We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You'll notice we didn't put things like "we're wicked smart" or "we're great haxors". We tried t ...[Read More]

By Robert Dick today…   I had real fun with a DELL R300 server after a motherboard replacement.  Learned bunches but first a little background.     What originally went wrong?     The Dell R300 "lost" the MAC addresses on the tw ...[Read More]

I guess it's been out a few weeks now, but tonight I was introduced to WYSE PocketCloud for the iPhone. At the moment (sale?) is it a $20 app (looks to be $30 in October) and for that price, I had to have it and try it. So, I did. And gosh darned ...[Read More]

We ran into this in our office and we have a workaround.   Issue:   After upgrading from Vista to Windows 7, our VMware Workstation (and VMware Player) installs no longer functioned properly. When we would go to start our virtual machines, w ...[Read More]

Thanks to Robert from our office for this visual walkthrough of the ESX4 patching process, when you don't have Virtual Center.    ESXi 4 hosts can be patched using the GUI tool VMHostUpdate. ESX4 hosts, on the other hand, have to be patched manuall ...[Read More]

I'm so happy. I'm running the Windows 7 Release Candidate solely on my production machine and I must say, besides the odd IE8 crash (which happens on any windows machine it seems, though one would have hoped IE would have matured more with IE8) and ...[Read More]

If you have played with VMWare ESXi for a while and tried to monitor the underlying hardware with any degree of success (SNMP), give it up.  Although the future looks a little brighter with HP providing some functionality with ‘their’ version of E ...[Read More]

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ...[Read More]

BackupExec 12.5 does support agents for backing up ESXi, the kicker is you need to have additional software from VMware in order for the agent to work. As things sit today, you use agents to backup Windows regardless of whether or not the Windows ...[Read More]

Holy Cow. Lame (and probably in SBS and EBS 2008 I bet).   Hibernate is on by default in Windows Server 2008 and creates a hiberfil.sys file, the size of your pagefile/RAM, on the system drive (usually C:).  This meant tonight, I discovered our Ex ...[Read More]