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In Part 1 of this series on the Solarwinds Engineer's Toolset, I focused primarily on the ease of installation. For those of you that are uber-technical, you probably laughed at that blog entry. It really is that simple. Anyway, in… Read moreSolarwinds Engineer’s Toolset v10 – Part 2 – Features & Cost
So, a week or so ago I was twittering with the Solarwinds Head Geek, @sw_headgeek. It started out innocently enough, just busting chops / teasing re: making network cables. Before I knew it, I had an opportunity to preview the… Read moreSolarwinds Engineer’s Toolset v10 – Part 1 – Installation
One of my projects recently has been adding our first Terminal Server into the LC.tv network. As a lot of organizations have, we've begun transitioning several key users to a Mac environment. A side effect has been the inability for… Read moreTerminal Server 2008 And Macs Play Nice
Here's a round-out for the projects I've worked on the last week or so – I'll probably have to blog about a few of these 1) Solarwinds Orion NPM 9.1 Updated to v9.1 Service Pack 4 Rebuilt our list of… Read moreThe last week or so…
I've been crazy busy the last couple weeks. We've been trying to recover from major ice-storm damage, fight with Allstate Insurance, figure out some mortgage refinancing (which failed because of appraisal value), and I even flew back to the Central… Read moreSophos PureMessage for Exchange 2007 – Installation
I thought this was a fun visual representation of all the words in all the posts on my blog thus far. You too can get yours at http://www.wordle.net/ - cool huh?
Well, the time has come to install Sophos into production. Here are a few details about our initial specs for the Sophos server (cleverly named SOPHOS in our environment): 1 single vCPU (2.33ghz) 2gigs of vRAM to start Server 2008… Read moreSophos – Initial Install/Setup Details
Since I posted on twitter that I got our SQL 2008 box up last week, I've been asked for some details. I also like putting things somewhere I can find it easily later. That's the whole reason I'm doing this… Read moreSQL 2008 x64 – Our Particular Setup
Hello there. Last time I blogged, I talked about how we were looking to change Antivirus products. I spent the last few weeks testing products from NOD32, AVG, Sophos, Trend and of course Symantec. It may be helpful to know… Read moreAntivirus Product Winner: Sophos
As usual, let's just dive in – no need for chitchat, right? LifeChurch.tv is a long-time Norton/Symantec customer for Antivirus products. The Symantec product line has treated us well for our desktops, servers and even our Exchange installations. We really only… Read moreAntivirus – Stay with a known, or venture into the unknown?