Your IT Catchphrase / Eureka. Best + Worst
So what's your's ? After night of coding/solving what do you shout ? Or when a (L)user comes calls in with another problem that has to be fixed NOW! I usally go for the easy: Shebang ( #! ) , Holy GNU...
View ArticleWin7 workstation not resolving hostnames
I have one Win7 machine that won't resolve \hostname but \12.34.56.78 works just fine. No other machines on the network are displaying this issue. My best plan of action (reboot) failed to fix the...
View ArticleMigrating a win2003 STD to a SBS2011 STD. What should I know?
First, i did my homework. I've read this documents and done the prerequisite task and such. I've also read about the specific migration information from w2003 STD, and not w2003 SBS. There is no...
View ArticleHelp Setting up a Openfire server with SSO.
Hi, i am trying to get SSO for our jabber clients in the company. Have any of you guys managed to get SSO in an Active Directoy environment? i have gone trough all the tutorials in the openfire forum...
View ArticleWAP keeps dropping it's clients/failing to connect them
We have an access point (TP_LINK WA701ND) in our office. It will periodically lose connectivity to the network. We have a WVS4000 connected to the internet with a cheep asus gigabit switch connected to...
View ArticleDeltacom / Earthlink SE Outage?
Anyone else experiencing issues? Our phone systems are down. Deltacom / Earthlink chat is down. And I can't get through to their Tech Support line - 1-800-239-3000 submitted by jmoleary [link] [1 comment]
View ArticleWhat's the best way to back up multiple servers to tape for off-site storage?
Is it possible with one autoloader, backing up a few RAID volumes on different servers to the same tape? Or a separate tape drive for each server? Small company, 21 users. Full backup overnight mon-fri...
View ArticleAccounting, Sales, CRM, ERP, etc. software recommendations for...
Our company uses a fair amount of small-business software: Peachtree Quantum for accounting, Commence for sales CRM, a home-grown PHP/MySQL app for tech-support CRM, RT for internal workflow tracking...
View ArticleExchange 2010 - Migrating from hosted POP3
I've recently installed a new Exchange 2010 server and will be moving our primary MX records on Jan 1. I'm changing our primary outgoing smtp domain at the same time. I've got the new domain working...
View ArticleCold called to sell you printer supplies
Have any other sysadmins gotten a call asking info on what type of copier or printer that you have, then later get a call from a sales person wanting to send you a sample? So the sale scam goes like...
View Articlecooling in a poorly ventilated server room
I am looking for a portable A/C unit, with ducting included, to cool off a server room. This is not a datacenter, there are 3 rack servers, a tower server, and a couple of tower desktops. Ambient temps...
View ArticleMSP's - How do you manage multiple VPN connections?
I work as an MSP for a fairly small but stable company (2 person company with 20 years in business serving clients with 2-30 or so users). A dozen or so of our clients have expressed interest in having...
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Not your typical Monday error message... need some help!
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View ArticleHow do you deal with assessing power consumption?
We had a huge problem last Friday (on goddamn read-only Friday!) when someone crushed a power pole in their car across the street from our manufacturing plant. We lost power instantly, but we have...
View ArticleLooking for suggestions/input for future: What can I improve with what I did...
Over the weekend had a job for a local business setting up a small network . It's a school, so their environment was pretty simple. One DC (Server 2008 R2) acting file-server, ~20 or so desktops...
View ArticleFuck you, Dell.
This is an automated email sent from Dell Chat. The following information is a log of your session. Please save the log for your records. Your session ID for this incident is (removed). Time Details...
View ArticleLittle known or under-appreciated open source gems that other sysadmins...
Every so often I'll find something perfect for my needs, but its not very popular. Today I wanted to work on a basic dumbed down webftp client and after dealing with a lot of fails I found Oliver. So,...
View ArticleExchange 2010 SP1: Apply RU6 or upgrade to SP2?
Those of you running Exchange 2010 SP1, will you be applying RU6 or upgrading to SP2? Exchange 2010 SP2 contains all of the fixes from the SP1 RU6 update and some additional features: Hybrid...
View ArticleLooking for suggestions for an FTP/HTTPS file server for sharing files to...
I am looking for a FTPS/HTTPS file server solution to deploy in our DMZ to allow us to share documents and reports with other companies. I am looking for it to run on Windows Server 2008 R2. Must have...
View ArticleFound a rogue device and have a few questions.. (x-post from asknetsec)
Came across an email from a our "provider" network's noc that we have a virus coming from with in our network.. we cant have them assist for political reasons, but I tracked down the computer to...
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