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2012-06-20 Updated

2010-12-22 Initial Post

I've never had a chance to work with any version of VMware at work. My last company was so far behind in its IT strategy that even in late 2009 it had absolutely no virtualization strategy at all. I did manage to set up one Hyper-V server for them so that one department could use it for software testing. Where I work now, they do use VMware, but they don't use them on any of the messaging servers that I support. So once again, I have no chance to work with VMware. (more...)

2012-04-10 Updated

2010-02-04 Initial Post

For many years now, I've known about using telnet to connect to port 25 to test SMTP connectivity (see http://support.microsoft.com for how to telnet to port 25 SMTP). I didn't realize until last week that telnet can be used to connect to any open port. (more...)

2011-01-03 Update

2010-12-19 Initial Post

From previous research I know that Hyper-V (as of 2008 R2) still does not support Wi-Fi/wireless networking for use by virtual machine guests (at least not directly-- see my update from 2010-12-27 below); the host itself will support wireless though. With VMware ESXi 4.1 I couldn't find anything that states that even the host will support wireless. ESXi guests might be able to use wireless via VMDirectPath or USB device passthrough, but I haven't fully researched that.

Anyway, the point of this post is that I found a way to get around an issue with how to give my Hyper-V and ESXi hosts access to my home wireless network. (more...)

2011-02-05 Updated

2010-11-03 Initial Post

I set up my new Canon PIXMA MX350 today. So far, I really like it overall. But two things that I don't like are: 1) It's HUGE compared to my old HP Officejet 5610 All-In-One, and 2) It has a vertical paper tray in the back. I won't go into more detail because the main purpose of this post is to note some information about the network part of the device.

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2011-01-13 Updated

2010-10-17 Initial Post

Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise

I decided to give this another shot today and try to figure out how to create multiple subnets/virtual networks so that I can set up a more realistic AD infrastructure with multiple sites/subnets. (more...)