"...their vision has been instrumental in our adoption of these technologies before they become buzzwords." - Network Manager at Nelson Mullins
"I would simply say that they do the work you need and do it very well." - Director of IT at Piedmont Healthcare
"Not only are the eGroup engineers extremely good, they have all been able to fit in with my existing staff and build relationships that are beneficial for all of our projects." - VP and CIO, Beaufort Memorial Hospital
We called around to other companies to see who they used and over and over the name eGroup was given. After the first meeting, I knew they had the knowledge and staff to meet our needs." - IT Director, MCAngus, Goudelocke and Courie
"I was skeptical about the amount of work they wanted to do in a short amount of time. But we were able to get it all accomplished in less time than they expected. Totally blew us away." - IT Manager, Horry Electric Cooperative
"With their expertise at our disposal, it is like having additional staff on hand. They have never made us feel like we were just another client. More like colleagues." - IT Manager, Horry Electric Cooperative
Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems (UCS) has acquired the reputation of leading the next-generation of data center platforms by merging together the IT needs of computing, networking, storage access and virtualization into one unified system.
Now until October 29, 2011, Cisco has announced (11) extensively discounted UCS B-Series Blade Server and C-Series Rack-Mount Server Bundles that are fully configured and ready to be implemented in any data center. This is a great opportunity for any company to experience the next-generation of data center platforms with Cisco’s UCS at an exceptionally low entry point.
UCS B-Series Smart Play Promo Summary
The Smart Play UCS B-Series Bundles have (8) options that range from an introductory priced B200 bundle to a high performance B230 Bundle which all include the Cisco M81KR Virtual Interface Card.
A blog post I read this morning spurred on some thoughts today — I’m using a Mac now at work and I need to make it user friendly!
Step 1 – Get good software. Check out this blog post from @Scott_lowe and also let me add two more suggestions. The first is CoRD and the second is Chicken of the VNC.
This method maps a network drive that will disappear if the network connection drops or if you reboot your Mac:
From the Mac OS X Finder, hit Command+K to bring up the ‘Connect to Server’ window. Enter the path to the network drive you want to map, ie: smb://networkcomputer/networkshare and click ‘Connect’. Enter your login/password and click “OK” to mount the network drive. The drive will now appear on your desktop and in the Finder window sidebar
This method allows you to reboot your Mac and have the mapped network drive automatically remount and appear on the desktop, this is more persistent than the above method:
From the Finder, hit Command+K. Enter the path to the network drive you want to map, ie: smb://networkcomputer/networkshare and click ‘Connect’. Enter your login credentials and click “OK”. The drive is now mounted, but continue on to map for system reboot persistence. Now enter into System Preferences, from the Apple menu. Click on ‘Accounts’. Click on “Login Items”. Click on the + button to add another login item. Locate the network drive you previously mounted and click “Add”. Exit out of System Preferences
Does your company have business issues or questions around operations management in your virtual and cloud environments?
vCenter Operations is a clear a quick way to identify VMware performance problems. You can maximize ROI by increasing VM density and also reduce the VMware Administrators time spent isolating performance problem by up to 80%.
VMware vCenter Operations is designed specifically to simplify and automate operations management in virtual and cloud environments. It’s tightly integrated with VMware vSphere and uses patented analytics to provide you with comprehensive and actionable intelligence across the stack. The focus of vCenter Operations is to provide the intelligence and visibility needed to proactively ensure service levels, optimum resource usage and configuration compliance in dynamic virtual and cloud environments.
I am sure most of you know by now that Citrix acquired Cloud.Com last week. Here is a great video that shows off exactly what the Cloud.Com CloudStack offering Citrix now owns is all about.
Trend Micro has recently acquired a leading provider in Full Disk Encryption called Mobile Armor. Trend Micro can now enhance your company to meet all of your encryption and compliance requirements.
Trend Micro’s New Mobile Armor fully protects your critical, sensitive, and confidential data on all types of mobile devices. These mobile devices include laptops, desktops, PDAs, Smart Phones, USB Drives and CD/DVDs. Trend Micro has worked with a wide variety of Corporations & Government Agencies, large and small, to protect their data and meet their regulatory compliance requirements. Below are a list of offerings they can provide to meet your Encryption needs.
-DataArmor is a Software based full disk Encryption solution
-FileArmor is a File & Folder Encryption and Port Device Control Solutions
-KeyArmor is a Fully Encrypted USB Flash Drive with Embedded Anti-Virus
-DriveArmor is a Management, Authentication & Reporting Solution for Self-Encrypting Hard Drives
-PolicyServer is the Command Center for the Mobile Armor Data Encryption & Device Management Suite
If you are interested in any further information please send an email to info@eGroup-us.com or call (843) 284 -0146.
I recently ran into an issue where Outlook was not able to be launched from a XenDesktop session when that application was delivered via XenApp and the Online Client Plugin. The error was: “Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook.” Also noted was when logging into the XenApp server using a published desktop the user also was unable to launch the Control Panel mail.cpl. The error was: “Your system needs more memory or system resources. Close some windows and try again.”
The user having the issue was utilizing a Mandatory Profile created in Windows 7 that was launching from a shared network location. When running Outlook as Administrator the application launched correctly.
An attempt was made to use a PRF to auto configure the Outlook Profile but this produced the same error.
Outlook also failed to launch using any of the typical command line switches such as /resetnavpane, /safe:1, /safe, etc.
Click below to read more about the solution to this issue.
Have you ever had a Cisco access point in a remote location that you upgraded to a lightweight access point, crossed your fingers, and hoped that it associated with your WLC, only to have it fail? You could no longer telnet to the AP, issue it commands, or do anything with it? So how do you recover it?
On your Cisco layer three device, closest to the AP, you just have to enter these commands:
If you are using LWAPP enter this command
Router(config)#ip forward-protocol udp 12223
For CAPWAP use
Router(config)#ip forward-protocol udp 5246
Then under the VLAN interface it connects to enter:
Router(config-int)#ip helper-address 10.0.0.0
Where 10.0.0.0 is the address of you WLC. This will allow your AP to associate with your WLC.
