Cisco ASA 5505 Dual ISP Backup

Published on May 31, 2012 by in Network, Network Admin

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Many small and medium sized businesses are requiring backup paths for their Internet connections while attempting to keep costs at a minimum.  The Cisco ASA 5505 provides a feature called Dual ISP Backup where a company can utilize their main ISP and in the case of an outage, they can utilized a more cost effective [...]

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Did the dog eat your documentation? Sometime I find myself asking this question silently in my head. While not vital, it is an important part of the IT process. I cannot tell you how many times I have been burned dealing with incomplete, out of date or non-existent documentation. Documenting should be a fundamental part [...]

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What is a Disaster Recovery Plan?

Published on May 31, 2012 by in General, SysAdmin

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To many users or companies, it is a backup of critical data to another directory on their computer. When we build a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), we must examine not only the data on the server. We must look at what is required for every user to perform their job. Each area or function of [...]

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Gone are the days of endless hours swapping physical media in and out of computers to install first that shiny new Windows Operating System, then all of your needed applications, as well as customizing the Operating System to your liking, applying patches and finally assigning a name to the machine and joining to the domain. [...]

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What’s in your tool bag?

Published on May 29, 2012 by in UNIX/Linux

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You have a tool bag right? If you are like me and spend time troubleshooting IT issues throughout the day (and night), you probably have accumulated a few programs and scripts that you have a preference for and  keep close at hand.  In this article, I’ll talk about a tool I keep close at hand [...]

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When working with MVC, it is easy to get into the habit of passing large amounts of model data around your different views, including partial views.  It is easier, and much faster to pass the same model, with all of the data you might, or might not need.  In applications where speed and performance must [...]

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In an attempt to sum up all of the “estimated values” located in a field on contract lines within a contract and place that value on the main contract page, I hit up my friend Google and discovered the crmservice of RetrieveMultiple using JScript as described in this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc677077.aspx Using that example, i only [...]

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