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Upgrading HP ProCurve firmware via USB flash drive

Today I got a replacement HP ProCurve 2910al-48G-PoE+ J9148A to replace one that had faulted in the data-center so I am taking a moment to take a little phrase from Horace “Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero” because I may not have the chance to do this another day. The ProCurve switch has a USB port that […]

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Trend Micro Officescan 10 WSSPatterns consuming my disk

Working on the Officescan Server in preparation for an upgrade, when I noticed a large amount of disk space used on the server.  Not knowing where the space was being used I pulled out my handy portable version of HDGraph and did the scan.  It showed that the space used was from the following directory:  C:Program FilesTrend […]

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CrashPlan on headless debian server

I had been interested in using a backup solution for my photos when I came across CrashPlan. The price for one was a quick sale and the idea of being able to backup “unlimited” data from a single computer just seemed to fit what I had been looking for. I recently changed my home file […]

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Verizon FiOS Router DLNA Issues

Recently I noticed an issue with my FiOS router no longer allowing my DLNA Clients to connect to my PS3 and MiniDLNA Server when connecting over wireless. My wired clients were unaffected by this issue. Firmware Version: 20.19.8 Model Name: MI424WR-GEN2 Hardware Version: E After some tinkering I discovered that IGMP Proxy settings was causing my problem. […]

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Enable SNMP on ESXi 5.

So you want to enable SNMP on ESXi 5 and finding a lot on Google and Bing regarding using the vicfg- command run in the CLI, only to find out that the command doesn’t exist in your install of ESXi5? Well you have come to the right place. I enabled SNMP and this is how: […]

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How To Create Shared Mailbox In Exchange 2010

Open the Exchange Shell and type the following command: New-Mailbox shared –shared –userprincipalname shared@jermsmit.com If the mailbox was already a user mailbox and you are converting to shared type the following command: Set-Mailbox -Identity shared@jermsmit.com -Type Shared You can now verify that the box is indeed a shared mailbox by typing the following command: Get-Mailbox […]