Big Infographic for Your Office or Rec Room Wall
Did you know 54% of companies that invested in cloud computing gained new revenue streams? IBM has created a new infographic that uses customer references, customer benefits and results from the IBM...
View ArticleDeploy PAC file via GPO
I'm deploying my Barracuda as a forward proxy. I've got the cuda all setup, and if I plug in the proxy address in IE manually, everything works and the cuda redirects/blocks the specified categories...
View ArticleGeneral Network Question
We are currently on a 192.168.5.x setup at work and are running out of ip's as we have over 250 devices computers, laptops, servers, san, nas, cameras, just tons of stuff. I'm still new to networking...
View ArticleLightSwitch or Visual Basic? A Newbie
I've been the solo IT guy at a medium size metal building company for a while. I've gotten high marks and their supreme trust in my skills. While my strengths are in administration, backups, DR and...
View ArticleDisable TOE on Broadcom NICs in Windows Server 2008 R2 and VMWare ESXi 5.1
In my quest to identify network slowness during large file transfers or imaging 1 PC at a time via Server 2008 R2 WDS, I have come across the suggestions of many to disable TOE features on the NIC and...
View ArticleDual Monitor Stands
I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for Dual Monitor stands. A VIP is getting a new setup, and wants a landscape oriented large monitor (probably 27" Acer, but maybe 32") and a portrait...
View ArticleSteam Halloween sale
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/halloweensale_2012 Pretty much every scary or monster oriented game they could scrounge up is on sale.
View ArticleBest way to solve low file server disk space issue?
So I know this should be easy for some. And although I've been in IT for a very long time, some more in depth things are still hard for me. We have a situation where our file & print server is...
View ArticleChange hyperlinked text displayed in powershell
I'm sending out emails with Powershell. Part of the email has a link to a file on the network. I'd like to change the hyperlink to something shorter and more user-friendly. Here is the code for the...
View Articlefaxfinder coverpage
does anyone know how to create or have a fax cover page I can tweak to use in the fax finder program I have some PDF but they do me know good unless you can actually put in the from, pages, fax name,...
View ArticleThe device, \Device\Harddisk0, has a bad block. Third time in 9 months.
My Win2003 server is reporting "The device, \Device\Harddisk0, has a bad block." for the third time in 9 months. The last two times I replaced both drives. I'm thinking I have a bad controller? It's...
View ArticleGetting Backup Exec 2012 to play nice with a BlackArmor 440 NAS
I've been wrestling with Backup Exec 2012 and getting it to back up to a Blackarmor 440 NAS. It's been fun from the start. I made the decision and I'm sure it'll be great once it's up and running. I...
View ArticleI'm seeking a copy of NEC dterm softphone SP30.
We've recently become interested in possibly using a softphone for our org. We currently have and NEC 2000 PBX which is configured to support VOIP as we do have three IP phones on our network. In...
View ArticleDoes anyone know how to assign a location to a device based on a rule?
We have two sites and I was wondering if there was an easy way to assign a device to a location. For example if said device is in a certian IP range then the location would be set to Location1,...
View ArticleWeekly Links - October 29
Happy Monday! This week in Weekly Links...Find out why admins should know how to code, Gartner's Top 10 IT trends, the security reality of Road Warriors, and more. Check out 5 Links for IT Admins!
View ArticleReasonably Priced Firewall/VPN for 25 users.
Just looking for some community advice on a purchase for next quarter -- I need to get rid of a 2003 R&RA system and replace it with a decent rackmount firewall/VPN combo. It's the primary...
View Articleremove field from ticket
is there a way to remove the default fields from a ticket (eg Assigned to, Due Date, ect)?
View ArticleAdd list to default fields
Is there a way to make the default fields into a list and modify them? For example, I want a drop down list for "Summary"
View ArticleEnter our Journey to Your Cloud Makeover Contest to win a $100,000 IT makeover
You only have a few more days to enter our Journey to Your Cloud Makeover contest. Give a two-minute pitch from your PC, tablet or mobile device cam on why your IT deserves a makeover and you could be...
View ArticleSetting holidays and time schedules on Elastix?
Trying to set up holidays on our new Elastix system. On our Nortel BCMs, there's a section called Holidays that you can enter in the date and time of the holidays and be done with it... in Elastix...
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