So I recently came across a situation where we wanted to boot a blade off of an EqualLogic SAN via the installed Intel X-520 10gbe mezzanine cards. With Broadcom it's easy, you just enable iSCSI boot to Broadcom in the BIOS, and set it up...
Recently I was asked by a client to attend the annual Trucking Industry Defense Association (TIDA) in Las Vegas to speak about mobile device security in the workplace. This event is attended by hundreds of lawyers each year who represent the trucking industry in various...
Just recently my company decided to shift our networking hardware sales and implementation to Astaro Security Solutions. For the last several years we have been strong supporters of SonicWall firewalls. SonicWall has offered nearly all of the solutions Interworks needed to facilitate solutions over the...
I recently had to find out a way to cleanup files in a folder that was growing based upon the date that they were originally created. These log files needed to be kept for 3-4 months in case they need to be reviewed for verification. ...
We utilize Veeam's Backup & Replication product for local backups as well as offsite DR replication. The software is overall very good, but can have some quirks if things don't go as planned. One issue we hit is longer-running replica jobs might conflict with local...
The Apple iPhone 4S debuts this month and Apple is hoping to gain ground on Google. Android continues to impress, as it posted the greatest percentage of growth with 5.6% from May 2011 – August 2011. iOS growth was only an estimated .7% during the...
Here is a handy command to find out computer memory details from a command prompt so you don't have to open up the computer. Go to, Start, Run (or click the Windows Orb-Search on newer Windows versions), type in CMD, then in the command prompt enter: wmic...
During a recent troubleshooting stint, a collegue of mine was scratching his head as to why a machine would not seem to boot. We were getting no POST codes (or boot beeps, or whatever you call them), no video, etc. We WERE getting lights on...
The dreaded, "No Service" message. You have no voice, no data, no communication at all with the outside world!!!! Ok, so maybe it's no all that bad, but what do you do when you get this message, you need to make a call, and you have...
So we've started messing with Astaro devices, and oddly enough I've had the pleasure of locking myself out of it somehow already. One way to reset the password is to reinstall it, another way is to reset the "root" password which will allow you full...
After a recent MS update, I had a user that ran into issues with a legacy application saving all the documents created into a new Virtual Directory and it effectively broke the application. Windows 7 created a new Virtual Directory in this location: C:Users*current logged in...
Needing to see the computer description under the network properties on a newer Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Server 2008 computer? When you look at the network options you can only see the following options to add: There is no option to enable or add the...
How to create a VPN connection to your office with Windows XP, Vista, 7 or even Macintosh Before going home: You will need to verify/acquire the following information from your network administrator: The IP address or DNS name of your VPN server _____________________________________ Your Username that you use...
“Traditional backup software does not understand virtualization.” – David M. Davis. Tomorrow marks the launch of a new FREE learning site, BackupAcademy.com, which offers a fundamental view of how virtualization works with relations to backup and replication strategies. The site is sponsored by Veeam and is...
I recently had a user that when he opened up Quickbooks, he could only log in as admin. The username box to enter another user account was not shown. The issue with this is that the qbw32.exe service gets hung and even though the program is...
I came across this today when decomissioning an Exchange 2007 in a 2007-2010 migration. After uninstalling the primary roles, it moves to removing the "Exchange files", which are the Exchange Management files. At this point it will get stuck indefinitely and the timer will keep...
I came across this issue today where opening a network file caused Excel 2003 to hang or crash. Opening the file locally worked normally. Removing security updates KB2541025 and KB2502789 immediately resolved the issue. Credit Technet: Link...
Recently I came across a computer that was getting a bluescreen every time it booted up unless it was booted into safe mode. I traced the problem to a particular program but when I tried to uninstall it in safe mode, I was unabe to...
In my years as a computer guy, I've seen some pretty unusual things done with and to computers. I've been around long enough to see CD-Roms used as cup holders, 3.5" floppies jammed in backwards, entire soda's dumped into keyboards, and once, a space heater...
I've decided to deviate from my blog-posting standard in two different areas today. First, I'm going to actually post this, which goes against the norm for me. Second, I'm going to talk about some underlying network theory instead of a break/fix review. The OSI Model When network...
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