Internet Explorer 11 is part of Microsoft Windows 8.1 which was released released to manufacturing in August and in October it was released to general public. In October Microsoft released Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7. In coming weeks, Internet Explorer 11 will be available on Windows update as an automatic update. Why administrators don’t […]
How to trade up BB BES Licences
Are you still using BES 5? You just received new Z10 and you need to set it up? One of the major differences between old (version 5) and the new Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) 10.1 version is that the latest edition does not have express version (free) available. In the past you could use express […]
How to monitor and load test websites Monitis review
I was assigned to a project where e-commerce team wanted to do some website monitoring. After initial discussions, website monitoring expanded to: “Hey, how would our websites fare under load? How many clients can we serve?” Soon I had to find a solution that would be cheap, reliable, and had great features. Soon I stumbled […]
Flush DNS in Mac OS X
I love playing with various OS’s and in OSX is on top of my list. During the day I am managing IT from my old trusted Lenovo ThinkPad with Windows. At night I am using my MacBook PRO. And I love it. The more and more I use it for various tasks the more I […]
How to fix Crashplan Proe login without upgrade backup dump
One day after I updated Crashplan enterprise version I tried to log in to Crashplan PROe console only to find out that I am unable to. I made a colossal mistake. I updated installation with several newer versions, one after the other. I didn’t check after each upgrade if I everything works. I should have […]
How to automatically restart a windows service
What happens when you run a program via service and it stops responding? You can configure the service to automatically restart if it stops responding. You can even set an option that if service was automatically restarted to restart again. But sometimes this functionality doesn’t work as expected. I mean service could stop every hour and then, […]
Sysprep fails at Microsoft Windows Shell Setup
A new batch of computers just arrived, so we started deploying images with Smartdeploy. Smartdeploy is just a easy to use imaging solution using Microsoft technologies for making the system images. The problem applies to all similar solutions including Sysprep and Image X. The standard process for creating a deployment image involves installing the Windows Automated […]
Improving your life with Dayone app
I never thought about writing about the usefulness of a diary. When I was young I was watching girls writing their Journal, they were writing you know, stuff like that guy smiled at me, my friend did this to me, I don’t like her anymore… Fun stuff. But, I only recently discovered what an asset […]
Get your free account on DNSstuff.com
Several years ago when I really devoted my soul to IT, there was a website and it was a really great asset for IT Professionals. DNSStuff.com was powerful tool for every admin, as it provided essential DNS tools, you entered domain name and it showed you all the information, good things and most importantly bad things. […]
Exchange 2010 no option to assign services to certificate
Certificate on our Exchange 2010 server was about to expire. I renewed certificate, completed pending request in Exchange, the last step remaining was to assign services to certificate. BUT, that option was missing. I searched around the internet, nothing. Exchange 2010 no option to assign services to certificate Then I remembered, you need internet access […]
