The Problem Just like many corporations, my corporation recently had to scramble for solutions to move our workforce to their homes for COVID-19. For our emergency work from home solution, we used VMWare’s Horizon software for the majority of our workers. This worked great, but there was a small subset that had specialized software on […]
Recently I got brought in on a ticket where the colleague couldn’t connect to our wireless network. Even manually adding the SSID to the computer was met with an error of “Your network administrator has blocked you from connecting to this network.” But why would Windows block an SSID? As I said in a previous […]
Recently I was involved in a project to migrate our workstations on wheels (WOWs) from Windows 7 to an Ubuntu Linux based thin client solution. All was going well until we got to our Stinger R6 (healthcare) carts. These carts had the Intel 7260 Mini PCI-Express card in them. These cards are designed for laptops […]
It’s six o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in, my phone starts ringing next to me, telling me the network is down. Or something like that. Last night I received a call from our helpdesk that one of our departments was complaining about a server not being reachable after a set of power […]
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