InterWorks’ very own Systems Engineer, Ideen Jahanshahi was named “The Best Veeam Engineer in the World, 2014” last month. The title sounds lofty, but it comes directly from Veeam themselves. What’s more is that he earned it by competing against several of the industry’s best...
This post is an upgrade to my original 3 Way Venn post, or at least is a better alternative as it gives the right numbers loads faster and is easier to make! This method doesn't use sets or anything complicated within Tableau but rather it uses a...
Keith Johnson and I just finished wrapping up the 2014 Ruckus Big Dogs Conference two weeks ago, and it was a doozy. Some of you might remember last year’s conference in sunny Miami. Ruckus Wireless came through again this year with another dynamite location: Las...
Setup I recently ran into this problem when deploying templates of Windows Server 2012 inside of VMware. The template machine had been pre-configured by another engineer that made use of Windows Search during setup under the local Administrator account. When sysprepping the image, we utilized a profile...
I'm putting this here as a reference for myself and anyone else that frequently uses Robocopy. The following Robocopy command is my go to for most cases. If you don't use Robocopy, I highly recommend it as the command line tool to automate file copy/sync...
As per usual, we’ve been pretty busy here at InterWorks lately. 2014 has brought record growth in the form of new clients, markets, events and dozens of new InterWorks team members across the world. Even though our reach is becoming increasingly global, our dedication to...
Datto has a number of options for a bare metal restore. The most obvious options are listed when you go to start a bare metal restore from the Datto Web UI, USB or PXE. The following is a step-by-step guide on how to perform a...
If you are looking for an exhaustive collection of Dell drivers for their PowerEdge, PowerVault or C-Series hardware, look no further: http://poweredgec.com/ This is a Dell-maintained site that collects drivers for basically all of their servers in the PowerEdge line, including the C-Series and PowerVault. I've recently...
Once vShield and the Symantec Security Virtual Appliance have been successfully deployed in an environment, the VDI policy that the SVA is using (see the Deploying vShield with the Symantec Security Virtual Appliance for where this was set) will need to be configured. This article is...
As the IT industry continues to be ever-changing, and server virtualization attains an even stronger foothold in your typical environment, desktop virtualization is not far behind. Once reserved for larger scaled environments, it’s now not uncommon to find a small business with only five users...
So, you finally decided to virtualize your desktops. Plus, you want to reuse your old desktops as Thin clients. You’re not alone. This kind of thing happens all the time, and there are options for you. My favorite so far is the use of Windows...
With the growth of virtualization, several vendors are now creating easy-to -deploy virtual appliances utilizing the open virtualization format template (OVF template), which are distributed as an OVA package. In the past, these templates could easily be deployed utilizing the VMware vSphere Desktop Client. With...
When trying to assign an IP address to a virtual machine that was recently migrated to another vCenter instance, I noticed that the IP address had swapped to DHCP. When trying to reconfigure the IP address on the system, the following message appeared: Additionally, I had...
Using thin-provisioned volumes is a great way to optimize resources in a virtual environment. This can be applied at both the hypervisor level as well as the storage area network level. When utilizing both a VMware and EqualLogic (EQL) volume, in cases where both volumes...
For virtual machines to be able to check in to the Symantec Security Virtual Appliance, they must have Endpoint Security (EPSEC) 2.0 drivers. If Symantec Endpoint Protection is deployed on to a virtual machine with the correct policy, but without the EPSEC drivers, the Security...
With a VMware infrastructure, one application that can add a large amount of footprint on an environment is the antivirus solution. Since many of the operating system files in a VMware environment, particularly VMware Horizon View, are redundant, one of the best ways to reduce...
When deploying a virtualized desktop environment, virtual machines are deployed from a golden template. This allows the management from a central image that is shared across a group of virtual machines. If a traditional anti-virus solution were to be deployed in a virtual desktop environment...
As virtualization continues to grow in popularity, many vendors are now creating easy-to-deploy virtual appliances for their products. Virtual appliances can be deployed by deploying an open virtualization format template (OVF Template), which is typically distributed as an OVA package. This article explains how to deploy...
When deploying the Symantec Security Virtual Appliance on an ESXi host, one of the requirements for installation is you must have access to the sylink.xml file. This file configures communication with Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Server. This article provides instructions on how to export those...
One of the more common ways organizations choose to address security on computers is to restrict what USB devices can be utilized within an environment. Depending on the program, there are a number of ways in which devices can be identified and filtered. In most...
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