IT Knowledgebase Articles

Microsoft’s Office 365 is an entirely different approach to their software model, putting the Office suite and server products into the cloud. Because this is such a leap from what we’ve been doing for decades, you may be wondering if it’s the right solution for your company. In this post, Michael Simmons shows you how to set up Microsoft’s free 30 day trial which you can set up on your own domain. Is Office 365 right for you? Try it out and see!

In part 2 of this two-part video series, Jason Nash of TrainSignal finishes his lesson on configuring Cisco UCS Service Profile Templates. Specifically, in this post Jason covers setting up vNIC/vHBA placement policies. This relatively new feature allows you to set up policies that determine how PCI devices are ordered on system boot-up.

In Part 5 of Peter De Tender’s series on installing System Service Manager 2012, Peter explains how to configure the Active Directory Connector. With the AD Connector configured properly, SCSM is able to synchronize data from Active Directory.

In part 3 of Micahel Simmons’ series on crash dump analysis, Michael finally dives into the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) by using the Windows Debugger (WinDbg). There is a lot of information to be had in these memory dumps and Michael will show you how to find out what Windows is trying to tell us about your unhealthy computer.

In today’s post, Eric Siebert discusses I/O storage bottlenecks, perhaps the most vulnerable part of a VM in terms of potential performance loss. Eric demonstrates how to use vCenter Server and exstop to troubleshoot and solve any I/O bottlenecks but also suggests looking at other 3rd party options such as Virtualization Manager and Storage Manager.

One of the most common reasons computers fail is because of faulty or failed memory and Windows does a good job alerting you after the memory has failed. It is better to find failing memory before it has crippled your machine though. In this post, Jeff Hicks explains how to use the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool to diagnose memory issues.

In this post, Greg Stuart challenges you to protect your data in 2012. Greg provides an easy 3 step guide to protecting your data both from intruders and from hardware failure by putting your data in the cloud and securing it properly.

In today’s post, Sean Wilkins discusses OSPF redistribution and briefly covers some issues that one must keep in mind when configuring redistribution within OSPF. With these things in mind, you can go a long way towards ensuring that your network will continue to run smoothly and correctly when utilizing OSPF redistribution.

In today’s post, Michael Simmons shows how simple it is to change user’s local and domain passwords using PowerShell with WMI and .NET. This allows quick flexible changes to user accounts with script that can be reused whenever the need arises.

In this video post from TrainSignal, Cisco UCS expert Jason Nash will show you the required steps to creating a Service Profile Template in your Cisco Unified Computing System. Service Profile Templates can make it easy for you to provision many servers because it will allow you to quickly create multiple service profiles having the same basic parameters like say the number of vNICs and vHBAs.