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Snapmirror initialisation error

Paul Brown — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:06:55 +0000

I recently encountered a problem snapmirroring between a 2020 in domain x and a 3140c in domain y. It was an interim configuration as part of a larger project. Snapmirror was being used as a way of swinging between the two filers in a production environment to minimise downtime. The fact that the filers were …

My phone does’nt work

Paul Brown — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:31:38 +0000

User – My Phone is broken IT Support – Hi, We’ll need a bit more info to start with. Can we get the symptoms of how’s it’s not working and if there was any cause for this? User – The phone stopped working after I retrieved it from an hour long wash cycle in my …

Lizamoon – How it attacks databases

Paul Brown — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:16:39 +0000

The past 10 days has seen a big increase in Lizamoon activity. Stories about Lizamoon have reported anything from a few thousand site being attacked to 1.5 million. Some of the sites attacked have been high profile. So, what does Lizamoon really do? I created a honeypot site with a windows 2003 server running IIS. …

I’m creating Virtual Machines …

Paul Brown — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:31:17 +0000

I’m creating Virtual Machines Locally with NxTop 3.0 type 1 client hypervisor http://virtualcomputer.com/node/813 #NxTop

Is it worth deploying VDI ?

Paul Brown — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:45:01 +0000

Over the last couple of days I have configured a POC deployment of XenDesktop over VMWare. Apart from a small stumbling block to do with SSL certificates on the host server it was simple enough to deploy a LAN based XenDesktop environment. Configuring a web based deployment was slightly more challenging but that was more …

XenApp 6 – An error occurred while making the requested connection

Paul Brown — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:41:11 +0000

This is a common error to receive when building a new XenApp 6 farm. The quickest test to run is “qfarm /load” from the XenApp server. if it returns something like:- Server Name Server Load —————————————————– Server1 20000 Then odds in you have …

Are Social Engineering attacks on the increase?

Paul Brown — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:12:03 +0000

"Hello, I am calling because you have a virus on your computer"

vSphere 4.1 & W2k8 R2

Paul Brown — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:21:32 +0000

My core O/S is still W2k3 R2 but I also do have some W2k8 member server. This week I wanted to look at at Xenapp 6 now that one of my projects to upgrade to vSphere 4.1 was underway. Since I run a virtualized infrastructure on VM and Xenapp 6 requires W2k8 R2 the upgrade …

Windows 2008 R2 Licensing the facts

Paul Brown — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:51:21 +0000

I have spent a considerable amount of time looking at licensing requirements for Windows server 2008 R2. Some books refer to it as a major release upgrade whilst others claim it to be a SP upgrade. In truth, licensing is very unique to this release and could almost be considered a new product. The licensing …

BYOC, ai’nt going to happen!!

Paul Brown — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:27:12 +0000

A few years ago the UK governemnt had an incentive to provide households with a cheap PC by offering companies TAX breaks to provide employee’s with computers as part of a salary sacrifice stype deal. Cracking idea, don’t really know why it was withdrawn but I guess it has something to do with the government deciding …