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Systems Administration

Fixing Spark Instant Messenger Too Many Custom Status Messages

I know a lot of companies out there use Ignite Realtime’s Openfire Server, and their Spark Instant Messaging client. Mostly because it’s free and easy to set up. It’s a great product and I highly recommend checking it out if you’re looking for a good Open Source instant messaging server with a lot of functionality […]

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Systems Administration

Fix External and Internal Email Server DNS Conflicts

This might be an old trick, but it’s never been one I  have been able to easily remedy. I’ve worked and done a lot of jobs at a lot of places where this has been a problem, especially on Windows networks. With Linux-based DNS servers, this isn’t such a huge trick. When you set up […]

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shoretel Systems Administration

Importing a WAVE File into a ShoreTel Voicemail Greeting

Sometimes you need to import a WAVE file into a user’s voicemail greeting. This might be because their connection to your ShoreTel server isn’t great, they’re on the road or any of a number of other reasons. Unfortunately there’s no tool to do this in ShoreWare Director. Or at least there isn’t in older versions, there […]

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Systems Administration

Connecting To Servers Without Remoting In

More of a quick tip than a real How To, but I’m surprised how many Systems Administrators don’t know this. A lot of the tasks you do on your local workstations that you also do on your servers can be done remotely without any sort of third-party tools. You can connect to the Services, Computer […]

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Systems Administration

InfoMaker 10.5 Fix

Quick post! I had a user whose InfoMaker 10.5 was just crashing when she opened a report. It would give the infamous “Check for solutions online” dialog box when you opened a report from the library. Any report at all would cause the crash. I fought with this for two days before I found the […]