How I was able to make and install the Intel e1000 NIC driver in SLES 10 Linux: Steps 1 through 3 under Building and Installation are simple enough to follow when […]
I’ve been building some new Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers for a new deployment running Windows Server 2003 SP2. I had originally configured the servers to use the integrated Broadcom NICs, […]
Various Microsoft resources have different answers to the amount of free hard drive space needed to install Windows XP SP3. You’ll see that the amount of free disk space required […]
From a command prompt, initiate a connection with the mail server. Use port 143 for IMAP, port 993 for seucre encrypted IMAPs: telnet 192.168.1.60 143 Authenticate to the IMAP server, […]
Howto: Determine the Version of SLES Linux
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To determine the version of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), type the following in a terminal window: cat /etc/SuSE-release or SPident To determine which kernel version is in use, type the […]
I’m working on a Visio drawing of our proposed Groupwise upgrade environment, and needed some better stencils to represents servers and SAN storage than the ones that come with Microsoft […]
Howto: Mount a USB Device in SuSE Linux
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I have a Kingston USB flash drive that does not automatically mount itself on my SLES server on occasion. TID 7000951 explains how to mount the drive manually: 1) From […]
I’ve been working on validating an email server migration plan which has required utilizing test servers isolated from the production network. Because they are offnet, I have to frequently switch […]
Back in October 2007 I struggled with converting a user’s email from Outlook Express (OE) to Outlook. My problem was I neglected to export her OE email prior to joining […]
It seems like Adobe is releasing new Flash Players on a regular basis to deal with security issues. It’s important to remove old versions of Flash Player prior to installing […]