VMWare ESX Server Admin Tips (What they don’t teach you in class!)

Unless you happen to be the developer, or involved in the code writing process it is rare that you will learn all the “undocumented features” of any given software.  Such is the case for myself and one of the techs I manage involving VMWare’s ESX server product.  The company we work for went completely virtual […]

Becoming a GACP (Google AdWords Certified Professional) Seminars for Success

I’m breaking up my “Becoming a GACP….” post to write about my experience attending the Seminars for Success – Google Web Optimizer one day course.  I really wanted to attend the two day Google Analytics seminars, but I had a personal commitment on the second day, so I decided to sit those out. The seminar […]

Becoming a GACP (Google AdWords Certified Professional) Part 1

I have discussed becoming a GACP (Google AdWords Certified Professional) in a previous post, so feel free to check it out.  I have decided that I am committed to adding this certification to my resume and have started watching the videos in the Google Learning Center. I have finished the first section and for the […]

Cleaning up your Exchange Mail Store!

I was recently tasked with cleaning up an exchange mail store that was nearing the 75 GB limit for the Exchange 2003 server it was being used on.  (In actually, the mail store was 45GB and the public folder store was 26GB putting the total for the store near 71GB.)  The event log indicated that […]

How to change the default location for the “My Documents” folder.

To change the default location of the My Documents folder, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, and then point to My Documents. 2. Right-click My Documents, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Target tab. 4. In the Target box, do one of the following: * Type the path to the folder location that you […]

Forcing a Time Sync to your Domain Controllers.

Last week immediately following the time shift for “daylight savings” we noticed our Primary Domain Controler (PDC) and our Backup Domain Controler (BDC) had a time difference of greater than 30 mins.  This was not caused by the time shift, but something we discovered while checking to see if our infrastructure had updated the time […]

How to convert your Domain Profile to a Local Profile.

This is useful when you have been doing consultant work on your own laptop, while joined to a clients domain, and you wish to leave said company while still retaining all the work and setting you had while joined to their domain. I’ve found doing a manual transfer to be more reliable then using the […]

Make Money! Become a Google Adwords Certified Professional! (GACP)

I was surfing the web looking for some info about Google’s Ad-Words program when I came upon a company charging $250 dollars an hour for someone with a GACP certification to set up my advertising campaign. So I said to myself, “what the heck is a GACP?” Turns out GACP or Google Adwords Certified Professional […]

Places for Information Technology Professionals to moonlight!

Looking to pick up some supplemental income?  Then here are a few places you should try out. ONFORCE, is one site I have used extensively. You sign up and submit your skill set and location. They will send you text messages when jobs are available in your area. You can bid on the jobs, and […]

“Windows can not find SYSOCMGR.exe” error message when connecting to network fax with Vista client.

When you try to connect to a remote fax printer on a computer that is running Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Enterprise, the fax installation fails, and you get “Windows can not find SYSOCMGR.exe” error message! This issue occurs because fax installation tries to install the fax feature by using the Windows Components Wizard […]