I had the opportunity last week to work with some Gigabit POE Cisco 2960 switches, an Avaya IP office VoIP system, and a layer 2 based Ethernet recording system. The recording system basically had two dedicated Ethernet ports designed to receive mirrored traffic from the VoIP VLAN. Tap interfaces is what I took to calling […]
Hi all. So this might be old news for many, but I just discovered this feature of 2012 R2 and think it is just great. I often wondered why Microsoft required shared storage and the clustering role to grant high availability to the DHCP service. Well, not anymore. Credit to This Site is due. Scott […]
For those of you who haven’t heard about the Let’s Encrypt project, I recommend you check them out here.. It’s a great idea to automate the process of requesting and installing website certificates. Not to mention, they are free! Encryption by default. I’m using their certificate for this blog site as well as others and […]
Hi everyone. With Microsoft pushing Windows 10 so hard I wanted to mention this tool called GWX Control Panel. For those of you running Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 and are sick of Microsoft re-enabling their “nag” software it is a big win. I’ve even heard reports of the operating system pre-staging the 8+ Gb […]
As an IT consultant and now a full time network admin I have found myself in the position of designing a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution quite a few times over the years. I write this post in an effort to save someone else time, but also to collaborate with those who have similar or more […]
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