DSL Extreme vs. Cox High-Speed Internet
I’ve moved from DSL Extreme 6000/768 service to Cox High-Speed Internet Preferred 12000/1500. Here are some comparison stats.
Office 365 Service Request Error
Office 365 allows creating service requests through the online portal. Yesterday, after typing in all the details on my issue, when I clicked to Submit the service request, I got …
Forefront Login Errors
As I was setting up Office 365, when I clicked on the link to load the Forefront Online Protection admin panel, I sometimes got this error:
Using Office 365 in an SBS 2008 Environment
Here are a couple gotchas that I discovered as I migrated Exchange 2007 under SBS 2008 to Office 365, and how I got around them. Update August 26, 2011 There …
Send Mail from SBS 2008 When Port 25 Blocked
All of my email is now delivered to the cloud (Office 365). But my SBS 2008 still sends a daily report, and other services (like the APC PowerChute UPS agent) …
Office 365: Is Exchange Migration Active?
Are you migrating Exchange to Office 365? Are you waiting on your mailboxes to show up in Office 365 but it seems like nothing is happening? Support suggested a PowerShell …
SNMP ssCPUIdle Incorrect on CentOS 5.2
I use SNMP to monitor ssCPUIdle on CentOS 5.2. Today, after 248 days of uptime, it started returning 0% idle: $snmpwalk -v 1 localhost –c public .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.11 UCD-SNMP-MIB::ssCpuIdle.0 = INTEGER: …
SNMPUtil on Server 2008 R2
Yes, SNMPUtil from the Server 2000 Resource Kit, available here, works on Server 2008 R2. The package also includes the handy SNMPUtilG with a graphical interface.
Hyper-V Certificate Will Expire within 30 Days
It may be a bit sensationalistic to call it a time bomb, but apparently Hyper-V will only run for a year before the self-signed certificate that allows remote access to …
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Resolves Network Dropouts
A few months back, I purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. From the beginning, I had frequent issues with applications crashing due to lost connections to …