Make Outlook 2016 unread messages easier to see
After recently upgrading to Office 2016, one of the first products that I wanted to test drive was Outlook 2016 as email is a crucial part of the day, every…
Month: January 2016
Meraki MS220-8P unboxing and initial setup
Recently, I was excited to get my hands on a new Meraki MS220-8P cloud switch. So I wanted to go through some of the unboxing highlights as well as some…
Windows 10 Networking Powershell commandlets
With Windows 10 we have all the goodness of powershell baked into the operating system and with that, there are several really great powershell commandlets that can be used to…
Sophos UTM setup public key authentication for root
A quick how to post on how to setup public key authentication for root in Sophos UTM 9.x. If you want to enable root to have SSH access inside of…
Install Xenserver 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12
Just a quick write up on how to install XenServer 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12 via nested virtualization. First things first, we have to setup our nested virtual machine that will house…
Updating vCenter VCSA and update manager to 6.0 U1b
Recently VMware released the U1b release of vSphere products. I wanted to post some quick notes and steps used to update a vCenter 6.0 U1a release to U1b revision level.…
SQL Server Cannot generate SSPI context Multiple Domains
Recently in working with a multi domain environment, I ran into an issue involving SQL connectivity from a handful of client computers to a certain SQL server. The errors involved SSPI…
Add SMTP Windows Server 2016
Most may not realize that there is actually a free SMTP server builtin to Windows Server all the way back to Windows 2003 and is IIS 6 technology (I know,…
Windows Server 2016 Containers Basic Setup
If you would like to lab and play around with containers, there is a really great setup script and a few easy steps you can follow to get a copy…