It’s the little things… OS Installation issues with Dell T320

Was toying around with a Dell t320 with H710P raid card. The system originally had ESXi running a VM environment and just didn’t need the VM server any longer. Went to install the OS to bare metal and ??? Error “We couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one…” Mind you this was Read more about It’s the little things… OS Installation issues with Dell T320[…]

Preparing Your Network for a Storm

Storms are both beautiful and powerful. Which means they can distract you while causing stress to your environment and computer systems. We won’t go into the types of storms, instead we will go into the types of hazards. Quick Things to do: Move or cover all equipment near windows Shutdown non-critical equipment Test your battery backups Read more about Preparing Your Network for a Storm[…]

Reasons not to use GoDaddy Office 365

Had a client purchase GoDaddy’s Office 365 product recently. Then we decided to change the email domain. Now, for anyone who has ever dealt with email service, changing the domain is quite easy, you simple add the new domain and voila, you have a new email for all your existing account. I searched and searched, Read more about Reasons not to use GoDaddy Office 365[…]

Back-to-school apps, Here Comes the Bus

Tech has improved things is almost every aspect of our lives. This year brings some very cool ways to make education and tech fun. While local counties work to equip school buses with GPS to help everyone get to school on time, others are offering up the service to parents to track their kids en-route. Read more about Back-to-school apps, Here Comes the Bus[…]

Quick and Dirty migration from Add Meta Tags to Yoast SEO

WordPress has many useful features, one being SEO management. If you’ve ever setup a WordPress site and installed the Add Meta Tags plugin and wish to migrate to Yoast SEO (or to anything for that matter), this step by step will help you keep all your data. Login to your wp_admin Install the Yoast SEO Read more about Quick and Dirty migration from Add Meta Tags to Yoast SEO[…]

A better, Economical, Expandable NAS

Storage space is key in business. More and more data, more and more backups. When it’s time to pool all that data into one location for main storage or backup, you need a NAS. My original goal was to take advantage of storage on local client drives and pool it into one network level raid Read more about A better, Economical, Expandable NAS[…]

Renaming your Active Directory Domain {case study}

I’ve been putting this off for the company for some time. Renaming the domain. We have been running a windows 2000 domain updated to 2003 on a 2008 server. Just never really had the need to change it. A client approached after re-branding and needed to rename their domain. So, why not test with our Read more about Renaming your Active Directory Domain {case study}[…]