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9 Smart Ways for Small Businesses to Incorporate Generative AI
There is no escaping the relentless march of AI. Software companies are rapidly incorporating it into many business tools. This includes tools like Microsoft 365,
9 Smart Ways for Small Businesses to Incorporate Generative AI
There is no escaping the relentless march of AI. Software companies are rapidly incorporating it into many business tools. This includes tools like Microsoft 365,
Escape Sequence for a SM-X switch module in a 4000 series ISR
On the pre 4000 series ISRs you would use the regular Cisco escape sequence to exit a service module — CTRL-SHIFT-6 followed by X. In the 44xx and 43xx series routers the switch modules do not respond to the regular escape sequence from the console. Instead, to escape back to
Restart a single context on an ASA with virtual instances
The Cisco ASA firewall can run as virtual host for multiple virtual ASA’s known as contexts. We recently ran into an issue where a memory leak made one context inoperable. Rather than reload the entire ASA and take out the other contexts we wanted to only restart the context that was having
Ruckus AP not connecting to Virtual SmartZone
Here are a list of things to troubleshoot when a Ruckus AP is not registering to a Virtual SmartZone (VSZ) cloud controller. Ensure that the public IP address of the site where the AP resides is permitted through the firewall protecting the VSZ. Check that the AP has a valid private IP address
Upgrading IOS-XE firmware on a 4000 series router
Had an issue where I was not able to successfully upgrade the IOS firmware on a Cisco 4351 router. This model of router runs IOS-XE and has some slight differences in feature set compared to legacy IOS. For example “ip dns server” was not an available command in the version the
Barracuda ADC Load Balancer – How to show client IPs and not the proxy IP address – Part 2
In my first post on showing the client IP addresses through a Barracuda ADC load balancer, I showed how to get Direct Server Return to work for clients on the same network by adding loopback interfaces on the back-end servers. In this post I will discuss a problem when using a layer 7
Barracuda ADC Load Balancer – How to show client IPs and not the proxy IP address – Part 1
In order to see the client origination IP address on the real back-end servers when a Barracuda ADC load balancer is used there are two options. The first is to use layer 4 load balancing on the service type. The other option is to use a layer 7 proxy service and
Speed up Mailbox Migration to Exchange 2013
As an IT managed services company we’re often asked to do various IT projects. We found a solution for moving email mailboxes from Exchange 2007 or 2010 to Exchange 2013 that can often go very slowly, even when the network and server resources are fast and abundant! The Exchange Mailbox
NetFlow setup for 3750x with C3KX-SM-10G
The Cisco 3750x switch does not support NetFlow natively, but the C3KX-SM-10G module has ASICs that support NetFlow. With the C3KX-SM-10G module, NetFlow can only be run on the 4 interfaces in the module — this does not add NetFlow on the entire switch. It is however possible to capture the
Barracuda ADC Load Balancer with OWA – Login loop
We had a problem with Barracuda’s ADC load balancer and Outlook Web App for Exchange 2013. The user would get to the OWA login screen and login only to be brought back to the login screen again in an endless loop. We were using the “Instant SSL” service type as
Exchange 2013 DAG: Can’t add a database copy
IT Support We had an issue when attempting to add a database copy for any mailbox databases in a new DAG. We received one of the following errors every time, regardless of the source or destination server. The seeding operation failed. Error: An error occurred while running prerequisite checks. Error:
Exchange 2013 – Can’t access ECP, 500 Unexpected Error
We had an issue with a client migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2013 where we couldn’t access ECP on any of the new 2013 CAS servers. Instead we received the following: 500 Unexpected error : ( An error occurred and your request couldn’t be completed. Please try again.
Ubiquiti AP powers up & reachable via wifi, but no link on LAN
We’ve seen this happen twice recently with different customers so thought we should post our solution. We have seen where a Ubiquiti AP (NanoBeam & NanoStation) will power up via the power injector and the unit is reachable via wireless, but there is no link light on the switch or to a laptop