Oh gawd. The world is running out of IP Addresses and according to some, it happened 2+ years ago. Meh. But, IPv6 is coming and of course, Windows for a long time now has had native support for it. The challenge is, with DNS registrations, quite often you’ll get the IPv6 response from a ping, [...]
If there’s one thing small business owners like, it’s doing things for themselves. After all, not only did they start their own companies, but many have learned that working as your own bookkeeper, salesperson, or even janitor can be a great way to save on billable hours. Can the same thing work for IT or [...]
If you suffer from having many network bindings like I do (several VPN clients and a need to tinker), getting to the appropriate options is buried in Windows 7. So, I thought I’d spell it out quick. 1. In your Network and Sharing Center, choose “Change Adapter Settings” 2. Choose Organize, Layout, Menu Bar 3. [...]
Someone asked today what/how we name our servers (what is the logic behind it?). Here’s an illustration which breaks it down visually: Some of the benefits of this convention include: Consistency Sorting Identifying locations and assets Easy to remember Incoming search terms:server naming conventionsserver namingserver naming conventionbrain littersharepoint server naming conventions
We’ve had a number of calls in the last week (probably 4, would swear it is the same woman even). After yelling at her a few times and/or being outright mean and cruel (she doesn’t get sympathy…), tonight I thought I’d play along and record it. I missed the beginning as I was on the [...]
itgroove Recommendations from the Field The following are recommendations from itgroove for Server (virtual or physical plant) Best Practices. Customers may not always listen or have the budget, but it won’t stop us from trying to protect them… Redundant Power Supplies – protect yourself against a single point of failure UPS – (Uninterruptable Power Supply) [...]
What can I say? I prefer nice blue event logs when I check the health of my servers. This helps draw my attention (eyes) to the reds and yellows that might appear. And because I, like most others, connect to these servers via RDP (Remote Desktop), I end up with a bunch of clutter in [...]
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 to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to [...]
Today from Louis Warren… Another pesky Windows issues bites the dust! I have had a few laptops lately that have ran into stop errors or have been corrupted by spyware and will not boot into windows or any combination of safe mode. I then go and insert the appropriate XP CD and do an [...]
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 twin onboard NIC’s and we couldn’t get them back. ESXi lost its networking [...]
