Ramblings o' Techie

Thoughts, tips, tricks, and fixes for the IT person in you. I am an MCSE and support a wide variety of IT-related items at my job, including: Windows OS's, Exchange, Terminal Services, .NET, IIS, OS X, Microsoft Office, printers, phones, Linux, Adobe Creative Suites, and plenty of other hardware and software. Hopefully some of the solutions I find throughout the workday are useful to you as well

Friday, November 20, 2009

Installing Windows XP in a VMWare ESXi environment, no hard disks found error

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If you attempt to install Windows XP in an VMWare ESXi environment (at least v3.0-3.5), don't be surprised if you get an error about no ...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Scripting a file transfer to an FTP server using a non-standard port (not 21)

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I ran into an issue last week while trying to automated a file upload to an FTP site using a port other than the default of 21. For some rea...

Windows command line FTP client that support PASV (passive mode)

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If you're trying to write an FTP transfer into a script and require a command line client that support passive mode transfers, you'l...
Friday, November 6, 2009

Restart Windows XP Print Spooler service

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Sometimes you may find it helpful or necessary to restart the print spooler on your Windows XP computer. This can happen if you're havin...

Networked HP 1022n printer not printing

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I have a user with an older HP 1022n laserjet printer at her desk, and all of a sudden today it stopped working. I found the jobs stuck in t...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

McAfee ePO 4.0 won't update repository or allow manual package check-in

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I was running into an issue with our ePO 4.0 server, where it wasn't updating the master repository like it should, and if I tried to ma...

Shared folders on iSCSI drive disappear after restart

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I was finally given approval to purchase an iSCSI SAN a few months ago and have been enjoying the benefits of having a large amount of stora...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Group policy assigned software not being installed

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I wanted to setup Office 2007 to be deployed through group policy. However, I could get it to work on the machine I was using to test the po...
Monday, October 19, 2009

OS X 10.5 Leopard includes better VPN support

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We have a simple PPTP VPN setup using a Fortigate firewall, but the Mac OS X 10.4 users had a hard time with it. The problem was that there ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

Take screenshot of iPhone screen

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Sometimes it would be nice to take a quick screenshot of my iPhone screen to be able to use to show someone something. Little did I know tha...
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