November 2012 ESG Research Brief
Hey Spiceheads, have you read the November 2012 ESG Research Brief? The report shows that organizations with the largest amounts of disk-based storage to protect are the most likely to use tape. Big...
View ArticleApparently Wrestling gives out its wifi password
LMAO It only takes one technology geek/wrestling fan to notice The Wifi password is "J4nu4ry2013" on the back wall during a taping.
View ArticleWater Damaged Laptops - Next Steps
So, recently a sprinkler head had a catastrophic failure. This in turn blew all the heads in that particular section. This section also happened to be where 35 laptops had been setup to do a testing...
View ArticleSpiceWorld London meet-up?
Hello SpiceWorld London attendees! Curious if anyone is interested in having a SpiceCorps meet-up while they're in town? Depending on when the meet-up takes place, it could be a great way to meet...
View ArticleLooking for info on SysAdmins... survey.
Hey all, not sure if this is the most appropriate use of the community, but I have a friend in a local software company who is looking for some information on SysAdmins for marketing purposes (no, you...
View ArticleAD user with no details
I have a new user I created in AD that will only show the username and email in spiceworks. All other users show fine. I found an older thread about this issue and tried that workaround - changing the...
View ArticleWhich Windows 7 Profile is used for All New Users
I used to be able to do this in XP by configuring a specific profile (I don't remember the profile name) and then all subsequent users to login would get a copy of that profile as default.. Put...
View ArticleRestoring Windows7 from an Image backup
Problem: Unable to restore from a Windows7 Image Backup Solution: The image backup files have to be in a particular folder: :\WindowsImageBackup\\ in order for the Recovery CD to find them. Story: So...
View Articlelocalhost showing as name on ESX
Hi I have ESXi devices displaying localhost as the name after scan authentication These device all use the locahost name however they also have DNS names assigned to the IP of those ESX hosts. I can...
View ArticleCloud Storage WebDAV drive mapping on shared PC - Access is Denied either/or Use
I have a client that uses a cloud storage provider. They want two separate users to have access to their respective shared files on the same PC which maps an https WebDAV location and each user has...
View ArticleWhat is cloud computing? In just a few words.
I frequently hear people explain cloud computing with SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Which are the three delivery method and well discussed in http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf...
View ArticleConnect Computer to Wersi Organ
my Wersi organ has a RS 232 Connection port and i want it to connect to the computer via Usb. Any advice about the port since i have never used it before and a cable i bought doesent seem to be...
View ArticleGet trained on Spiceworks
Howdy guys and gals - SpiceTrainer Philip Moya - a fellow Texan - will coming to Austin Monday, March 4. During his visit, he will be teaching a full day of classes aimed at showing you how you can...
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Spiceworks training anyone?
Hello, India SpiceHeads! Todd here from Spiceworks University - the training arm of Spiceworks. We heard from many of you that Spiceworks training is something you guys really want :) So, we are...
View ArticleSophos UTM 320 or Barracuda f400 or WatchGuard XTM 545 or Sonicwall E5500 ?
I narrowed my choices to these UTM firewalls. Looking for something under $6k, good customer support, easy UI interface, excellent speed/performance, which one would you recommend? thanks in advance
View ArticleRAID speed and throughput vs. JBOD
On a JBOD SAS 6.0 Gbps 15k HDD, I have been getting speeds of 101.3 MB/s If I were to set up a 10 disk RAID0, would I effectively increase the speed to 1013 MB/s or would i run into overheads?
View ArticleK-12 Cloud Networking webinar tomorrow, featuring Milpitas USD
Hi Spiceheads! Check out this K-12 webinar TOMORROW, February 14 at 9am Pacific Time. Chin Song, Director of Technology at Milpitas USD in Silicon Valley, will share how cloud networking has helped...
View ArticleWhich databases work well with Visual Studio?
I am planning a project that is larger than our current Access databases can handle. I am fimiliar with Visual Studio(Currently using 2010 Premium), and would like to use it. For a database I...
View ArticleEmail ticket comments but not notes?
Is there a way to allow ticket comments to be emailed but not notes? Right now we do not have this feature checked off because we use the notes field for internal IT comments and updates for our...
View ArticleIs there any command line tools i can use to find out the OS of netwokr devices?
I've tried a few inventory scanners, but most of them either dont find all devices or they give back incorrect information.....wondering if there's a command line string I can execute to feed back...
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