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Anyone here use SuperMicro IPMI? I scored a slightly used X7SPE-HF motherboard/D510 combo and cannot get IPMI to work on the silly thing. It's enabled in the BIOS, all the jumpers are where they should be. This motherboard uses a shared LAN connection for IPMI, I've tried both NICs without...

While troubleshooting performance problems at a client today I snagged a screen-shot of this gem. Thought I would share. :D Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Okay, so I have this Cisco IAD2400 router sitting here at a client. No one knows what the password is and password recovery doesn't work because I can't get into ROMMON. Looks like they have enabled "no service password-recovery". So, that being said, is there any way to get into this silly...

Okay, so I am having a huge brain fart this evening and know I am missing something simple cause it's late or I'm an idiot, one of the two. I have a client with two sites that are connected via a P2P T1 that is terminated by two matching 1841 routers. Each site has their own DSL connection...

Anyone have any experience with Direct Access VPN in Server 2008 R2 yet? I have a client that wants to get this running for all of their remote users that have shiny new Windows7 x64 Ultimate laptops. They have an ASA5510 hosted in a datacenter that connects back to their three offices over...

Okay, so I just picked up a client today. They say their server is having all kinds of issues so I head out there. Find their old IT Guy, who happens to be the Network Admin for a county somewhere else in the state, has installed their corporate license of Kapersky Anti-Virus 6.0 on the server...

So, I'm getting these alerts about every day from my WHS telling me that it is rebuilding or initializing all the time. Here is the stuff from the log. I'm starting to get worried about my data. I have all my pictures and music backed up off-site using iDrive but I don't have a local backup yet...

Have a client that changed their ISP and now we can't get them able to send to AOL.com email addresses again. They run Exchange 2003 and a Barracuda Spam Firewall 300. So, I've managed to get this working before just fine but now I am having a major brain fart as to what the problem is. Here...

Just curious if anyone has done this or not. I've got a client that was sold a Barracuda Spam Firewall 200 a few years ago. They only have seven email addresses so we moved them to Postini rather than spend a crap ton on maintenance for the Barracuda. So, I'm looking at this thing and thinking...

Got a cheap-ass client that wants to upgrade their single ESX server to a clustered ESX environment. Need to find the cheapest Layer3 capable gigabit switch that can do LAG or LACP so I can do port teaming on the ESX Hosts and SAN. Any ideas? Right now I'm looking at HP ProCurve trying to find...

Anyone here play with EBS 2008? It looks like a hopped up SBS2008 spread across 3-4 servers. I'm looking at it and thinking this could be a really good solution for the SME, especially when you throw it on a small VMware or Hyper-V cluster for HA. 2x DL360/380 servers with 20GB RAM and dual...

. . . . but don't try to download it yet . . . sheesh . . . I'm only getting 27KBps. When I started it before bed last night I was at least pulling ~250KBps. Everyone and their MSDN brother is downloading this thing. :( By captcolonoscopy at 2009-08-07

Okay, so I've been working on setting up a web proxy auto-configuration script for a client. The purpose for this is they have a lot of laptop users, if we manually configure the proxy settings through GP then they can't access the internets from home because they aren't on the corporate LAN...

I'm working on setting up an OpenFiler NAS for a VMware lab at home for learning and experimentation without breaking other people's stuff. I have very limited funds for this after I bought my two servers for the VMware Cluster.I have a spare server with a PCI-X slot and room for a stack of HDDs...

It is my intention for this post to be a general purpose guide for people needing help with malware removal. The steps listed below, when done correctly and in order, should clean your computer of all but the most egregious malware. This guide assumes that you do not necessarily have the ability...

Okay, so a client started having all these goofy GAL and OAB generation errors and now their Exchange 2007 server starts asking everyone for passwords when they open outlook, etc. Looks like I'm going to have to rebuild the IIS sites. But, here is the fun part. The guy that was previously...

http://www.zenithinfotech.com/bdr_sol.asp The consulting company I work for is interested in branding and reselling the Backup & Disaster Recovery solutions offered by Zenith InfoTech. I've looked at their site and what they offer seems pretty neat, have no idea what it costs yet. We're...

I want to buy your new or used GBA or DS Pokemon Games. My son has a fever for the Pokemon and the only cure is more cowbell . . . errr . . . more Pokemon games. We already have have Diamond, Ranger and Mystery Dungeon for the DS. I recently got burned on eBay and ended up with a counterfeit...

Hey, figured this was probably the best place to post this since it is the console gaming forum . . . . Anyway, I bought Pokemon: Fire Red off eBay for my son to play on his DS. He gets about an hour into it today and tries to save and it fails. Here are the errors: Asks if I want to...

So, I just finished setting up internet emails on this SBS2003 box. We have ReverseDNS, SPF, MX, DNS records setup that are correct for their static IP. Unfortunately, the static IP they were given is listed in the dreaded DUL (Dynamic User List) and now a lot of mail gets bounced back right...

So, I have this client that needs to get a VPN tunnel established between their firm and another that they are partnering with on some project so they can share files or something. Client has a Cisco PIX515 and the partner firm has a Linksys RVS4000 firewall. I am pretty sure I have the tunnel...

Apparently my google skills are failing me this fine morning. I have inherited management of an aging Cisco PIX515 for a client. The VPN private shared keys have not been documented. I need to find out what those keys are and I can't remember how to do it, or if it is possible, on the old 6.3.5...

So I am setting up Terminal Services on this new 2008 Std server that a client bought from someone else. Anyway, I had everything setup and working correctly, just had to get the users locked down, etc. I went and setup a user exactly they way that I wanted it. Then I copied that user account to...

Okay, I am trying to enable SSL and Forms Based Authentication for OWA on an Exchange 2003 server. This should be a relatively simple project, nothing I haven't managed to do a few dozen times before. Unfortunately, it isn't working and I need some help. The server in question is fully...

I inherited a client from a consultant that no longer works for my new employer. I figured out why this ass-hat no longer works there, he was an idiot. So I have been cleaning up the mess he left of this SBS2003 server. Setup GPOs and WSUS correctly. Had to re-install SEP and SMSMSE on the...

Okay, so the googler is totally failing me today. I swear there was a way you could create an MMC to open the Computer Management Console on a list of computers. I know I have seen this done at a client's office I worked at years ago and now I need to use it again but I can't figure out how to...

Okay, so I got this kill-a-watt thingy hooked up to a new DL360 G5 server and I want to see what the max draw on this thing really is. I know what HP says it is but I want to do some real world testing. So, right now I have HDTach and Prime95 running on it. Both cores are maxed at 100%...

Anyone know of a script or something that I could use to check the time, date and timezone settings of a group of windows servers. I started working for a different consulting firm and we've got this big client with ~150 servers. I noticed today that a few of them didn't have the DST 2007 patch...

So, I was checking my stats and noticed that PPD had gone down considerably the last two days. I was all WTF? Then I remembered I installed some updates to my home server with the 8600GT and rebooted it. . . . . I just checked it out and of course the GPU client wasn't running. jeeezzz. . . . .

Okay, so I just got our Nagios/MRTG server running in an ESXi VM and I'm running into a little snag with the MRTG cron configuration. Per http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/mrtg.htm I try to paste the following command into the console and I get an error. Command: Error: I am no...

We picked up a new client a few months ago that has a cheap Dell Precision Workstation setup as their server. Obviously we would like to move them to a real server but they don't want to do this just yet, maybe a year or so down the road. My quandary is this, I checked their Daily Server...

So, I thought all 8xxx series nVidia GPUs were supported? I installed the GPU client and then open it to configure and it says my GPU is not supported or I need to update my drivers. So I go to nVidia and download the latest drivers for Vista x64 and install, reboot. Fire it up again and get the...

Okay, so I finished moving all of our servers from Hyper-V to VMware last week or so. I now have our old Hyper-V server wiped and running VMware ESX 3i 3.5. I want to move the VMs from the temp ESX server to our ESX server using VEEAM but in order to do that I need to be able to SSH into the...

So, I have been playing around with Hyper-V in the office since it was in beta when Server 2008 went RTM. After Hyper-V went RTM I figured they would fix most of the things that sucked about it, but it appears I was wrong. Only linux support was for SLED, but I guess I should have expected that...

I could use some help from anyone who knows how to use WireShark well. Basically, a client of ours is getting blacklisted by Barracuda because a machine on their domain is sending spam out. I changed their firewall settings to allow only their exchange servers to send SMTP through the firewall...

No TechNet subscription required. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc184870.aspx Personally, I am looking forward to this one. Support for more than 4GB of RAM, Exchange 2007, etc. Looks like some good stuff. I think I'm going to start downlaoding that tomorrow and throw it...

I need to build a few custom Untangle UTM boxes for a few clients coming up in the next few months and I am looking for some recommendations, general thoughts, your experience, etc on the hardware and enclosure. Most of the places I have found that sell the rack mount enclosures I am not sure of...

So, I get a call this morning from an employee at one of our client's offices. Seems her inbox in outlook was filled with NDR messages from various email servers out on the internets. I checked through them all and they appear to be from legitimate smtp servers. Most hand indications that the...

First, a little backstory . . . . I am in the process of moving our entire office over to a server 2008 only AD domain. We previously had two 2003 DCs. These were demoted and removed from the domain after bringing on a transitional 2008 server to be the DC while I wiped the "old" servers and...

Heat under cadney eBay under AdneySystems I am looking for a mATX motherboard that takes s478 CPUs. I would also like to get a low-end P4 or Celeron (2.6GHz+) and HSF to go with it. Motherboard HAS to be mATX. I would really like to purchase this as a combo if possible. If you have...