The general support timeframe for VMware vSphere 5.5, including both ESXi and vCenter, ends later this year – specifically, September 19. That might not seem close, but a few months can burn by quickly in the IT world. While there are some options for extended...
I've recently worked with several migrations of on-premises Microsoft Exchange to Office 365. Whenever the mail server moves off-site, some on-site services must be reconfigured in order for it to work properly again. Things like scan-to-email from multifunction printers and voicemail-to-email from VoIP servers require...
On today’s Webcast Friday, I got to talk in part on the capabilities of the Cloud, but mostly wanted to showcase the versatility of Office 365. InterWorks is a proud partner of Microsoft, and we enjoy and utilize Office 365 on a regular basis. So,...
Many of us heavily rely on our digital calendars to organize our schedules, and with those often come third-party conferencing products such as Webex, GoToMeeting and a myriad of others services to help accommodate these needs. However, we recently came across an issue where one of...
In Microsoft Exchange, you may have received these error messages: "The signature is too big. Please try a smaller format." "The Property X is out of range, the valid range is x to x." "The length of the property is too long. The maximum length is 8000 and the...
About two weeks ago, InterWorks was once again asked to speak at a lunch and learn event where I presented on digital forensics and its application at an organization level. But what exactly is digital forensics? Digital forensics, also known as computer forensics, is probably a...
Yesterday, Veeam released the anticipated Veeam Backup and Replication version 9 and VeeamOne version 9. Veeam 9 releases a host of new features aimed at improving functionality, scalability and administration. These include but are not limited to the new scale-out backup repository, the new BitLooker (ability...
When utilizing backup products, one consideration many businesses forget to address is to make sure that the backup configuration is documented or that there is a backup for the configuration. This shortcoming, observed by many backup products, has been addressed by Veeam by providing a...
After performing a reboot on an ESXi 6.0 server, and in some cases upgrading to version 6.0, I noticed the following error for a few of my ESXi hosts: "Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host. Please consider upgrading volume(s) to the latest version" I proceeded to...
With Windows 2012 / Windows 2012R2 now offering a way to failover DHCP, many organizations have opted to migrate their DHCP functions from an older operating system. There are multiple, creative ways to handling a migration from an old server a new server; this article...
Although Microsoft Windows Server 2003R2 went end-of-life on July 14, 2015, many business are still mid-process of upgrading to newer operating systems. Similar to installing 2003/R2 and 2008/R2, a 2012 or 2012R2 installation is fairly straight forward. This article explains how to install the DHCP role on...
As technology has evolved in the IT sector, many businesses are transitioning to newer, redundant systems. These include redundancy through a RAID on a server or storage area network (SAN), computing redundancy (RAM/CPU) through virtualization and redundancy due to manufacturers incorporating field-replaceable units (FRUs) to...
I recently wrote a blog detailing how awesome the Nutanix Community Edition was for the partner community. In that article, I point out how amazing it is for Nutanix to give partners an inexpensive way to learn and demo their product. The only hard part...
We continue to be a very satisfied customer and partner of DataGravity. Just this week, we were saved in a big way by our DataGravity Discovery Series storage array. First off, I'll provide a little context around the issue. The Issue: Virtual Machines Offline We upgraded our...
Back in early September, some of the InterWorks IT team and I were fortunate enough to attend VMworld 2015 in San Francisco, CA. For those of you who don’t know, VMworld is VMware’s annual conference on virtualization. This year, 35,000 people attended the six-day event which absorbed...
Nutanix Community Edition was released on June 8. It is a free, community-supported edition of the Nutanix platform that can be installed on most hardware. Needless to say, the techs here at InterWorks were extremely excited to test it out. We instantly started looking for...
During a VDI deployment with VMware Horizon, I discovered that one of the applications in the environment was saving important user information inside the ProgramData folder. Even though the end-user was utilizing persistent disks, the ProgramData folder by default gets saved on the C-drive and...
Every once in a while, new technologies come along that alter your thinking. In 1982, the spreadsheet radically changed how everyone created budgets. In 2007, Tableau Software changed the way I looked at data. For the first time, the hardware had enough power to analyze large...
Things have been extremely busy at InterWorks lately and I haven't hit my blog series on the DataGravity Discovery Series array in awhile. Our storage system is fully in production and is purring along quite well, and I intend to allocate more time moving forward to...
In the last decade, there has been a profound change of expectations in the world of IT. Applications are expected to have no down time while at the same time having minimal to no loss of data. Thanks to virtualization and discoveries in technology, it is now...
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