*** If you think one of your online accounts is hacked or compromised in some way, and that's how you got here, immediately log into whatever account it is and change your password. *** Recently a friend of mine's Facebook account was phished which ...[Read More]

If you're using CKS EBE and have a solution to this, please feel free to let me know. The automatic detection of blogs that post to your site is a pretty nice feature of CKS EBE, however, from what I see, there is no error checking.  So if sites po ...[Read More]

One of the great new features that MOSS introduced, was an easy way to have the same information shared between multiple portals/sites.  By extending your web applications, you can have separate authentication providers utilized to reach the same in ...[Read More]

Since starting this blog, I've tried to add features that I thought might be useful.  After experimenting with a few searches, I decided to go with Google's Search for AdSense.  It seemed to be a pretty useful tool, with advertising harmlessly place ...[Read More]

Yesterday when I was working with BlogCatalog, I discovered that my RSS feeds weren't being autodiscovered.  After doing a little digging, I realized that I was missing a very simple HTML tag.  It's an easy and common oversight for people running ...[Read More]

Dell's 1900 series servers are a great entry level virtualization server.  It's the perfect hardware to get you started with ESX or ESXi, at an affordable price.  Affordable price being a relative term of course, but you can configure a 1900 seri ...[Read More]

The importance of having a naming schema for your virtual machines in VMware VI (ESX / Virtual Center) has become much more important with the release of the VI Toolkit for Windows. If you're not sure what the VI Toolkit for Windows is, pleas ...[Read More]

Virtual what? Many people over the last several years have used the word Virtualization and the phrase Server Consolidation as buzzwords.  Meaning they used the words to sound knowledgeable in specific areas or felt the oncoming rush of what ...[Read More]

Today I was building a VM in VMware VI3 (ESX), one that was completely isolated from my network and I realized that one of the pieces of software that I wanted to install was in a folder on a share.  Since this system was on an isolated virtual sw ...[Read More]

So after following a link from a buddy's blog, Bobby Shea, I started browsing around /n software's web site. I filled out the form for a free Windows PowerShell Sticker, again - yes, they didn't send it months ago the first time I tried, and I ...[Read More]