Make no mistake I’m all for PRTG as my preferred Network Monitoring software so when I was asked to be featured in a case study I jumped at the chance. That study is now live and can be seen here – http://www.paessler.com/company/casestudies/oxford_spires_uses_prtg Another similar article can also be seen here – http://www.networkingplus.co.uk/case-study-details?itemid=351
Category: Servers
Servers power many organisations and are even making their way into homes (even if it is a simple NAS box). With more RAM then you could even imagine (I have to admit I’m a RAM addict) and processors that make the latest and greatest gaming PC look minuscule in comparison it is these mighty machines that make the world go round.
WebDAV – Access Windows File Shares outside the firewall on any device – Part 3 – Guides + More reading
So you now have your WebDAV server setup and its time to get this out to your users. To help you along you feel free to edit the guides below to your particular requirements. For further reading take a look at the links below- Basic setup of a WebDAV site on IIS.net – http://www.iis.net/learn/install/installing-publishing-technologies/installing-and-configuring-webdav-on-iis Basic setup of WebDAV on seanashton.net… Read more
WebDAV – Access Windows File Shares outside the firewall on any device – Part 2 – The server setup
In the previous article in this series we looked at the topology needed to setup a WebDAV infrastructure. I’ll assume that You have a public DNS record which points to a IP address on your firewall which is in turn port forwarding 443 (HTTPS) to your IIS server (this also works through Web Application Proxys like the ones built into Smoothwall… Read more
WebDAV – Access Windows File Shares outside the firewall on any device – Part 1 – The basics
Every once in a while a magical bit of software comes along that makes life so very good; today that software is WebDAV and its been around so long that some people might have forgotten how good it is. The premise goes You have one or more internal Windows Server(s) which hosts users personal documents and shared drives You would… Read more
How to enable sFlow on a HP ProCurve switch to use with PRTG Network Monitor
PRTG is by far my favoured tool for monitoring IT infrastructure. With its built in sensors you can check the PING time for a server, check that windows services are up and running or with a little tweaking monitor paper trays in a MFP (and so much more). A recently discovered feature for me is the sFlow monitor. This tracks… Read more
What happens to the Internet during a fire drill?
As some readers maybe aware I work in a Secondary School; part of working life at any school is the odd fire alarm/drill. Looking up at my PRTG status monitor screens its quite easy to see at what time that drill happened. Nothing more than a novelty but hey thought it was intresting to see 🙂
hpmsn141.dll has stopped working
After deploying a number of HP printers using the HP Universal Printing Driver PCL 6 (61.141.1.15198 for anyone who might be counting) I found that a number of users were getting the error message hpmsn141.dll has stopped working when trying to print, although they can click close program and the print goes through fine it is quite an annoyance. Although… Read more
Network Deployed Printers are not appearing in Directory
For a few days I’ve found that printers that have been published in Active Directory (from our 2008 R2 printer server) were not appearing in the directory or find printers tabs (see above). With about 120 printers deployed and only 5 showing up there had to be something wrong. As it turns out the Printer Service was starting before the… Read more
Bare metal recovery – Element not found (0x80070490)
I’ve recently been testing our disaster recovery abilities particularly in restoring servers from the bare metal recovery feature of System Centre Data Protection Manager 2012. When restoring one of our servers (that is a virtual machine) I was getting the error message below just before the drive data starts to copy over. The system image restore failed. Error details: Element… Read more
Windows Server Remote Desktop won’t let me save credentials
One of the little niggles that you can get with Windows Server (2008 SP2 in my case) is a remote desktop connection will not let you use saved credentials to login remotely with the following error message. Your credentials did not work The server’s authentication policy does not allow connection requests using saved credentials. Please enter new credentials. The fix… Read more