Comptia A+ Home lab
Hi guys and girls I would like to set up a home lab for the A+ course. Could you please share with me what i would essentially have to purchase to get it up and running. Any contribution will be...
View ArticleIE Responds really slow... 2008R2 (32bit) Terminal Server
I recently upgraded my servers to VMWare 5.1, and installed office 2010. IE has come to a crawl. I am not sure if this has anything to do with 5.1, I was previously running 4.1. When a user opens a...
View ArticleLesson Learned: Adobe breach shows that web forum password storage needs to ...
According to Adobe’s blog, their popular conferencing software forum ConnectUsers.com has been breached through a SQL injection attack. Adobe has had to take it down, as they now go to rewrite the...
View ArticleOpening .xls file with Excel on Mac - wtf?
Ok so I am primarily in a Mac OSX environment. One of my users started receiving these excel spreadsheets from a vendor. She has Office 2010 installed on her Mac, but is unable to open this .xls file....
View ArticleTroubleshooting slow boot performance in Windows
I wanted to share this with everyone. It is a huge accomplishment at our university right now where we resolved a boot performance issue on our Windows 7 lab computers. Boot time, from cold boot to...
View ArticleWAN Load Balance & Domain Records for Emails
Hey Guys, My Sonicwall TZ 210 allows dual WAN with load balance, our current connection is an ADSL1 due to the physical location and is painfully slow. It allows Load Balance Via a Ratio, when X...
View ArticleDoes the first time you install Spiceworks require a server restart?
I plan to install Spiceworks on one of our servers but I am curious to know if it will require a restart after the installation has finished.
View ArticleGreat meeting last night!
I ended up working through the night after the meeting and didn't get a chance to post this after the meeting. I had a great time. Sorry to the guys who stayed till after 1am. *smile* I thoroughly...
View ArticleMy Friend George’s Analysis of VM Aware Vs. ZFS Storage for Tintri
It appears our brethren over at Tintri are feeling the pain of competing against ZFS based storage systems, and found it necessary to hire our friend George Crump at Storage Switzerland to write up a...
View ArticleRecycling User Accounts?
There is a discussion going on at work about recycling user accounts in Active Directory (Windows 2008 R2). I was told that it can be done frequently without any consequences. Is this true? For...
View ArticleSpiceworks is not showing my router as a device on my network
When I want to administer the route, I would use http://192.168.18.1:800/weblogin.htm, but when I ran Spiceworks to scan the network, it would not find my router. How do I correct this? Thank you
View ArticleIt’s time to value information that’s driving thirst for data analytics, say...
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View ArticleAttachment Button Link for Private Attachments
I was trying to add a private attachment to a ticket. I had a ticket open, clicked the Note option just above the ticket window, clicked inside the note text box (which expanded with no issues like...
View ArticleCracked passwords from the alleged 'Egyptian hacker' Adobe breach
An allegedly Egyptian hacker going by the name ViruS_HimA has allegedly hacked into Adobe. Wherever the data actually comes from, it reveals yet more poor password hygiene at both the client and the...
View ArticleJustdial consolidates its infrastructure with IBM Smarter Computing solution...
Under the project, IBM integrated IBM BladeCenter and IBM Storwize V7000 solutions to provide a scalable and reliable platform Read More
View ArticleCan i add AD users as technicians
I have imported all the active directory users, now i want to make some of the users as Technicians, and i want them to login to the spiceworks using their AD credentials and see what tickets are been...
View Article"The Apple Computer of toilets"
"The Apple Computer of toilets"http://priceonomics.com/toilets/#japanese
View ArticleIdentify network win 7, Vista cannot connect to LAN
Hello I have problem connecting Win7 and Vista machine to network, as soon as connect them to LAN, DHCP (2003) address leases listed BAD ADDRESS. However XP machines are fine. I rebuild win 7 and...
View Articleunknown numbers instead of user names in active directory sites and services
i went through many sites for troubleshooting but couldnt find out the exact way to troubleshoot this problem. Since this is a security tab of sites and services, i just cant delete or remove it from...
View ArticleKilts & Zombies
There are ... dangers to wearing a kilt if you're a zombie. (might be nsfw) BTW we still need more donations to reach our goal of Nic in a kilt.
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