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Published May 24, 2012 by Eric

Review – Samsung Series 7 Slate PC

WARNING: This is my first review so it may not contain the typical items you may find in some other reviews.

At work we have had a push to try and utilize tablet devices a little more. Our main focus has been on using the iPad 2. It has worked out pretty well. There has been a little bit of a learning curve though and we have had to adapt some of things we do so they would work on the iPad. Overall though, it has been a good experience. However, I wouldn’t be a good technician if I didn’t look at other devices and/or technology as well. So with Microsoft working on it’s new Windows 8 OS, which sounds like it will be very tablet friendly, I thought we should get a Windows-based tablet that we could try out.

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Published May 24, 2012 by Eric

Exchange 2010 DAG

So we have just migrated our users over to Exchange 2010 a couple of months ago. When we started we purchased a new server and set it up with Windows 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010. The plan was to migrate all of our users from the old Exchange 2007 server to the new Exchange 2010 and then rebuild the old one with Exchange 2010 also so we could take advantage of the new DAG options. It all sounded easy enough.

Exchange

Published April 12, 2012 by Eric

Exchange 2010 – Get ItemCount for mailbox

We had a user that had a very large mailbox (313,000+ items and a size over 50GB) and we couldn’t figure out why. My first thought was that it was a corrupt mailbox and it was just reporting the wrong size. However, when I moved the mailbox to a new server the size remained the same and the move didn’t show any corrupted messages.

I sat down and looked at the mailbox on the users computer and checked the Inbox, Sent Items, and Deleted Items. None of those had any large messages. The largest message may have been 1MB. The user did have a lot of folders, but I didn’t want to take the time to go through each one individually and try to figure out where the messages were at.

Exchange

Published March 13, 2012 by Eric

ASA – Flash Upgrade

So we have to Cisco ASA 5520’s that we needed upgrade to 512MB of Flash. From looking online it looked like this was simple enough, but I did run into one small problem during the process. Apparently, when we got the new Flash in it wasn’t formatted correctly. When I copied the files to the new flash the ASA would not boot.

Copy the contents from the old ASA Flash:

Cisco

Published October 3, 2011 by Eric

Cisco ASDM Launcher

When you install Cisco ASDM Launcher on a Windows 7 x64 computer you may run into a problem with the program shortcut. When you do the initial install you are prompted with the login box, but once you close that and try to use the shortcut you may have problems. Here is how to fix it.

Problem:

You double-click the Cisco ASDM Launcher icon on your desktop and you get a box that reads: “Windows is searching for JAVAW.EXE…”.

Cisco

Published August 24, 2011 by Eric

Nintendo Wii – Won’t power on

The other day my daughter discovered our Wii wouldn’t power on. I was going to give up on it, but did a search and thanks to the site below our…

Games

Published August 22, 2011 by Eric

Windows Installer in Safe Mode

So I got a new laptop at work the other day. Just like any computer that I get I do a complete wipe and reload from the OS up just because I don’t like all the extra stuff that comes preloaded. So I grab my Windows 7 x64 with SP1 disc and do the install. Everything looks good. I get all the drivers loaded and get it updated. I start installing applications again no problem until I try to install Corel WordPerfect X5. I get through the whole installation and then it tells me my system wasn’t modified.

Microsoft Windows 7 WordPerfect

Published August 22, 2011 by Eric

Allow access to certain websites using IE

At work, we have a few computers that sit in the open that needed to be used to access our website. Here are the steps we followed to lock Internet Explorer down to only our web site.

Go to Control Panel (Click Start, Control Panel)
Open Internet Options by double-clicking on it
Click the Connections tab
Click the LAN Settings button at the bottom
Read MoreAllow access to certain websites using IE

Internet Explorer

Published June 1, 2011 by Eric

Printer Spooler won’t stay running

I had a computer at work that was running Windows XP SP3 and it got infected with a fake AV product. I ran MalwareBytes on the computer and cleaned up the infection. I thought everything was working until the person tried to print. They got a message that said:

“Before you can perform printer-related tasks such as page setup or printer a document, you need to install a printer. Do you want to install a printer now?”

Microsoft Windows XP

Published March 1, 2011 by Eric

Exchange 2007 – Message stuck in submission queue

Up until today at work we didn’t have any size limits set for our email. I know this is unheard of now a days, but we couldn’t get them approved. We didn’t run into a lot of problems, but would have someone try and send really large attachments once or twice a year which would slow things down for awhile. Today; however, that changed. We had a user try to send an email that had 1.6GB worth of attachments. So once we got Exchange back up and running limits were put into affect.

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