System Administrator Archives

Nov 14 2018

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High Availability versus Disaster Recovery

By Brent Earls | Backups and Business Continuity, High Availability, System Administrator

The main point of disaster recovery (DR) is to decouple it from your production environment. This is the reason that offsite (and offline) backups are so important. Having your backups…

Nov 07 2018

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VMware 6.7 Update 1 Compatibility with Veeam

By Jason Thomas | System Administrator, Veeam, VMware

VMware released Update 1 to vSphere 6.7 the end of September with a lot of cool, new features. However, like always, it’s extremely important to first verify compatibility with your…

Nov 01 2018

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How to Back Up an Azure Server for Local Restore

By Kevin Oppihle | Azure, Microsoft, System Administrator

There are a lot of backup and DR tools out there, Veeam being one of our favorites. However, if you just need a simple way to back up your single…

Oct 24 2018

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How to Migrate Windows Server 2003 File Shares to a New OS

By Kevin Oppihle | System Administrator, Windows

Migration. It’s not just for animals heading south this winter. Sometimes we need to migrate our files within the infrastructure. Let us help make migrating your file server shares to…

Oct 05 2018

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Password Policy Guidelines

By Brent Earls | System Administrator

Creating strong passwords and corporate policies surrounding them have been under debate the past few years. When passwords were originally implemented, it was simply using something someone else wouldn’t easily…

Sep 19 2018

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Options for Dialing on Microsoft Teams

By Leah Weisman | Microsoft, Microsoft Licensing, Skype for Business, System Administrator

Microsoft Teams, collaboration tool, Slack killer … phone system? If you’re unfamiliar with Teams, get out from under that rock! Just kidding. Microsoft Teams is a platform that combines workplace…

Sep 12 2018

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Windows Essentials Server Office 365 Integration Breaks with Windows Update

By Kevin Oppihle | Office 365, Small Business, System Administrator, Windows

The Essentials Server to Office 365 integration tool is great because it automatically replicates the same credentials from in house to Office 365 with little administrative overhead. If you successfully…

Aug 15 2018

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Here’s to You, Accidental Project Manager

By Leah Weisman | Project Management, Small Business, System Administrator

Yes, I stole my headline from Bud Light commercials. In IT, there’s a likely chance you’ll find yourself spearheading a project of some kind – a datacenter move, a migration,…

Jul 18 2018

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PII Data Management Practices and IT (GDPR Or Not)

By Jason Thomas | System Administrator

Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation went into effect on May 25, 2018 and stipulates new requirements for how organizations manage, access, use and store Personal Identifiable Information (PII). This…

Jun 27 2018

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New Features in Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4

By Jason Thomas | Backups and Business Continuity, System Administrator, Veeam, Virtualization

At Veeam’s annual conference, VeeamON, Veeam revealed what the roadmap was for new features in Backup & Replication. You may notice we didn’t title this “Veeam Backup & Replication v10”….