Manage your Bandwidth
PFSense is by far one of the best gateway solutions out there in my opinion. I am going to show you one of the many reasons why I think this product is best of breed and that is the Bandwidth limiter. PFSense uses Free BSD as it base, it has included the DummyNet software project which allows you to simulate/enforce queues and bandwidth limitations, delays, packet losses, and multipath… Continue reading
You may have gotten a pop up on Windows that says your network resource is no longer available after a password change or password expired notice and while using Network Neighborhood. During troubleshooting you find that others can access share, the server is pingable but you can not access any share on system and it feels like XP thinks the server is not there.
I have found that this… Continue reading
Event ID 333 description is An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverable. The Registry could not read in, write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system’s image of the Registry.
This means that the image of the registry held in memory could not be written to disk. Windows uses what is called the lazy writer to periodically write modified pages of memory to disk. When the… Continue reading
AppAssure Replay backup reports Errors, ‘Unable to take VSS Snapshot of volume(s) because the VSS subsystem is in a bad state.’ or ‘Error taking snapshot of volume(s): AddToSnapshotSet failed when trying to add volume ‘C:’ – VSS Provider is not registered’
I found this to be a fairly common issue when deploying new Replay… Continue reading
Everytime you try to run the Windows Updater you always get the message “Windows can’t update important files and services while the system is using them. Save any open files and restart the computer, and try to check for new updates.“ This is caused by a Registry Key that has not been removed after a previous update.
There is… Continue reading
Squidworks.net starts development on a National Harley Davidson Riders Community.
Whether it’s a joyride or a long haul, cruising the U.S Highways on a Hog is an activity that only… Continue reading
So you want to access your VMware ESX 5 host over SNMP? Here is the quick steps to get Dell OpenManage and SNMP on your ESX 5 host up and running fast. You will need the VIB’s from Dell, also will need to download and install the VMware CLI client for accessing ESX hosts from remote… Continue reading
From the skunk works here at Squidworks.net comes the ConnectWise Callers widget for the Digium SwitchVox PBX switchboard. The ConnectWise Callers Widget queries your Connectwise database for information about inbound callers calling in to your SwitchVox PBX. When a phone number is picked up from the caller ID it is then used to query the contact and company tables inside… Continue reading
Cubert has created another simple auditing script for Kaseya Agent procedures. This script grabs all the users and groups in the Local Administrators Group of any Windows system and saves then to a file on the Kserver. Every time the script runs it will upload and compare the files for differences. If it finds that a user or group was added… Continue reading
Cubert has noting better to do with his time then to play with the Text to Speach functions available on a Mac. Well today he has put together a smaill Kaseya Agent Procedure that sings a little song to to the unspecting user of a Mac system. Just import the script and launch it against the unsupecting to get a… Continue reading
