Use a Gmail Account for Customer Alerts
An important part of being a Managed Service Provider is getting alerts from customer software and devices. I’ve been streamlining this lately and like this approach. Besides allowing you to …
XProtect Essential Event Names Issue
In XProtect Essential 2016 R3, I’m configuring a six-camera system. I want to use the cameras’ built-in motion detection, but after setting that up on the first camera, I could …
3CX 15 Tunnel Not Listening
TL;DR If your 3CXPhone app and/or your desktop phone are not able to connect to a remote 3CX server, test connectivity to the server on 3CX tunnel port 5090. If …
Set Up VLANs with Tomato and a Cisco Small Business Switch
I blogged five years ago about setting up guest wireless with Tomato. For that, I just plugged a separate switch into a router port dedicated to the wireless VLAN. Worked …
Read Registry from Restored Backup
I mentioned this in an earlier thread but wanted to put it in its own short article. Sometimes you need to get data from an earlier version of the registry. …
GoldMine Pending Tab Preview Won’t Stay Hidden
In GoldMine 2015.2.0.208, I was having trouble getting the Preview Pane to stay hidden on the Pending tab. Also, the column widths kept reverting to some default and the Filter …
Windows 7 Slow Updating
Windows 7 updating will take forever on a fresh install or if you haven’t updated in a while. This is covered in many online articles but I’m needing it often …
Windows 10 Post-Install Tasks
Due to problems installing a cumulative update, I decided to delete my Windows partition and install Windows 10 Pro x64 1607 from scratch. Windows 10 does an amazing job of …
Convert a Cisco 1130AG Access Point from LWAPP to Autonomous Mode
A Cisco 1130AG access point died. Model AIR-LAP1131AG-A-K9. Bought a replacement on eBay. The eBay one was running the Lightweight Access Protocol (LWAPP). Here’s how I got it back to …
Re-Install OmniPage Ultimate 19
I recently re-installed Windows 10 Pro and needed to get my OmniPage Ultimate 19 software working like it was before. I had a file system backup but had not otherwise …