SG300 Running a Data VLAN and Voice VLAN completely independantly from One another
SG300 Running a Data VLAN and Voice VLAN completely independantly from One another So…. Ive got to say SG300 Switches can be a pain to configure. Some of the logical things you learn with other Cisco products just does not apply. With VoIP becoming more popular and affortable SMB are finding that they need to ...
LAR Online – Youtube Video – Introduction to Bitcoin
With Bitcoin and Crypto Currency getting more and more attention in the media. I seem to be asked on a more frequent basis very similar questions but from different people, they tend to be around the following topics What is Bitcoin and Crypto Currency What is the Blockchain, what is a decentralized network ? What is mining? ...
Connect to a Cisco IOS Device via Serial using a Mac Terminal
For all you Apple fans out there that may have a MacBook for your day to day engineer tasks and do a lot of work with Cisco here is how you can connect using the native terminal ap Open Spotlight bt pressing CMD+Space – type ‘Terminal’ In the terminal window list devices available by typing ...
Powershell to list Distribution Lists and users contained within
I have recently been working on a project that required me to provide an extensive list of distribution groups and all users within that list. Obviously something that i did not want to do manually as it would have taken a massive amount of time. So I created some powershell to do it for me ...
Configuring BitTitan For a on Premise to Hosted Exchange Migration
I have used Bittitan now on a couple of occasions and I have to say that it is my preferred method of doing large-scale Exchange migrations. if On-Premise to On-Premise or On Premise to a Hosted Exchange Platform If you’ve not seen BitTitan before – Check out one of their case studies below this post is more of ...
Checking Number Of User Mailboxes in a Multi Exchange Server Enviroment
One thing I need to consider when creating users in a Multi-Exchange environment is how many users sit on each Exchange Server – This is so that I can ensure that there is a fair load on all the servers. Luckily this can be achieved by a simple PowerShell execution Get-Mailbox -resultsize unlimited | Group-Object -Property:ServerName ...
Windows 2016 Domain Controller and Hyper-V Time Sync Issues
Timing issues on a Domain controller can be a bit of a pain. This is more so the case I have found in Windows Server 2016 running in a MS Hyper V Environment as by default out of the Box Time synchronization is enabled ‘out of the box’ now there are various arguments that The ...
Migrating from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2016 Server Domain
The purpose of this guide is to systematically explain how to take a 2003 domain and migrate it to a 2016 domain. The reason for the guide is that during my preparation for a recent migration the information available was quite contradictory. The fact remains that it is not possible to jump from 2003 to ...
Tregenna Castle Server Migration
Tregenna Castle last had a system upgrade in 2005. Since which their 2003 SBS environment was in dire need of attention being 12 years old it was beginning to fail in multiple areas This project saw us move them from said infrastructure to that of a 2016 Domain controller and RDS Server in ...