I’ve always had problems using the automatic upgrade feature available with Wordpress for both plugins and Wordpress itself.  For as often as I have to do it, it didn’t really bother me to download the update manually and apply it, so I didn’t rea …

List of Default Usernames/Passwords/IP Addresses for all Sonicwall devices. https://www.fuzeqna.com/sonicwallkb/consumer/kbdetail.asp?kbid=3641

Recently, while upgrading the firmware on a Pro 3060, from 4.2.0.0 to 4.2.1.0, I received the error message “Firmware too large for this device”.  After a short bit of research, I found that when receiving this error message, you must boot into Safe Mo …

Recently I had an Exchange migration from 2003 to 2007 and had an issue with a few users who were unable to receive calendar invites and users were unable to view their calendars.  I came across a Microsoft article which had the fix for us, it required …

Autodiscover is a very nice service to have, especially internally, but it can be a pain if it’s not configured correctly.  When purchasing an SSL certificate, if it’s not purchased for the server name, (which it’s usually not) it will give certificate …

There is a new feature in Outlook 2007 to autodiscover all mail settings based on your email address.  To set this up for your domain, all that is required is a mail server that supports the autodiscover service and creating SRV records.  Usually the i …

A couple quick commands to export/import mailboxes using the PST format in Exchange 2007.  These must be run from the Exchange Tools Console on a 32-bit machine. Export-Mailbox –Identity <mailboxUser> -PSTFolderPath <pathToSavePST> The foll …

I have recently come across an interesting discovery, which can be attributed to my lack of a large amount of expertise or experience in VMware ESX and ESXi.  By default, the block size for new data stores is 1MB, which allows for a maximum VHD si …

Recently, while I was trying to clear off space on the system drive of a client’s server, I found that the file hiberfil.sys (hibernation File) existed there, and was the same size as the page file (which was about 10GB).  I was curious as to why this …

After upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, your address lists and email address policies will continue to work, but you will not be able to edit them.  In order to upgrade them to Exchange 2007, I have included a few quick commands as well as …

Recently we performed some maintenance on our Exchange server at the office, we had to reinstall the Client Access Role in an attempt to regain OWA functionality.  After the maintenance was completed, we found that we were no longer receiving external …

Although I have not tested this yet, Microsoft has posted a way to convert from Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk in Windows XP/Server 2003.  It appears to be somewhat risky, and that is noted at the top of the link to the article here (Workaround Section), b …