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WSaxiomatica
AskWoody LoungerWhen an employee leaves or is terminated, what is your policy on the security of the email data on their phone, i.e. confidential emails and phone numbers? My organization doesn’t give employees phones, they use their personal phones. I have an Exchange 2010 SP1 server, and have the ability to remote wipe any phone that connects to my corporate mail server.
If I change their password when an employee leaves, is the email still readable on the Iphone/Android/Windows Phone, etc.? If it’s not accessible to the user, is it still at risk to be read by someone with mailicious intent? Ex. someone who tries to scrape data off the smart phone by browsing through the raw files in the phone memory?
Thank you,
Peter
IT AdministratorWho cares what you can do? If you don’t have an explicit legal agreement that permits you to interfere with data on a device I owned, you would find yourself in considerable legal difficulties. I would not hesitate to sue under the DMCA or any other law I could find.
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WSaxiomatica
AskWoody LoungerOutlook shutdown problems are usually as a result of an addin waiting for a response. That includes anti-virus products, synchronization software, third party toolbars, etc.
Joe
Apple, possibly among other vendors, has the annoying habit of adding Outlook add-ins without your consent or even a notification of the fact. Apple’s “iTunes Outlook Addin” will, in my experience, prevent Outlook from fully terminating, even though it’s window will disappear. In other words, this add-in will keep the Outlook process running in the background even when you think you have closed the application.
This behavior is entirely possible with any number of other add-ins and, since Apple adds its add-in silently and stealthily, you may never be aware that an Outlook add-in has been “added.”
I suggest that you run Outlook; go to the Tools menu; select the Options… command; click on the Other tab; click on the Advanced Options… button; and, finally, click on both the Add-In Manager… button and the COM Add-Ins… button (one at a time) to see what might have been installed without you knowing it. You may have to experiment with unchecking various add-ins to find out whether one of them is the culprit.
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WSaxiomatica
AskWoody LoungerAll of what appear to be folders but have what appears to be shortcut arrows are junction points. You can only see then after changing the system folders you can view. I have 9 of these junction points in my User Name folder alone. As Gerald states these are best left alone.
Some clarification might be useful. First, there are two different, but similar, beasts in Windows 7 (and Vista, I believe). The folders you refer to, with the shortcut arrows, are not technically junction points. They are soft links, which are similar to junction points but also different in some subtle technical ways.
Junction points have existed in Windows for a very long time and cannot be distinguished from regular folders in Windows Explorer. I believe previous posts are correct about various special folders created by the system being junction points. As stated, they are actually just “pointers” to some other regular folder.
A soft link is also a pointer to another folder, but is treated differently by Windows Explorer. First, the shortcut arrow appears on a soft link so users know that it is a link to some other folder. In other words, Windows Explorer “knows” that a soft link is a link, whereas Windows Explorer doesn’t “know” that a junction point is any different from a regular folder. It is only possible to distinguish a junction point from a regular folder using relatively low-level operating system functions. Most programs will be unaware that a junction point is not just a regular folder.
This actually makes messing about with junction points very dangerous (as I have learned the hard way), because Windows Explorer acts on the “contents” of the junction point just as if it were a regular folder. So, for example, if you delete a junction point via Windows Explorer, the junction point and everything that it “contains” is deleted. The real folder that the junction point references will still be there but it will be empty. I definitely don’t recommend deleting junction points that have been created by Windows, since this definitely breaks things. I once managed to delete my “Network Places” folder and had an awful time getting it recreated.
I suspect (but don’t actually know) that junction points were invented by Microsoft when they started littering the file system with their special folders, such as “My Documents”. I imagine they needed a way to fool Windows Explorer into making these new special folders act like the real folders being referenced and hacked in junction points to solve the problem.
Soft links, on the other hand, have existed on Unix systems for ages but it is only very recently that something more or less similar has become available on Windows. I have not messed about much with soft links on Windows, but I would hope that Windows Explorer is not quite so dumb about them. At the least, when you delete one, you know that some other folder might be affected.
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WSaxiomatica
AskWoody LoungerI have a win 7 laptop that occasionally is on my home network. Do I need to turn on ipv6 in zonealarm (i have the free version and the box to turn on ipv6 is there) even though I haven’t had any issues and my home network is not as complicated as the original poster’s (sorry forgot the username listed)
I do have the Teredo tunneling protocol listed under Network adapters in Device manager.
I and probably others could use some clarification about this Teredo and if it will affect every win 7 user at some point?
Great information by the way I’m sure it’ll be valuable to many users.
Thanks
I’m not an expert on IPv6, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. Frankly, I recommend you look at Woody Leonhard’s column that I mentioned (you can get to it from this thread: http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread//136658-Caution-Bumps-in-the-road-to-IPv6?highlight=Woody+IPv6). (If you aren’t a paid subscriber to Windows Secrets, shame on you.)
With that caveat out of the way, the simple answer to your question is a qualified “no.” IPv6 is not widely in use and there is a chicken-and-egg problem that contributes to its slow adoption. By the time you absolutely must have a machine that supports IPv6, Windows 7 will probably be history. If you aren’t actually having any problems that might be related to Home Groups, IPv6, etc. then don’t worry about the Teredo driver.
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WSaxiomatica
AskWoody LoungerThere is a point of clarification I should probably add concerning my previous post about the Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface.
When the device is not working, it is listed under the Network adapters node in Device Manager. Once you get it working, however, it may appear to disappear altogether.
This is because it becomes a hidden device once it is working. In the View menu of Device Manager, select Show hidden devices. It will reappear, listed as the Microsoft Teredo Tunneling Adapter.
Why it changes name, I do not know. But searches on the Web seem to indicate that the two are indeed the same thing.
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WSaxiomatica
AskWoody LoungerWoody Leonhard’s column “Caution: Bumps in the road to IPv6” (Windows Secrets, #281, 2011-03-17) includes an illustration that references “Teredo” in connection with IPv6. I’ve had the Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface device disabled on my Windows 7 machine since shortly after setting it up. I also was getting the error “This device is not started (Code 10),” but disabling the device caused no apparent problems.
I had no idea the Teredo device was associated with IPv6 until I read Woody’s column. I was finally prompted to investigate further. I did fix the problem (apparently), but not without going down a rabbit hole for a couple of hours. Fixing the problem is probably not for the faint of heart, since getting the Teredo device working led to a sequence of follow-on problems I had to resolve.
On the other hand, my local network is more complex than your average bear’s, with a Windows 2008 domain controller and Linux server, among other network-connected devices. Nonetheless, you have been warned.
The first issue to consider in fixing the Teredo device start-up problem is whether you have ZoneAlarm installed (see below if you don’t). It turns out that ZoneAlarm has an advanced setting that disables IPv6. You can refer to http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/41047-win7-64bit-teredo-tunneling-pseudo-interface-code-10-a.html, but I’m including the relevant information here (applies to ZoneAlarm Pro v. 9.3.014.000):
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[*]Open the ZoneAlarm GUI (double-click the ZoneAlarm icon in the task bar notification area).
[*]On the left-hand side, select Firewall. Under Firewall, select Main.
[*]On the lower-right side, click the Advanced button. An Advanced Settings dialog box will be displayed.
[*]In the Network Settings group of the dialog box, ensure the Enable IPv6 networking check box is checked. Click OK to close the dialog box.
[*]If you changed the setting, restart your computer. Use Device Manager after the restart to see whether the Teredo device warning is gone.If you don’t have ZoneAlarm, or if this procedure doesn’t fix your problem, updating the driver has been reported to fix the problem (see http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues/thread/493e48fb-9e9b-4319-8f5b-21d0645169bd/). I didn’t have to do this, so I can’t comment on it. It is safer than the next option you have, however, so I recommend trying it before going on.
As a final possibility, there is a registry setting you can investigate. This is actually where I began my troubleshooting, before I discovered that ZoneAlarm’s IPv6 setting will just overwrite any change that’s made. The following information comes from http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/teredo-tunneling-pseudo-interface-this-device/757db042-c91e-464c-b963-c1f442fdf925. Please don’t mess around with your registry unless you know exactly what you are doing.
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[*]Run RegEdit. I’m going to assume you know how, since you are heeding my caution about knowing what you are doing.
[*]Find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetservicesTCPIP6Parameters key.
[*]Check the value of the DWORD value DisabledComponents. If the value is 0x000000FF, change it to 0x00000000. (Note: If it is neither of these values, you are on your own, because I have no idea what else it might affect.)
[*]If you changed the setting, restart your computer. Use Device Manager after the restart to see whether the Teredo device warning is gone.And now for the follow-on problems you might encounter.
Immediately after messing about with the registry and ZoneAlarm, I was dismayed to find that I was no longer able to access a shared folder that was hosted on my Windows Server 2008 domain controller. I have no idea why, but deleting the share and recreating it resulted in the share becoming visible again to the Windows 7 machine.
Now, however, the share was visible but I was being denied access to sub-folders within it. The permissions for the sub-folders were supposed to be inherited from the folder at the root of the shared folder tree. I tried re-applying the permissions, forcing them to be propagated down to all sub-folders. This didn’t work, so I finally restarted the domain controller. Voila, things seem to be back to normal.
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