my world of IT

After playing with Windows Phone 8.1 on my Nokia Lumia 1020 for the past few days (since general release in the UK) thus far my favourite feature has to be the ability for the phone to automatically turn back on WiFi (after a set period of time) after you turn it off. Certainly where I live and work WiFi is… Read more

The past few weeks at work have been filled up with going from what has been a very successful pilot of Moodle 2.6 to a fully featured install of Moodle 2.7.1. Hopefully as time allows I’ll be able to get out some posts about how each aspect of Moodle goes down with the staff and students but for now this… Read more

In this guide I am going to show how to perform a very basic setup of a HP ProCurve 2610 Layer 2 network switch using a serial to console cable. First up you will need a serial to console cable and a PC that has a serial port. If you don’t have a PC with a serial port (old HPs… Read more

Thanks go to http://fediafedia.com/prank/ for the original code.

This final network is quite possibly the ones that most Schools will shy away from on grounds of ‘security’ – where I work however that just isn’t an option as we have paying users of the school facilities right the way through the evening and weekends. Indeed the weekend after we put this public network in place we have ~110… Read more

The BYOD network is quite possibly the hardest to setup (and thanks to the Smoothwall support guys for spotting an obvious mistake I made on my DHCP config the first time round!) of all 4 of the SSIDs by also the most rewarding when you see 300+ students and staff connected on their Phones, Laptops and Tablet PCs. In a… Read more

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

When setting up an installation of Microsoft Forefront Identity and Lifecycle Manager 2010 R2 going through the initial setup phase to configure common services I was getting the error message The service account could not be found. This could be due to an incorrect password. Please check the service account and try again. As it turns out I was getting… Read more

By comparison to the Domain WiFi setup the configuration for the Apple network is much simpler. The one tiny little exception is that the Apple Discovery Protocol (Bonjour) is by design unable to traverse VLANs. In many networks this wouldn’t be a problem however we have a item of software called AirServer on our Windows clients that ties into the… Read more

If you have a shiny new AudioCodes Mediant 1000 E-SBC with a CRMX-C CPU module and a need to factory reset it then this is the guide for you! Looking at the front of the SBC (photo above) just to the right hand side of the second network port status light is a tiny little hole – perfect for a… Read more