There are many symptoms that may arise when you are installing a new firewall on a network that is using a DSL circuit and the MTU is not set correctly. That’s right the MTU, Max transmission Unit as it is know is a happy 1500 bytes on any Ethernet, that medium makes up most endpoint networks on the Internet. Most admins never think about what the MTU is set at… Continue reading
Do you happen to be a systems support guy who needs a method of getting the basic stats of a WD ShareSpace into your XYmon or MAG monitor? If you are like me then you are a systems admin responsible for many different networks spread across the Internet. You then may have deployed a few NAS systems including the WD ShareSpace that runs a version of BusyBox Linux. This is good… Continue reading
Backup Windows Systems to a FTP Server
Download: -> Kaseya FTP Backups
So you have Kaseya clients out on the wire that need some level of backup but are not near a NAS or USB Drive. Have thoes clients backup to a FTP server by using WinSCP and a Kaseya Script to do the job for you.
This script has several peices and can be customized for… Continue reading
Top is a Linux process that shows a list of processes running on the system and what levels of resources are being used. This application provides all processes running, the CPU and Memory consumed and with several switches available you can see things like the location of the executable that is running.
Unfortunately, they don’t make a TOP executable ported for Microsoft Windows but don’t despair. You can Continue reading
You can customize the Outlook holiday file to include your own holiday information. You might choose to do this if a particular local holiday is not included in the Outlook file and you want to deploy new holiday information to a large group of people (if you just want to do this for yourself, it’s probably easier to just add events directly to your calendar).
You can open the Continue reading
The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections. The system can not log you on. The system has reached its licensed logon limit. Please try again later.”
This problem happens because Windows only allows two remote terminal services connections when you are in administrative mode, and you’ve either got two people already on that server, or more likely, you’ve got a disconnected session that still thinks it Continue reading
After installing Windows 2008 R2 and then running the updates you start getting “There was a problem starting oobefldr.dll The specified module could not be found” being displayed as a error pop up when logging in to the desktop?
Just remove…
/HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Currentversion/Run/WindowsWelcomeCenter
Log off and back on and and messages are now gone!
Enjoy Continue reading
Warning: This process will delete all email that is due to go to external recipients. Internal messages are not affected, neither are new inbound messages from the Internet unless they are from the spammer continuing to try and abuse your server.
Capturing the Messages Into a Single Queue
This process requires an SMTP connector for all addresses. If you don’t already have one (with a * on the Continue reading
