Recently a client asked me to lend them a hand with a Cisco IP Phone 7940 that was haning during the boot process. After some quick research online, I determined that a reset on the device was needed, and the process is really simple. Begin by unplugging the phone and then reconnecting the power. As … Read more
Virtualization Lab: Part 1 – The Basics Many people are wondering what virtualization is really all about, and for good reason. In this multi-part series, I will take the virtualization novice from the ground up to a working lab/light production system. I’ll start with a bit of a rant: It seems that people on the … Read more
We recently purchased Kaseya and needed a better server to put it on. After deciding to setup Kaseya as a VM on a ESX host and a little capacity planning, I determined that a new server would be needed. After getting the corporate overlords to approve, I ordered up a new Dell PowerEdge R610 with … Read more
We recently purchased Kaseya One for MSP’s and I have been engaged in many hours of training and configuring this week. One of the more interesting topics that were covered during the Kaseya Boot Camp training was scripting. Simply put, Kaseya is scripting. Script this, script that, and things that appear to just be menu … Read more
Many of my clients are getting the newer E series Dell Latitudes. The laptops seems pretty decent but they all come with the Dell ControlPoint software. The ControlPoint software aims to centralize the management of the systems settings. While I am unfamiliar with the overall usefulness of the ControlPoint software, I do know that the … Read more
I have been updating some of my Visio diagrams lately and wanted to use stencils that were more realistic and stumbled upon these Dell provided stencils. Just follow the link below. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pvaul/topics/en/visio?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=gen Enjoy. –Himuraken
If you have ever had to join a pre-existing user/profile to a Windows domain, then you certainly know the pain that comes with migrating the old profile. Very few users find new (read clean) profiles very entertaining. So most people copy the contents of the previous profile’s folder to the new one. That approach does … Read more
My Google Alert for open source items is working overtime these days. Clearly open source is invading every part of our lives. That is exciting! Some of the opponents to open source in production networks claim that lack of reliable support makes open source a bad idea. However, in many (or even most) cases, support … Read more