Two difference voice mails on one Cisco IP phone
Set up two lines with separate voice mail in one ip-phone in Cisco unity 2.0 1st extention voice mail works. 2nd extension voice mail does not play messages. What am I doing wrong?

Answer Question   |  October 5, 2010  9:25 PM
Cisco, Cisco IP phone, Cisco Unity, IP phone configuration, IP phones

Monitoring SMART hard drive status via Active Directory
Can we monitor SMART hard drive status via Active Directory or via SpiceWorks to know before a potential hard drive failure? How would this work. Client machines are XP and 7.

Answer Question   |  November 2, 2011  8:43 PM
Active Directory, HARD drive, Hard drive failure, Hard drives, Monitoring software, Spiceworks, Windows 7, Windows XP

Wireless Printer setup
Got one laptop printing to printer, but can’t get others to connect. Get error (hexidecimal 0x000006cc) code, when I try to share  them. What’s up?

Answer Question   |  October 5, 2010  8:40 PM
HP Photosmart, Windows 7, Windows 7 Printing, Wireless printers, Wireless printing

IT Book Giveaway: Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials
We’ve got your ultimate in-depth resource on the start-to-finish lifecycle guidance for planning, implementation, management and troubleshooting your Oracle Solaris Cluster. There’s even helpful advice for both Oracle and non-Oracle database environments. Win this valuable resource by answering one of these questions and leaving the link to your answer in the discussion area below. Multiple [...]

Answer Question   |  October 30, 2010  1:48 PM
Clustering, Contests, DHCP, Giveaways, IT answers, IT Books, Oracle, SQL Server 2008 R2, Veeam 4.0, Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 network printing error
I periodically get this from Windows XP clients on my network (have yet to see it on a Windows 7 machine) When they go to print sometimes they get Access denied, unable to connect to the printers. If they log off their machine or do a repair on the network connection they are able to [...]

Answer Question   |  October 8, 2010  11:06 PM
Domain Controller, Network printing, Windows domain management, Windows errors, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows XP Printing

Do I need my small business server?
I would like to eliminate my small business server as we are downsizing and only need to network 4 computers. Is it necessary to have the server? How would I join the four computers so that we are able to share a printer and documents?

Answer Question   |  October 4, 2010  9:40 PM
Network, Network Configuration, Networking in 2010, SBS, Server, Small Business Server

Using wireless router stand alone
Once I have configured my wireless router with a network connected desktop, can the  wireless  router be run stand alone and utilized only  with my laptops that are prewired with wireless?  The desktop will be disconnected.

Answer Question   |  February 15, 2011  6:48 PM
Windows Vista, Wireless in 2010, Wireless Network, Wireless network management, Wireless router

VPN tunnel
how do i check if tunnel is open or closed?

Answer Question   |  October 5, 2010  2:52 PM
VPN, VPN configuration, VPN connectivity, VPN Tunnel

Connecting my server to the internet
I have server 2003 and I want to add clients to it to access the internet. The problem seems to be that my isp is a dhcp and won’t allow me to run a dhcp server what happens is that none of my machines can access the internet is there anyway for my systems to [...]

Answer Question   |  October 1, 2010  11:37 PM
DHCP, DHCP server, Internet service providers, ISP, Windows Server 2003

Testing DNS Server
Testing the DNS server for issues on Windows 2003. I am seeing websites sometime return incorrect ip addresses. Can this be a DNS cache issue? How can I troubleshoot it?

Answer Question   |  October 1, 2010  7:44 PM
Cache, DNS, DNS configuration, DNS errors, server testing, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003

Moving active directory from one server to another
Hello I would like some assistance, i am changing hardware and as such i would like to know how i go about moving the active directory users from 1 server to another. The old server is windows 2003, DC and DNS. The new server is already set to be a DC and DNS. the domain [...]

Answer Question   |  October 6, 2010  8:07 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory migration, DNS, Domain Controller, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 migration

Remotely connect to Windows 7 Domain Computers internally.
We need to remotely connect and control Windows 7 desktops on our internal domain. What software is necessary and what needs to be configure at the firewall or router level?

Answer Question   |  October 2, 2010  3:57 PM
Domain, Firewalls, Remote access, Remote access server, Remote administration, Remote connection, Windows 7

Joomla Migration
What is the best way to migrate our Joomla installation to another server? We are currently on a shared hosted box and we want to move to our own server.

Answer Question   |  September 29, 2010  3:56 PM
Content Management Systems, Joomla, Migration, Server migration

WAN traffic utilization report
How can we analyze traffic utilization of WAN connections? We have a Ethernet handoff going to our sonicwall as our default gateway.

Answer Question   |  May 12, 2011  3:56 PM
Network traffic analysis, Traffic utilization report, WAN, WAN analyzer, Windows

Advertised network routes are not showing
I ran into this problem; I am setting up a home lab Router A advertised routes are showing on router B Router B advertised routes are not showing on router A. Do you have any idea?

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2011  2:42 PM
Cisco networks, Cisco router configuration, Cisco Routers, Network routers

TFTP Usage?
I have a client that asked me to analyze if we can turn off TFTP service if it is not being used. I honestly didn’t know what TFTP (Trivial FTP) was until I started researching, and I have no clue how to determine if it is being used. Doe anyone have information on determining usage? [...]

Answer Question   |  September 29, 2010  10:42 AM
File Transfer Protocols, iSeries, TFTP, Trivial File Transport Protocol

Routing Assistance
I’ve been up way too long, and got a project tossed into my pile of work. For the life of me I can’t seem to get this routed right. Here’s the situation we have a server at one site, and another server at the other site. Both have networks currently communicating over Site 2 Site [...]

Answer Question   |  February 22, 2011  11:46 PM
Firewalls, IP Subnetting, IPsec VPN, Routing, Subnet, VPN

Ethernet Cable Run Max Length
What is the maximum cable length we can run from the switch to the desktop? What about from the patch panel to the switch to the desktop? Using cat 6? Is it different with cat 5 or 5e?

Answer Question   |  September 28, 2010  6:24 PM
CAT5, CAT5e, CAT6, Ethernet, Ethernet connection, Switches, Windos

CISCO 4503-SWITCHES SMPS FAILURE
in my network 4503 switch is installed. the Power supplies of 4503 is frequently failing. even power ground is fine. and Steabilizer and UPS is also connected. Suggest me the reason of failure.

Answer Question   |  September 27, 2010  11:30 AM
Cisco 4503, Cisco Catalyst 4503, Cisco switch configuration, Cisco switches

Windows server 2003 home network needs help
I am setting up a network at home under Win 2K3 and I am not sure of the settings. Can someone validate what I am doing? My Cable modem goes into a WIFI linksys WRT53G router (its IP is 193.168.1.1). The router goes into a hub in which are connecting 3 workstations and the 2K3 [...]

Answer Question   |  February 16, 2011  6:02 PM
Home network, Linksys Routers, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration, Wireless in 2010