Hello, I thought I would share this experience as it took me a bit by surprise and I ended up having to call Microsoft support. I am not stranger to P2V migrations or restoring servers from backup, but this one had me just stumped. Basically I was in the position of having to restore a […]
Just an FYI to all.. Yesterday I successfully installed Windows 10 from a USB stick and it accepted the OEM Winodws 7 Home key (attached to DELL case) as well as activated. This free offer was supposed to end in July 2016, but I am thinking now that it may have just been a gimic […]
I’ve been doing quite a bit of research lately regarding the practicality of implementing IPv6 into production networks and I’ve got to say that at this point there are still some pretty big questions to be answered. I’ve reached out to a few other blogs and vendors and have yet to really get a straight […]
Hello, writing a quick post based on my recent experience implementing a pair of Nexus 3548 switches. To this point I’ve only had experience with Catalyst switches and while the Nexus OS functions similarly, there were quite a few differences that made going back and forth between the two platforms a little challenging. First, just […]
Have you ever wished you could export all of the drivers from one Windows system to file, then wipe the OS and just “import” them? Well, this tool does just that! Enjoy, I plan to leave the download directly on my site. Click here to download directly from the TylerCrew Blog. Edit 20160829: This tool […]
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 […]