and only a few about the new 2019 and 2022 versions. We found removing the updates appears to be the only work around and it does require […]
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After installing update KB5008212, Outlook messages are missing from the search results
After installing update KB5008212, Outlook emails are missing from the Outlook search results. This update was released on January 5, 2022 and as of January 13, 2022 we have witnessed it is still being installed via the Windows Update Service. The status of when this update might be pulled from the Microsoft update pool is […]
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Windows 10 VPN Client broken via KB5009543
January 12, 2022 off to a busy start! Calls and emails have been pouring in today from Windows 10 and 11 users reporting issues with their Windows Built in VPN Client not allowing them to connect to VPN resources. We have seen this a few times now and it appears a new Microsoft update is […]
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Shortages in laptops and desktops could possibly last all of 2021
Shortages in laptops and desktops could possibly last all year. Anthony Spadafora over at Tech Radar reports supply chain shortages in laptops and desktops could possibly last until 2022. He tells us getting your hands on a new laptop or desktop in 2021 could be slightly trickier as the market responds to a major surge […]
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Secret Backdoor Account Found in Several Zyxel Firewall, VPN Products
Zyxel has released a patch to address a critical vulnerability in its firmware concerning a hardcoded undocumented secret account that could be abused by an attacker to login with administrative privileges and compromise its networking devices. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 (CVSS score 7.8), affects version 4.60 present in wide-range of Zyxel devices, including […]