my world of IT

Go into any school these days and it will be hard to avoid any shiny ‘iDevices’ and in support of that I have recently deployed AirServer by App Dynamic. The installer is provided as an MSI although our retailer suggested a command line option to deploy and activate the software for all users of the PC; a very nice idea there… Read more

A few days ago I went out and bought Fallout 3 having heard that its a good game to try if you like the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro series games. However when trying to run the game or update it to the latest available patch version on my Windows 8.1 PC I kept getting the error message- The ordinal 5359 could not… Read more

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

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

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

Since discovering it Munki has made my life looking after Apple Macs measurably easier. In short it allows the centralised deployment of Apple OSX updates as well as the deployment (and updating) of 3rd party software. In the short screen shot guide below I show how to deploy the OSX Impero Client using Munki.

Thin Clients are typically used to connect to VDI/Session hosted environments using though Microsoft/Citrix/VMWare technologies but they do have their other uses… In this post I am going to show you how to setup a 10ZiG thin client (in my case the 5872v) running their custom made Linux PeakOS that will Display status maps from my PRTG network monitor server… Read more

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

When trying to capture a Windows 8.1 (Enterprise 64bit for anyone that wants to keep track) using the System Centre Configuration Manager Capture Image ISO I kept getting the error message Task Sequence: Image Capture Wizard has failed with the error code (0x00004005). For more information, contact your system administrator or helpdesk operator. The image was as normal as any… Read more

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 🙂