Musings on technology, faith, family and leadership
Here's a summary of the last few weeks: ice snow rain ice snow rain Do you see a pattern? From January 4 – 25, I participated in a 21-day "Daniel Fast" along with the large majority of the staff at… Read moreJanuary 2010 Update (Time flies)
I've blogged before about how LifeChurch.tv uses Websense for filtering / logging our Internet traffic at our central location. At our remote locations, we've used IPCop + Dansguardian. It's worked okay. Recently, we performed the upgrade to Websense v7.1 and… Read moreWebsense: Synchronized Policies For Remote Campuses
Welcome back! I missed you. For the last year or so, we've been on a long-term plan to eliminate single points of failure (SPOF) in our network. I've blogged about several of them – I'll list a few posts below… Read moreCisco IOS-fu #5 – BGP / Redundancy
Hello again! A while back, oh I guess about 3 months ago now, I blogged about our Veeam Backup & Replication installation. I promised a "Part 2" discussing setup and stuff. Well, that never happened. I got distracted, and rather… Read moreUPGRADED: Veeam Backup & Replication v4.0
I feel like I've been doing a lot of "upgrade" blog posts recently. I guess that's a good thing because it means I like the products enough to keep using them 🙂 I've blogged before that we are using Websense… Read moreUPGRADED: Websense v7.1
So, just days after installing and activating our Solarwinds IPAM v1.0.1 module, the newest update comes out. This is good albeit slightly frustrating because it came out at a time I couldn't get to it for a week! 🙂 For… Read moreUPGRADED: Solarwinds IPAM v1.5
Hello there! If you frequently stumble on my blog, you already know this. If you are new – I really like Solarwinds. I use many of their products, and have for years starting with their TFTP Server and Subnet calculator… Read moreSolarwinds Orion IPAM – IP Address Manager
If you recall, LifeChurch.tv has been using the Solarwinds Orion NPM (Network Performance Monitor) and APM (Application Performance Monitor) to help make sure our network/services are in tip-top shape for our user community. A few months ago, I blogged about… Read moreUPGRADED: Solarwinds Orion NPM + APM
I've had this conversation several times recently. I thought I'd take time to blog about it. It shouldn't take very long. MYTH: You need to buy a UCC SSL Certificate in order to use Exchange 2007 What is a UCC… Read moreExchange 2007 – SSL without a UCC Certificate
My very first useful blog post had to do with setting up Microsoft KMS. That was last November. Surprisingly, it's still one of the most viewed blog posts I have. I figured it's time to update/upgrade KMS since Windows 2008… Read moreUPGRADED: Microsoft KMS for Server 2008 R2 & Windows 7