Cisco 1130 AP devices – From Ecstacy to Agony

February 11, 2010

We have gone through a few Cisco wireless devices which originated from their acquisition of Aironet.  The first AP-350 devices had a simple GUI for configuration  and were extremely reliable.  Unfortunately, they were only using 802.11b and had problems with some of the early 3rd party WLAN cards.  The move to Cisco IOS later in [...]

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Exchange 2003 SP2 on 2008 R2 domain? Not so fast

January 3, 2010

There has been a lot of discussion about running Exchange 2003 SP2 on a Windows 2003 server while upgrading the domain to Windows 2008 R2 native mode. There are two real authorities that I rely upon and unfortunately there is disagreement.
First is Microsoft TechNet. According to their Exchange Server Supportability Matrix, last updated on 12-09-2009, [...]

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GoDaddy Changes SSL Policy Without Warning

September 19, 2009

I just got a notice that my SSL certificates were going to expire and it was time to renew at GoDaddy (http://www.godaddy.com).  Not a problem.  Just go to their website and renew the certificate in a few clicks.  Matter of fact, we just renewed a previous certificate a couple weeks ago and it was easy, [...]

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Thinking CMS Portal? Thinking SharePoint? Think Liferay — and save in every way

August 2, 2009

We have been working with Sharepoint since the 2001 version came out.  It’s main purpose was to act as a Content Management System (CMS) for document control within our manufacturing area.  It quickly expanded to be our corporate Intranet site with areas for each operational department.  In that version, it was fairly difficult to get people to use [...]

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VMware vSphere 4 licensing shows contempt for customers

July 31, 2009

By now you have read that VMware has released vSphere 4 with new capabilities and features.  But did you know that they changed their licensing model?  There are lots of changes to accept and for a lot of us, the cost just went up a notch.  Surprise!  At no time did VMware notify their users [...]

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Bad Behavior Workaround – Dealing with Windows Live

May 9, 2009

I have been working with Windows 7 recently and since it does not ship with Windows Messenger, I had to install Windows Live Messenger on it.  In doing so, I noticed a lot of new features in that product, including integration with a number of Web 2.0 items.  One of those features is to add [...]

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