• What needs to be backed up?
• How often does it need to be backed up?
• How much space is available to store backups?
• What is your retention policy?
• How many backups do you keep on hand for emergency situations?
• Do backups need to be stored offsite? If so, should they be stored in a different geographical location (East Coast vs West Coast)?
• How quickly can you recover and restore those backups?
• Have you tested your backup plan?
• Have you tested the restore process of those backups?

These are the basic questions you should be asking when coming up with a Disaster Recovery plan.  The answers will guide you to creating the disaster recovery plan that you need for your business.  It will also give you the peace of mind that your data is protected and will never be ‘lost’.

If you need assistance in creating, reviewing, implementing, or testing your Disaster Recovery plan then send us an email at sales@egroup-us.com and we will be happy to help!

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The Forum, titled “Building Organizations with Technology to Achieve High Performance and a Distinct Competitive Advantage”, took place against the beautiful backdrop of the Inn on Biltmore in Asheville, NC.  The content theme focused on “Three Mega Technology Trends: BYOD, Collaboration, Cloud” impacting our customer’s business and how they can leverage for a competitive advantage.

To see more photos from the event, please click here.

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Join the eGroup Roundtable for a live discussion from WMworld 2012 on Wednesday, August 29th at 9:30 am ET.

eGroup’s Rich Young (Marketing and Communications Manager) and Jason Webster (Application Services Manager) will provide an introduction to the new eGroup Roundtable series and give you the low down on what to expect!

Hear from technology thought leaders Ian Jones (Data Services Practice Area Lead, eGroup) and John Flisher (Senior Technical Consultant, eGroup) on all of the hottest topics and breaking news LIVE from VMworld. There will also be an opportunity for Q&A from the audience!

Join us, and be one of the first to be “in the know”!

MEETING INFORMATION:

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/382426928

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

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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.  

UCS C-Series Smart Play Promo Summary

The Smart Play UCS C-Series Bundles have (3) options that are equally priced to be among the most competitive price point in the market.  These C-Series Smart Play Bundles have both the C200 and C210 Rack Mount Servers and all include the P81E Virtual Interface Card.

For further information and pricing on these Cisco Smart Play Bundle Promotions, please email insidesales@eGroup-us.com  or call 1877-eGroup-1.

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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.

Step 2 – Map network drives (from http://j.mp/qy8UrH)

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

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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. 

 Some Key Benefits include:

     -Actionable intelligence to automate manual operations processes

     -Visibility across infrastructure and applications for rapid problem resolution

     -Proactively ensures optimal resource utilization and virtual and cloud infrastructure performance

     -At a glance view of operational and regulatory compliance across physical and virtual

Eliminate Manual Effort for Automated Operations Management

Gain maximum efficiency and agility with analytics and a policy-based approach to automate performance, capacity and configuration management. Eliminate the finger pointing. Reduce manual problem solving efforts by as much as 40% with automated root cause analysis. 

Proactively Manage Virtual Infrastructure Performance

Get proactive warning of performance issues before problems affect end users. Real-time performance dashboards let you meet SLAs by pinpointing building performance issues before end users notice. 

Ensure Operational and Regulatory Compliance

Manage compliance automatically with a policy-based approach and out-of-the-box configuration templates. Ensure compliance with policy control across both virtual and physical aspects of your datacenter infrastructure.

 Optimal Resource Utilization

Ensure right-sized virtual/cloud infrastructure through comprehensive capacity management. Users typically achieve 15% to 80% utilization improvements and run 3-5 times more VMs on the same hardware by reclaiming over-provisioned capacity.

For more information on vCenter Operations, please call 1-877-eGROUP-1 or e-mail us at insidesales@eGroup-us.com!

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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.

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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.

When removing the Mandatory Profile from the users AD Account and clearing the profile off of the XenApp server Outlook launched correctly.

The cause of this issue was that the user was unable to access a necessary key in HKCU that stores Profile Information. This was the reason mail.cpl was unable to launch and thus so was Outlook. It was preventing the creation of the profile for that user.

The solution was to rename the NTUSER.man file back to NTUSER.dat, load the hive into the registry and rename or delete the following key:

HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWindows Messaging Subsystem

After doing this, the hive was unloaded and the file renamed back to NTUSER.man and copied back into the Mandatory Profile folder in the shared network location.

After re-launching Outlook both from XenDesktop and XenApp it was able to successfully start and a profile was created. In reviewing HKCU in the registry it was noted that a new Key was created to replace the one removed from NTUSER.man and it was accessible to the user. The mail.cpl applet was also able to be launched by the user.

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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.

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