Best Practice – PC Printer Connection Configurations
Printer issues, printer issues, printer issues. If you have ever set up printers in your workplace, you know they are nothing but helpdesk ticket generators. Here are some…
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PSA: Protect your WordPress Site
I have woken up before and NOT found my website and have been horrified! This is what I thought of when I saw a fellow creator's tweet about…
Upgrade EMC/Dell VxRail Best Practices (4.7.100 to 4.7.301)
Time for another VXRail upgrade post! This time we are upgrading from VxRail 4.7.100-11859441 to 4.7.301-26249014. This will bring the underlying vSphere environment up to version 6.7 Update…
How to upgrade UCS firmware
This week I spent some time upgrading UCS firmware for a client’s infrastructure. All the firmware. The BIOS, Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC), the MLOM (Management Lights out…
Preventing a hung XD session from breaking Storefront DDC Load balancing
Chris Hahn sent over an incident that happened at a client recently. Using findings from XenDesktop Scout and Storefront Event logs, Chris was able to troubleshoot a sporadic…
Don’t put those DCs on your Shared Storage! (If you are running Hyper-V)
I had a client call me in a complete panic recently with their entire environment completely down. It was a real world example of a lesson learned the…
Lessons learned: Data Migrations (VMs or otherwise)
Whether you are moving files, Virtual Machines or other types of data from SAN to SAN or LUN to LUN, there are a few guiding principles that can…
Trivial FTP – Not so Trivial in a Citrix Provisioning Environment.
If you have played around with Citrix Provisioning services, you will quickly realize that the TFTP Service can be a pretty big single point of failure. The TFTP…
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 released.
I love Microsoft Security Essentials. I love the integration, ease of updating, protection and the price! For an application as utilitarian as virus scanning, free is a great…