(3179,6,'2011-01-28 17:09:23','2011-01-28 22:09:23','<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Symantec-BESR1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3326\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Symantec-BESR1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"108\" /></a><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Symantec-BESR.jpg\"></a>\n\nI have been a big fan of Symantec Products, especially their Backup Exec software suite, for some time. Fact of the matter this is not their first rodeo. Symantec has been in the backup game for many moons. Attaining the software from Veritas was a great call, and they have matured the product over the years into a bonafied rock star.<!--more-->\n\nThier newest addition to the line up is the Backup Exec System Recovery offerings. If you are not familiar with these, grab some of the trailware and take if for a spin.\n\nVersion 8.5 was discussed in January of 2009 - <strong><a href=\"http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=20\">LINK</a></strong>\n\nMike Carter used BESR to ease the transition over to his MAC Book last July - <a href=\"http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=2397\"><strong>LINK</strong></a>\n\nVersion 2010 is out and its even better. Since its creation, BESR, has always been very reliable, straight forward, and intuitive. If the name of the game is being able to restore and get a system backup in minutes - even to different hardware, then BESR is in that game and doing a mighty fine job of it.\n<h2>BESR comes in the following flavors, so there is certainly a flavor to fit the bill in your specific circumstance:</h2>\n<a href=\"http://www.symantec.com/business/backup-exec-system-recovery-linux-edition\"><strong>Linux Edition</strong></a><strong> - </strong>New!\n\n<a href=\"http://www.symantec.com/business/backup-exec-system-recovery-virtual-edition\"><strong>Virtual Edition</strong></a> - New!\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.symantec.com/business/backup-exec-system-recovery-desktop-edition\">Desktop Edition</a></strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.symantec.com/business/backup-exec-system-recovery-server-edition\">Server Edition</a></strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.symantec.com/business/backup-exec-system-recovery-windows-small-business-server-edition\">Small Business Edition</a></strong>\n\nOne of the great uses that I have had success with is using BESR Desktop Edition and protecting key laptops in organizations. Having coverage for the Top Brass is always a good practice, and being able to have them back up in 15 minutes or so from a complete hardware failure is good piece of mind.\n<h2>There are some great new features and offerings with the lastest version:</h2>\n<strong>Support for Server 2008 R2</strong>\n\n<strong>Support for Windows 7 and Exchange 2010</strong>\n\n<strong>New Virtual Edition</strong> - Recogize amazing cost savings: Purchase a single license of virtual edition and protect an unlimited number of Windows Guests per host\n\n<strong>New Linux Edition</strong> - Perform image level backups of Red Hat and SUSE easily\n\n<strong>Backup Exec System Reovery Management Solution</strong> - Highly scalable management solution of BESR 8.0, 8.5 and 2010\n\n<strong>Enhanced Virtual Environment Support</strong>\n\nSymantec has a very good <a href=\"http://eval.symantec.com/flashdemos/products/besr/\"><strong>Video Tour</strong> </a>that can get you up to speed in minutes.\n\nNot too mention you can use if free for 60 Days. The entire product, not just portions of it.\n\nCheck it out and let me know what you think.','SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC SYSTEM RECOVERY (BESR) AND HOW IT CAN HELP YOU','','publish','open','open','','symantec-backup-exec-system-recovery-besr-and-how-it-can-help-you','','','2011-01-28 17:09:23','2011-01-28 22:09:23','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3179',0,'post','',0),(3348,16,'2011-01-31 14:09:38','2011-01-31 19:09:38','Recently, the eGroup development team was tasked with a fairly complex data migration from one CMS to another due to an acquisition that occurred early in 2010. During the process it was discovered that the T-SQL that had been written was not returning the newest data that was expected from the query. The database schema was complex, abstract and because of an upgrade several years back there was data stored in different schema sets within the same database. Due to the limited time available to finish the project I took a brute-force approach and wrote a script to search the entire database for some desired values. In this case, I wanted to find any tables, with any columns, that were of a datetime column type and contained data greater than a certain date. This is not the most advanced script and is certainly not breaking any new ground but it is handy to have in the toolbox and something I will certainly use again.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<em>Disclaimer: avoid running on production systems with large datasets during production hours. It queries only 1 tablecolumn at a time but could run for a lengthy period if enough columns are found that meet the desired criteria.\n</em>\n\nThe script prints out a very basic resultset containing the table name, column name, the number of rows discovered meeting the search criteria, as well as (in this case) the maximum date found in that tablecolumn combination. Again, by no means a complicated script, but something that I was able to use to nail down specifically which tables and columns contained the data that I was looking for. This database had several thousand tables with 10 - 100 columns each - all very abstractly named.<em>\n</em>\n\nSET NOCOUNT ON\n\nDECLARE @tableName varchar(100),\n@tableId int,\n@columnName varchar(100),\n@minDate datetime,\n@foundRows int,\n@maxDate datetime,\n@dataType int\n\nSET @minDate = \'4/1/2010\'\nSET @foundRows = 0\nSET @dataType = 61\n\nDROP TABLE #results\nCREATE TABLE #results (numRows int, maxDate datetime)\n\nDECLARE tableCursor CURSOR FOR\n\nSELECT name, id\nFROM sysobjects\nWHERE xtype IN (\'U\',\'V\')\n\nOPEN tableCursor\n\nFETCH NEXT FROM tableCursor INTO @tableName, @tableId\n\nWHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0\nBEGIN\n\nDECLARE columnCursor CURSOR FOR\nSELECT name\nFROM syscolumns\nWHERE id = @tableId AND xtype = dataType\n\nOPEN columnCursor\n\nFETCH NEXT FROM columnCursor INTO @columnName\n\nWHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0\nBEGIN\nDELETE FROM #results\nEXEC (\'INSERT #results SELECT COUNT(*), MAX(\' + @columnName + \') FROM \' + @tableName + \' WHERE \' + @columnName + \' &gt; \'\'\' + @minDate + \'\'\'\')\n\nSELECT @foundRows = numRows FROM #results\nSELECT @maxDate = maxDate FROM #results\n\nIF(@foundRows &gt; 0)\nBEGIN\nPRINT @tableName + \' - \' + @columnName + \' - \' + CONVERT(varchar(100),@foundRows) + \' - \' + CONVERT(varchar(100),@maxDate,101)\nEND\n\nFETCH NEXT FROM columnCursor INTO @columnName\nEND\n\nCLOSE columnCursor\nDEALLOCATE columnCursor\n\nFETCH NEXT FROM tableCursor INTO @tableName, @tableId\nEND\n\nCLOSE tableCursor\nDEALLOCATE tableCursor\n<div style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">SET NOCOUNT ON\n\nDECLARE @tableName varchar(100),\n@tableId int,\n@columnName varchar(100),\n@minDate datetime,\n@foundRows int,\n@maxDate datetime\n\nSET @minDate = \'4/1/2010\'\nSET @foundRows = 0\n\nDROP TABLE #results\nCREATE TABLE #results (numRows int, maxDate datetime)\n\nDECLARE tableCursor CURSOR FOR\n\nSELECT name, id\nFROM sysobjects\nWHERE xtype IN (\'U\',\'V\')\n\nOPEN tableCursor\n\nFETCH NEXT FROM tableCursor INTO @tableName, @tableId\n\nWHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0\nBEGIN\n\nDECLARE columnCursor CURSOR FOR\nSELECT name\nFROM syscolumns\nWHERE id = @tableId AND xtype = 61\n\nOPEN columnCursor\n\nFETCH NEXT FROM columnCursor INTO @columnName\n\nWHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0\nBEGIN\nDELETE FROM #results\nEXEC (\'INSERT #results SELECT COUNT(*), MAX(\' + @columnName + \') FROM \' + @tableName + \' WHERE \' + @columnName + \' &gt; \'\'\' + @minDate + \'\'\'\')\n\nSELECT @foundRows = numRows FROM #results\nSELECT @maxDate = maxDate FROM #results\n\nIF(@foundRows &gt; 0)\nBEGIN\nPRINT @tableName + \' - \' + @columnName + \' - \' + CONVERT(varchar(100),@foundRows) + \' - \' + CONVERT(varchar(100),@maxDate,101)\nEND\n\nFETCH NEXT FROM columnCursor INTO @columnName\nEND\n\nCLOSE columnCursor\nDEALLOCATE columnCursor\n\nFETCH NEXT FROM tableCursor INTO @tableName, @tableId\nEND\n\nCLOSE tableCursor\nDEALLOCATE tableCursor\n\n</div>','HANDY T-SQL SCRIPT: DATABASE WIDE SEARCH','','publish','open','open','','handy-t-sql-script-database-wide-search','','','2011-01-31 14:09:38','2011-01-31 19:09:38','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3348',0,'post','',0),(3355,44,'2011-01-31 14:30:26','2011-01-31 19:30:26','<div>\n\nWe all want to know more about our infrastructure status, and especially concerning our virtualization initiatives.\n\nEnter VMware Health Analyzer, a robust virtual appliance that gives a great snapshot of your current VMware infrastructure and provides a report card.  What\'s really cool about this report card is the fact that it also supplies not only the observations from the scan, but also recommendations for adhering to VMware best practices.\n\nI would claim this as an invaluable tool for getting a really good handle on your VMware environment.  Plus it helps open the door for catching any of the items that may have been overlooked during the initial infrastructure setup.\n\nUnfortunately, right now this tool is only available to VMware Partners, but fortunately, eGroup is just that - a VMware Premier Partner.  If you would like more information, or want to schedule to run this tool, contact eGroup to find out when you can start getting a handle on your VMware investment.\n\n</div>','ANALYZE YOUR VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE','','publish','open','open','','analyze-your-virtual-infrastructure','','','2011-01-31 14:30:26','2011-01-31 19:30:26','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3355',0,'post','',0),(3359,16,'2011-02-01 12:06:43','2011-02-01 17:06:43','The eGroup application services and development is currently working on a complex SharePoint 2010 deployment that involves Nintex workflow creation of sites using site templates and web services. While preparing for a demonstration we decided to remove all test sites that had been created up until that point and there were more than 50!.I\'m certain you can all imagine the realization of how long this would take when faced with 5 minutes before demo time! Entering each site, visiting site settings, choosing to delete the site, confirming, rinse and repeat would have take 30+ minutes. A quick script solved the problem for us - read more to see this simple and effective script.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nWe needed to deploy RegularExpressions in our solution as other sites are housed in this same collection - such as our all important Site Template that has many hours of customizations and is used to spin up the individual sites that we were attempting to delete. The solution is below.\n\n<em>Note the -WhatIf option in the Remove-SPWeb command. This will prevent the action from actually being executed and will instead report what would happen it this command were allowed to run. Please test before removing this option! Also, the -Confirm:$false option will suppress all \"are you sure\" prompts and will silently perform the request commands. Please remove this command after removing the -WhatIf option to be sure it is going to delete the desired sites. It also would not hurt to break out the RegEx commands and test them independently before executing this command. Remove-SPWeb could be replaced by Write-Output $_.Name.</em>\n\n<em>As with any destructive commands take a good backup before running the script!</em>\n\nGet-SPSite https://RootSite/WhereSitesExist/ | Get-SPWeb -Limit ALL | ForEach-Object{\nif ([regex]::IsMatch($_.Name,\"RegExToMatchSiteName\"))\n{\nRemove-SPWeb -WhatIf -Identity $_.Url -Confirm:$false\n}\n}','SHAREPOINT 2010 MANAGEMENT SHELL - REGEX BASED SITE DELETION','','publish','open','open','','sharepoint-2010-management-shell-regex-based-site-deletion','','','2011-02-01 12:06:43','2011-02-01 17:06:43','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3359',0,'post','',0),(3363,44,'2011-02-01 16:22:38','2011-02-01 21:22:38','<div>\n\nOne of the toughest things in recent Microsoft history that seems to be plaguing tons of IT departments is Exchange 2010 migrations.\n\nThough Microsoft has a ton of documentation on the subject, the trouble is trying to piece all the parts together into a somewhat reasonable explanation of how the system actually works, especially when in reference to moving users mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.\n\nAfter now doing a few of these migrations, I ran into a new problem when dealing with ActiveSync.\n\nThere is a hotfix provided by Microsoft for users that are connecting to a 2010 CAS for redirection back to a 2003 server.  This hotfix is located <a title=\"Exchange ActiveSync Hotfix\" href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937031\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> that allows the 2010 CAS servers to be able to access the 2003 Mailboxes via Windows Integrated Authentication.\n\nHowever, I did recently run into a different issue that is well documented, but not at the level that where I needed to make the change.\n\n<!--more--><img src=\"http://stevesgeeklab.wordpress.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" />\n\nAfter migrating one of the IT users mailbox from 2003 to 2010, I found that I could not get that user to access ActiveSync from their mobile device.  I tested it out at <a href=\"https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/\">https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/</a> and kept getting a HTTP 500 response failure.\n\nEverywhere I looked, I found the same answer.  For users in a protected OU (like Domain Admins), browse to the user in Active Directory Users and Computers and set their security settings to \"Include inheritable permissions from this object\'s parent\" (see TechNet article <a title=\"TechNet Article\" href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd439375(EXCHG.80).aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>)\n\nAfter making the changes to the user listed in the article above, I would still not be able to access ActiveSync.  But the fix was a little deeper.\n\nI noticed that after replication had taken place between the Domain Controllers, the user in question\'s security setting for \"Include inheritable permissions from this object\'s parent\" was unchecked again!!  What??\n\nCome to find out that to fix this you need to go into ASDI Edit.\n\n- Navigate to the domain partition\n\n- Go to \"System\"\n\n- Right click on AdminSdHolder and go to security tab\n\n- Click Advanced\n\n- Select the checkbox that says \"Include Permissions\"\n\nThat fixed it.  Something to keep in mind when testing with users that are in those protected OUs.\n\n</div>','\"Exchange ActiveSync returned an HTTP 500 response\" EXCHANGE 2010','','publish','open','open','','exchange-activesync-returned-an-http-500-response-exchange-2010','','','2011-02-01 16:22:38','2011-02-01 21:22:38','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3363',0,'post','',1),(3366,8,'2011-02-02 13:15:42','2011-02-02 18:15:42','<p>I ran into this issue today on a new machine using Visual Studio 2010.&nbsp; The error is \"The type or namespace name \'SharePoint\' does not exist in the namespace \'Microsoft\' (are you missing an assembly reference?) \"for console application in Visual Studio 2010.<br /><br />You have all the assembly references, the using statements, etc&hellip; to make it work.&nbsp; Intellisense works until you attempt to build or debug in the browser.</p>\n<p>Here is how to resolve.</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open up Solution Explorer and go to the Applications Tab.</li>\n<li>The target Application Framework will be set to &ldquo;.Net Framework 3.5 Client Profile&rdquo;, change this to just &ldquo;.Net Framework 3.5&rdquo;.</li>\n<li>Click &ldquo;Yes&rdquo; to the pop-up.</li>\n<li>Open the build section and change the framework to x64.</li></ol>\n<p>You should be able to debug/build successfully now.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p><div class=\"bjtags\">Tags:  <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http://technorati.com/tag/SharePoint+2010\">SharePoint+2010</a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http://technorati.com/tag/Custom+Development\">Custom+Development</a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http://technorati.com/tag/ASP.Net\">ASP.Net</a></div>','The type or namespace name \'SharePoint\' does not exist in the namespace \'Microsoft\'   ','','publish','open','open','','the-type-or-namespace-name-sharepoint-does-not-exist-in-the-namespace-microsoft','','','2011-02-02 13:15:42','2011-02-02 18:15:42','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3366',0,'post','',4),(3369,2,'2011-02-03 16:35:41','2011-02-03 21:35:41','Mt. Pleasant, SC – February 3, 2011 - eGroup, Inc. today announced its acceptance into the Cloud Computing Partner Lighthouse Initiative for VMware-qualified members of the VMware Partner Network. The Cloud Computing Partner Lighthouse program provides enablement and delivery materials to partners for vCloud Consulting Services including processes, service definition, management practices and models. VMware will continue to invest in eGroup, helping to ensure they can offer and deliver a growing range of cloud professional services.\n\nBased on VMware’s extensive experience working with both enterprises and service providers to deploy VMware vCloud® environments, the vCloud Accelerator Service is part of VMware’s growing portfolio of vCloud Consulting Services to accelerate the journey to the cloud by helping customers cut through the cloud hype, define a strategy, identify starting points, and develop a pragmatic roadmap for IT transformation.<!--more-->\n\n“Enterprise cloud initiatives endeavor to deliver unprecedented levels of IT agility and innovation,” said Matthew Stepanski, vice president, VMware Technical Services Cloud Practice. “VMware has made significant investments to help our customers build and deploy enterprise clouds while addressing the broad range of considerations involved in transitioning to the cloud, including technology architecture and implementation, operational processes, service definition, management practices, financial models and compliance.”\n\nThe new VMware vCloud reference architecture is a blueprint to help customers rapidly construct a working VMware vCloud solution leveraging technologies, best-practices and tools that have been proven in real-world enterprise cloud deployments. Based on VMware’s open architecture approach, the vCloud reference architecture provides the foundation for both enterprise and service provider clouds with thorough explanation of architectural elements, component details and examples of working VMware vCloud deployments. The VMware vCloud reference architecture significantly reduces the time required to research, plan and deploy a cloud-based environment.\n\nVMware’s cloud infrastructure and management vision is an evolutionary model of IT infrastructure based on virtualization that unifies private and public cloud resources with consistent security, compliance, management and quality of service. Building on the VMware vSphere™ foundation, the cloud infrastructure products and services VMware announced in August 2010 at VMworld – VMware vCloud Director, the VMware vShield product family and VMware vCloud Datacenter Services – introduce a hybrid cloud model that seamlessly bridges private and public clouds.\n\n<strong>About eGroup</strong>\n\neGroup provides technology solutions for Serious Competitors. Specifically, eGroup specializes in Cloud, Application, and End-User Computing Services that leverage IT infrastructure design, Enterprise storage and backup strategies for Disaster Preparedness, data centralization and secure access solutions, virtualization, network security, and secure LAN/WAN/Wireless architectures. eGroup’s solutions combine robust high-availability and performance with secure information access. These solutions enable customers to efficiently execute revenue-driving roles, and achieve the goal of cutting the organization’s acquisition and on-going support costs. eGroup understands that investment-oriented professionals must focus on making sound business decisions that provide significant returns. eGroup provides the thought leadership and expertise for customers to ensure that their technology investments continue to strengthen their competitive advantage in the marketplace. After all, a company’s success hinges on making critical business decisions that must be supported by its IT systems. By architecting high performance networking and computing platforms, and delivering the industry-proven systems engineering and application development expertise, eGroup helps companies make confident decisions. To learn more, visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a>.\n\n<strong>About VMware</strong>\n\nVMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere® – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization, which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com\">www.vmware.com</a>.\n\n# # #\n\nVMware, VMware vCenter, VMware vCloud, VMware vShield and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.','eGROUP ACCEPTED INTO CLOUD COMPUTING PARTNER LIGHTHOUSE INITIATIVE FOR VMWARE ','','publish','open','open','','egroup-accepted-into-cloud-computing-partner-lighthouse-initiative-for-vmware','','','2011-02-03 16:35:41','2011-02-03 21:35:41','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3369',0,'post','',0),(3372,6,'2011-02-04 09:46:13','2011-02-04 14:46:13','I ran into an issue earlier this week where customer had a 2 node ESXi 4.1 deployment using NFS shared storage. We were running into performance issues on the SQL and CRYSTAL VM\'s in particular. After tracking down the issue, I noted that the freezing correlated to the same time the Veeam backup job was running.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI instantly pulled the VMs out of the backup jobs and the problems quieted down.\n\nThere was an open snapshot on the SQL VM, so shutting down the VM and \"Deleting All\" snapshots resolved that issue.\n\nRoping in Veeam support led me down the path to a VMware KB Article which shed some light on the subject and introduced me to a couple settings under the VMware hood that I had not been introduced too.\n\nThe VMware KB Article in question is <strong><a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;externalId=1031106&amp;sliceId=1&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;dialogID=152827602&amp;stateId=0%200%20152829571\">HERE</a></strong>. And it is properly titled: <strong>\"Virtual machine freezes temporarily during snapshot removal on an NFS datastore in a ESX/ESXi 4.1 host\"</strong>, and it is highly recommended reading.\n\n<strong>Moral of the story if you are backing up your VMs to an NFS Datastore and ctkEnabled on VM (via Change Block Tracking)  then you could very well experience some pain and suffering.</strong>\n\nTo resolve the issue, I had to perform 2 Steps:\n\n1. Go into the Veeam backup job and turn off a \"recommended\" advanced setting (see below) effectively <strong>Turning off Change Block Tracking:</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/veeam1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3374\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/veeam1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"525\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/veeam1.jpg\"></a></strong></p>\n \n\n2. Power down the VM experiencing the performance hit, in vCenter go to Edit Settings, Options, General, Configuration Parameters, and scroll down until you see ctkEnabled (see below). This setting needs to be changed back over to <strong>FALSE</strong>. (Note the Veeam  backup job with the Change Block Tracking enabled) will set this on the VM to <strong>TRUE</strong>.\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ctkEnabled.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3375\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ctkEnabled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"575\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ctkEnabled.jpg\"></a></p>\nNote: This can only be changed while the VM is powered down. Now that the setting has been changed on the Veeam backup job and on the VM itself. The VM can be powered backup, and the VM can be added back into the Veeam backup job.\n\nAs soon as the Veeam 5 Best Practices are released, I will certainly follow backup and link them to this post.','VIRTUAL MACHINE FREEZING DURING NFS DATASTORE BACKUP & HOW TO FIX IT','','publish','open','open','','virtual-machine-freezing-during-nfs-datastore-backup-how-to-fix-it','','','2011-02-04 09:46:13','2011-02-04 14:46:13','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3372',0,'post','',0),(3393,44,'2011-02-04 12:01:01','2011-02-04 17:01:01','Recently I had to the opportunity to work with a customer who inherited two Citrix Netscaler appliances that they were hoping to use to load balance thier production web environment. This was an excellent idea which would replace Microsoft NLB clustering on thier existing web servers and give them must more functionality. One of the caveats though, to inherting equipment is that you are inheriting the configuration that was on the box previously as well. Sometimes pulling all the little hidden bits of config out takes twice as long as actually setting the new one up. So I ran across a few bits of information on the web to help clean everything out to have your appliance like new again.<!--more-->\n\nFirst things first! You may be in a situation where you do not have the old login credentials to the box, no sweat a few commands and you are on your way. I pulled this from Citrix\'s site but will post it again here just in case some of you stumble across this first. The citrix article can be found here (<a href=\"http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx109006\">http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx109006</a>). Keep in mind when reading below that <strong>u@h$</strong> represents the prompt and should not be entered.\n<blockquote>1.  Attach a console cable to the Serial Console (9600 baud, 8 bits, 1 stop bit, No parity) of the NetScaler appliance.\n\n2.  Restart the NetScaler appliance.\n\n3.  Press any of the following keys, as prompted:\n\nPress <strong>Spacebar</strong> when the following message is displayed:\n\nHit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt Booting [kernel] in 10 seconds\nPress <strong>Ctrl</strong> and <strong>C</strong> keys simultaneously when the following message is displayed:\nPress [Ctrl-C] for command prompt, or any other key to boot immediately.\nBooting [kernel] in 2 seconds...\n\n4.  To start the appliance kernel on a single user mode, enter the following command:\n\n<strong>boot –s</strong>\n\n<strong>Note</strong>: If <strong>boot -s</strong> does not work, then try <strong>reboot</strong> <strong>-- -s</strong> and appliance will reboot in single user mode.\n\n5.  Press Enter when the following message is displayed:\nEnter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:\n<strong>Note</strong>: Notice that the prompt of the appliance changes to u@h$.\n\n6.  Run the following command to check the disk consistency:\n\n<strong>u@h$ /sbin/fsck /dev/ad0s1a</strong>\n\n7.  Run the following command to display the mounted partitions:\n\n<strong>df</strong>\n\n8.  Run the following command to mount the flash drive:\n\n<strong>u@h$ /sbin/mount /dev/ad0s1a /flash</strong>\n\nIf the preceding command fails to mount the flash drive, then run the following command to create the flash directory and then run the preceding command again to mount the drive:\n<strong>u@h$ mkdir /flash</strong>\n\n9.  Run the following command to change to the nsconfig directory:\n<strong>u@h$ cd /flash/nsconfig</strong>\n\n10.  Run the following set of commands to rewrite the ns.conf file and remove the set of system commands defaulting to the nsroot user:\n\na. Run the following command to create a new configuration file that does not have commands defaulting to the nsroot user:\n<strong>u@h$ grep –v “set system user nsroot” ns.conf &gt; new.conf</strong>\n\nb. Run a command similar to the following command to make a backup of the existing configuration file:\n<strong>u@h$ mv ns.conf old.ns.conf</strong>\n\nc. Run the following command to rename the new.conf file to ns.conf:\n<strong>u@h$ mv new.conf ns.conf</strong>\n\n11.  Run the following command to restart the appliance:\n<strong>reboot</strong>\n\n12.  Log in to the appliance by using the default nsroot user credentials.\n\n13.  Run the following command to reset the nsroot user password of your choice:\n<strong>&gt; set system user nsroot &lt;New_Password&gt;</strong></blockquote>\nOne last thing I thought I would throw in here... The other commands up top tell you how to change things password related, but once you truly have console access and have your password reset you can totally blow away all of the config simply by doing the following.\n<blockquote>Issue the following command from the NetScaler CLI:\n\n<strong>&gt; clear config –c y </strong>\n\n-Or-\n\n1. Go to the shell.\n\n2. Under the <strong>/nsconfig</strong> directory, rename <strong>ns.conf</strong> to <strong>ns.conf.bak. </strong>I actually used the move command, so it looked like this<strong> &gt;mv ns.conf ns.conf.old</strong> \n\n3. Restart the NetScaler. Because there is no configuration in the NetScaler after this restart, it prompts you for the basic configuration.</blockquote>','CITRIX NETSCALER TIPS AND TRICKS','','publish','open','open','','citrix-netscaler-tips-and-tricks','','','2011-02-04 12:01:01','2011-02-04 17:01:01','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3393',0,'post','',0),(3397,4,'2011-02-04 12:53:22','2011-02-04 17:53:22','EMC now offers convenient five software packages to optimize, secure, and protect application data, along with two bundles that package popular combinations:\n\n<strong>Software Packages:</strong>\n\n<strong>FAST Suite</strong>\nImproves performance, boosts storage efficiency, and lowers costs by automatically tiering and serving data from the most cost-effective drive type.\n\n<strong>Security and Compliance Suite</strong>\nProtects data from unwanted changes and other actions. Data is encrypted where created and protected anywhere outside the server. File-level retention supports compliance.\n\n<strong>Local Protection Suite</strong>\nDelivers any-point-in-time recovery of production applications with minimal data exposure. Use copies of production data for development, testing, reporting, and other tasks.\n\n<strong>Remote Protection Suite</strong>\nProvides block and file replication for disaster recovery protection of any host and any application, with immediate DVR-like recovery to any point in time.\n\n<strong>Application Protection Suite</strong>\nAutomate application consistent copies of Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Oracle for assured recovery. Alert for recovery gaps and prove protection policy compliance.\n\n<strong>Software Bundles:</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/EMCVNXSoftware.png\"><img src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/EMCVNXSoftware.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"EMCVNXSoftware\" width=\"580\" height=\"493\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3398\" /></a>\n\n\n<strong>MORE DETAIL: (click for larger image)</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/VNXSoftwareBundles.jpg\"><img src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/VNXSoftwareBundles.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"VNXSoftwareBundles\" width=\"614\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3565\" /></a>\n\nEnjoy!  and thanks EMC!\n\n','EMC \"BUNDLED\" SOFTWARE PACKS FOR VNX PLATFORM - SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT....','','publish','open','open','','emc-bundled-software-packs-for-vnx-platform-simple-and-efficient','','','2011-02-04 12:53:22','2011-02-04 17:53:22','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3397',0,'post','',0),(3405,44,'2011-02-04 16:08:35','2011-02-04 21:08:35','<blockquote><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1.gif\"></a></blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">To add to my previous blog post \"Netscaler Tips and Tricks\" viewed here (<a href=\"http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=3393\">http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=3393</a>),  I thought I would throw in some notes on how to configure HA on a pair of Netscaler appliances. This procedure is very simple and with the tips listed below it should take most questions out of the process and pave the way for a smooth delivery.  <!--more--></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Here goes!</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Switch to the appliance that you want to act as the Primary Appliance.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> Expand System and click on <strong>High Availability</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1.gif\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-3406 alignnone\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1-1024x114.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"62\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><br class=\"blank\" />\nDouble click on the IP information to open up the High Availability properties dialog to configure the node</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Select the check box “<strong>STAY PRIMARY</strong>” and click OK</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">  <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2.gif\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-3407  alignleft\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"401\" /></a>\n  </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The node state will then change to <strong>STAY PRIMARY</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.gif\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3408\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3-1024x107.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"64\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Switch to the appliance you would like to be the Secondary.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Double click on the IP information to open up the High Availability properties dialog to configure the node</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Select the check box “<strong>STAY SECONDARY</strong>” and click OK</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/4.gif\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3409\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"399\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\nThe node state will then change to <strong>STAY SECONDARY</strong>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Go back to the Primary Appliance. Click Add and enter the IP information for your Secondary Appliance.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/5.gif\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3410\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/5.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"211\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">* <strong>Make sure that “<em>Turn off HA Monitor on interfaces/channels that are down</em>” is selected. This is important so that the appliances don’t begin the failover process since they can’t currently talk to each other</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong> </strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you take a look at the secondary appliance you will see that synchronization is taking place.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/6.gif\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3411\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/6-1024x126.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"46\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Now that synchronization is taking place go back to the Primary appliance and select <strong>Enabled (Actively participate in HA)</strong> and hit OK</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/7.gif\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3412\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/7.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"401\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> Repeat this step for the Secondary Appliance.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/7.gif\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3412\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/7.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"401\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Both appliances are now up and running configured for HA and in an “UP” State</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">  <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/9.gif\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3413\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/9-1024x107.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"64\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Make sure to check the network interfaces to verify monitoring is on. It should be enabled by default but double checking cannot hurt. You can find this by expanding the <strong>NETWORK</strong> folder and opening <strong>INTERFACES. </strong>Monitoring must be on for the appliances to automatically detect if one drops so it can initiate failover.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">One last thing at the bottom of the screen in High Availability you can Force Failover. I would highly recommend this so that you know that everything is working properly. By forcing failover the secondary will become active… To switch back to the primary simply force failover again.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11.gif\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3414\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/11.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"71\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Citrix has a great video on this that has more detail, it can be viewed here (<a href=\"http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX125685\">http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX125685</a>).</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>','HOW TO CONFIGURE HIGH AVAILABILTY ON NETSCALER','','publish','open','open','','how-to-configure-high-availabilty-on-netscaler','','','2011-02-04 16:08:35','2011-02-04 21:08:35','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3405',0,'post','',0),(3464,13,'2011-02-06 15:55:00','2011-02-06 20:55:00','VMware has recently announced two great promotions that will run from February 1, 2011 – June 15, 2011.  Save 40 percent when you upgrade to the VMware <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/solutions/smb/how-to-buy.html\">vSphere Standard Acceleration Kit</a> or purchase <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/\">VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager</a>.\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"> <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Promotions.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3477 aligncenter\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Promotions-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>                                      <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/SRM-image.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3478 aligncenter\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/SRM-image-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" /></a></p>\nThe First promotion is for any VMware customers who currently has vSphere Essentials or Essentials Plus licensed on or before January 31, 2011 can now upgrade to the new vSphere Standard Acceleration Kit for 40% off the normal list price.  The vSphere Standard Acceleration Kit includes VMware vCenter Server Standard and 8 CPU of vSPhere Standard Edition to provide business continuity with VMware vMotion, VMware High Availability, and VMware Data Recovery features.\n\nThe Second Promotion is for any customer looking to jumpstart their disaster recovery process by deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.  Purchase Site Recovery Manager at 40 percent off the normal list price for the first 25 virtual machine licenses purchased.  VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager automates the entire disaster recovery process to simplify and improve the reliability of DR implementations. Jumpstart your initial Site Recovery Manager deployment and experience the benefit of fully automated, reliable disaster recovery for your key applications.','VMWARE PROMOTIONS SAVING CUSTOMERS UP TO 40% OFF ','','publish','open','open','','vmware-promotions-saving-customers-up-to-40-off','','','2011-02-06 15:55:00','2011-02-06 20:55:00','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3464',0,'post','',0),(3483,44,'2011-02-07 10:53:44','2011-02-07 15:53:44','<div>\n\nCisco released the newest update to the Nexus 1000V Distributed Virtual Switch.\n\nI was anxiously awaiting the next release after running into some difficulties getting the previous version to implement seamlessly.  I actually even ran into the fabled PSOD when installing this at one customer.\n\nWith the growth of the Virtualized Datacenter, the need for a centralized network infrastructure has grown.  The Nexus 1000V has been the only way outside of the VMware DVS to do that, but the caveats have weighed heavily on IT departments\' decisions to go forward with implementation.\n\nSo, enter the newest release of the 1000V code.\n\nWhat does it improve?\n\n<!--more--><img src=\"http://stevesgeeklab.wordpress.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" />\n\nHere\'s a couple of the highlights from the update, but for full details see <a title=\"Cisco Nexus 1000V\" href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/sw/4_2_1_s_v_1_4/release/notes/n1000v_rn.html\">here</a>\n\n- You can now disable the HTTP Server\n\n- There are enhancements made to Port Profiles\n\n- Higher Maximums!!\n\n- vPath\n\n- Upgrade application for VSM and VEM\n\n- Hardware adapter for iSCSI multipathing\n\n- CBWFQ (Class-Based Weighted Fair Queueing)\n\n- ACLs for Management Interfaces\n\n- Ephemeral Port-Binding Type\n\nAnother big plus for me was vMotion.  With all the previous releases the VSM had to be excluded from DRS and vMotion tasks, however now with this release, vMotion is enabled and provides more resilient VSMs that are not tied to a specific host.\n\nWith this release the Nexus 1000V continues to grow in strength as a powerful DVS to maintain the virtual data center.  Hopefully the caveats that have been appearing in the past will be corrected.  Some of that is still to be seen, but I am hopeful that the 1000V will become what we all hoped it would be.\n\n</div>','Cisco Releases Nexus 1000V 4.2(1) SV(4)','','publish','open','open','','cisco-releases-nexus-1000v-4-21-sv4','','','2011-02-07 10:53:44','2011-02-07 15:53:44','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3483',0,'post','',0),(3496,44,'2011-02-08 14:03:16','2011-02-08 19:03:16','I encountered an issue at a customer site recently where CPU utilization on the vCenter server was very high, affecting server response time. Task Manager showed that a single process named CollectorServerHost.exe was consuming most of the CPU. With a little research I discovered this service is part of VMware Guided Consolidation. Since this customer was not using this feature, we decided to disable it. I stopped the two related services and CPU utilization dropped immediately. I tried using Add/Remove Programs to uninstall the feature, but this failed with an error.  The other VMware-recommended method of disabling the software is to edit the vpxd.cfg file using the instructions in the VMware KB article <a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1003400\">here</a>. Following these instructions resolved the issue for my customer.','SOLUTION TO HIGH CPU UTILIZATION ON VCENTER SERVER','','publish','open','open','','solution-to-high-cpu-utilization-on-vcenter-server','','','2011-02-08 14:03:16','2011-02-08 19:03:16','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3496',0,'post','',0),(3504,12,'2011-02-08 16:26:46','2011-02-08 21:26:46','Came across this article in the EMC KB-- and was very helpful in getting a vCenter server added in to the RecoverPoint Management Application. I was receiving errors that it was using the \"wrong port\"-- despite the fact I knew it was using 443.\n\nI even went so far as to verify it on the server via netstat, and with Wireshark. Then I found this (step 4 is the key):\n\n<!--more-->\n<ol>\n	<li>Validate RPA can ping VC IP</li>\n	<li>Validate VC can ping RPA Cluster IP</li>\n	<li>Validate VC is listening on port 443 ( netstat -an | find \"443\")\n\nNote  : Use \'boxmgmt\' user to run commands from following menu options :\n\n**  Main Menu **\n[2] Setup\n[8] Advanced options\n[6] System internal  operations\n[2] Run internal command\nThis is the list of commands you are  allowed to use: switch_utils <strong>netstat</strong> ethtool date telnet  <strong>ping</strong> ssh top\nEnter internal command:</li>\n	<li>Using this secure connection you must use the Virtual Center (VC)  certificate which can be found in the following directory on the Virtual Center  server:\n\n<strong>C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication  DataVMwareVMware VirtualCenterSSLrui.crt\n</strong>\nCopy this to a  location on the PC that you are running the RecoverPoint GUI and vCenter Server  install from.\n\nNOTE: This location maybe different on Windows 2008 server  and you will need to search accordingly for the certificate file.</li>\n	<li>Using the RecoverPoint Console, right-click <strong>vCenter  Servers</strong>, select <strong>Add vCenter Server  credentials</strong>.\n\nUnder Credentials :\nServer IP :  &lt;  Note : this is the Virtual Center IP address and not an ESX  IP &gt;\nPort number : 443\nUsername : &lt;User must be  able to login to VC&gt;\nPassword :\nCertificate files:  &lt;rui.crt from step 4&gt;</li>\n</ol>\nIn my case the path was not as listed in Step 4, but I was able to track the cert down regardless.','EMC RecoverPoint - ADDING IN A vCenter SERVER ','','publish','open','open','','emc-recoverpoint-adding-in-a-vcenter-server','','','2011-02-08 16:26:46','2011-02-08 21:26:46','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3504',0,'post','',0),(3502,44,'2011-02-08 17:06:48','2011-02-08 22:06:48','I have a customer who uses a rack-mounted <a href=\"http://go.iomega.com/en-us/products/network-storage-rack/ix12-300r/ix12-300r/?partner=4760\">Iomega ix12-300r</a> NAS unit to provide NFS storage to their ESXi 4.1 hosts.  I blogged earlier about some of the issues encountered setting this up <a href=\"http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=2762\">here</a> and <a href=\"http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=3192\">here</a>.  One important step we took to stabilize this environment was to upgrade the firmware on both the chassis and on the drives themselves. It can be difficult to find accurate information on Iomega\'s web site to do this.  It\'s important to upgrade the chassis firmware first. Here are links to the specific <a href=\"I have a customer who uses a rack-mounted Iomega ix12-300r NAS unit to provide NFS storage to their ESXi 4.1 hosts.  I blogged earlier about some of the issues encountered setting this up here and here.  One important step we took to stabilize this environment was to upgrade the firmware on both the chassis and on the drives themselves. It can be difficult to find accurate information on Iomega\'s web site to do this.  It\'s important to upgrade the chassis firmware first. Here are links to the specific chassis firmware and drive firmware support installation instructions on Iomega\'s web site. If you download the files, prepare USB media for the drive firmware in advance, and carefully follow the instructions, the actual upgrades are fairly quick and easy.\">chassis firmware</a> and <a href=\"https://iomega-na-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24491/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMjk3MTkzNDAxL3NpZC9qT2pMcTdtaw%3D%3D\">drive firmware</a> support installation instructions on Iomega\'s web site. If you download the files, prepare USB media for the drive firmware in advance, and carefully follow the instructions, the actual upgrades are fairly quick and easy.','UPGRADING FIRMWARE ON IOMEGA IX12-300R NAS','','publish','open','open','','upgrading-firmware-on-iomega-ix12-300r','','','2011-02-08 17:06:48','2011-02-08 22:06:48','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3502',0,'post','',0),(3489,2,'2011-02-09 12:13:34','2011-02-09 17:13:34','Keep up with breaking news and announcements from PEX 2011 in Orlando this week!\n\n<strong>Follow: </strong>\n\n<strong>@mikecarter92 </strong>\n\n<strong>@wturbeville </strong>\n\n<strong>@iantrjones</strong>','FOLLOW eGROUP TWEETERS LIVE FROM #PEX2011! ','','publish','open','open','','follow-egroup-tweeters-at-pex2011','','','2011-02-09 12:13:34','2011-02-09 17:13:34','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3489',0,'post','',0),(3521,23,'2011-02-09 21:05:01','2011-02-10 02:05:01','As a SharePoint developer, I have learned many things the hard way.  One of the most important things that I learned early on was to dispose of your SPSite and SPWeb objects.  They do not dispose cleanly on their own.  If you have custom code that is being called hundreds or thousands of times a day, then your application will more than likely crash IIS.\n\nThere are 2 main ways that I have seen developers dispose of these objects.  The first is to call the Dispose() method on each object.  The second, I think, is the best method, and that is to use the Using statement.  It makes it impossible to forget to dispose of the objects.  Here\'s how to use it...\n\n<code> </code>\n<pre><code>using (SPSite site = new SPSite(\"http://www.myserver.com\")) {\n     using (SPWeb web = SPSite.OpenWeb()) {\n          //Your code here!\n     </code>}\n}</pre>\nIf you put all of your code where the \"//Your code here!\" statement is then you will never have to worry about disposing of the objects.  Even if the code throws an exception, the objects will be disposed of.  However, you should still put try-catch statements around your code to catch any errors that may occur.\n\nIf you need help checking your code for non-disposed objects, then check the <a title=\"SPDisposeCheck\" href=\"http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck\" target=\"_blank\">SPDisposeCheck</a> tool out.','DISPOSING OF OBJECTS IN SHAREPOINT CODE','','publish','open','open','','disposing-of-objects-in-sharepoint-code','','','2011-02-09 21:05:01','2011-02-10 02:05:01','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3521',0,'post','',0),(3514,12,'2011-02-11 11:43:28','2011-02-11 16:43:28','During eGroup’s Q3 2010 Quarterly Meeting it was announced that we would be naming an “Engineer of the Year” for 2010, and each subsequent year.  The criteria for achieving this award is based on both tangible items, such as hitting goals and achieving new certifications, as well as intangibles—like going the extra mile, doing things the RIGHT way, and demonstrating a great attitude and work ethic.\n\nWhile all of the Engineers on the eGroup team are exceptionally talented and hardworking individuals with a passion for the technology we work with, this particular Engineer went above and beyond, willing to step up to every challenge sent his way. After joining the team less than a year ago, this Engineer ramped up to the eGroup system and methodology at an incredible pace– and did it without fear or hesitation. Going the extra mile is an understatement—as this individual went several HUNDRED extra miles, flying to Tennessee to fill in for Cisco on a UCS project, and even filling in for VMware on a major account in the Carolinas.\n\nHe is an excellent Engineer, but even more importantly, he is excellent person.\n\nIt is with great pleasure that I announce eGroup’s 2010 Engineer of the Year, <strong>STEVE TAYLOR</strong>.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/3938/steveteoty2010.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" alt=\"\" />\n\nSteve, on behalf of eGroup, CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU for all of your hard work and hours of dedication!\n\n','eGroup\'s 2010 Engineer of the Year!','','publish','open','open','','egroups-2010-engineer-of-the-year','','','2011-02-11 11:43:28','2011-02-11 16:43:28','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3514',0,'post','',0),(3534,8,'2011-02-13 17:49:30','2011-02-13 22:49:30','eGroup welcomes Brad Shannon to the Development Services team.  Brad has a proven track record of applications development experience and has been focusing on developing solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010.  Brad\'s application development experience and troubleshooting skills paired with his experience as a systems administrator in virtual and physical infrastructures make Brad an excellent resource for eGroup and eGroup\'s customers. \n\nWe are excited about what Brad has to offer and are looking forward to many successful projects for our customers around Applications Delivery, End User Computing and Business Collaboration in Traditional infrastructures as well as Private/Public Clouds.','eGroup WELCOMES NEW APPLICATIONS TEAM MEMBER: Brad Shannon','','publish','open','open','','egroup-welcomes-new-applications-team-member-brad-shannon','','','2011-02-13 17:49:30','2011-02-13 22:49:30','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3534',0,'post','',0),(3539,44,'2011-02-14 10:48:56','2011-02-14 15:48:56','<div>\n\nVMware Announced this week Zimbra Collaboration Server 7.0 (ZCS)! This is the next installment in what many are calling the “Exchange Killer”.  This is the first major release since VMware purchased the company, and with the backing of VMware, it is defininately going to take off.\n\nZimbra is already used in quite a few Enterprise size companies, and that has been where its niche has commonly been.  However, now there is a Virtual Appliance available that can run all the Small Businesses, as well as ZCS is now much more scalable to fit really any size business.\n\nSo what’s the catch?  In all honesty, I can ‘t think of one.  Zimbra provides all the features that Microsoft Exchange does with a bit of Google Apps mixed in.  When they call it a “Collaboration” they mean it.  Zimbra expands almost without limits in reference to functionality with what Zimbra calls Zimlets (Java based plugins that provide a certain functionality inside of the Zimbra System).  Simple things like Google Maps can be built into Zimbra to allow you to simply “mouse over” a location in an email and get a pop like the one below to see the map of it.\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://stevesgeeklab.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/zimbra_google_map-medium.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://stevesgeeklab.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/zimbra_google_map-medium.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" /></a></p>\n<img src=\"http://stevesgeeklab.wordpress.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" />\n\nAnd that is not the end of it.  There are thousands of Zimlets out there that have already been created.  Check out the Zimlet Gallery <a title=\"Zimlet Gallery\" href=\"http://gallery.zimbra.com/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nAnd believe it or not, that’s still not the end!  Get a good Java programmer and the possibilities are literally endless.\n\nOf course, Zimbra works with mobile devices, including Blackberry, and can work with Outlook as well.  Of course, to get the full functionality of Zimbra, you would want to use the Zimbra Desktop Client.  One of the coolest things about the Zimbra client is the fact that it looks identical to the web client. Oh, and it’s free!!\n\nZimbra is truly the Exchange alternative that we all have been looking for.  I am excited to see some actual competition to Exchange, but with Zimbra, you really get Exchange, Sharepoint capabilities, SalesForce Plugins, Google Apps, and more all in one package.\n\nSo, I think that Zimbra is definitely worth a second look.  To see more check out this <a title=\"Zimbra Tour\" href=\"http://www.zimbra.com/demos/zimbra_tour/\" target=\"_blank\">link</a> for a demo.\n\n</div>','ZIMBRA Collaboration Server 7 Released','','publish','open','open','','zimbra-collaboration-server-7-released','','','2011-02-14 10:48:56','2011-02-14 15:48:56','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3539',0,'post','',0),(3560,44,'2011-02-15 14:04:10','2011-02-15 19:04:10','<strong>Microsoft officially announced today that they will be officially releasing the final build of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 2008 Server R2 SP1.</strong>\n\nMSDN, TechNet Subscribers, and Volume License Customers will have the service packs available to them tomorrow, with the \"all hands\" release happening February 22.\n\nGet in line, this one should be good!!','Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 - Feb 22 ','','publish','open','open','','windows-7-sp1-and-windows-server-2008-r2-sp1-feb-22','','','2011-02-15 14:04:10','2011-02-15 19:04:10','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3560',0,'post','',0),(3571,12,'2011-02-17 15:32:15','2011-02-17 20:32:15','While trying to install ESXi 4.1 Update 1 on a new Cisco UCS B250 M2 server, I connected to the server through the KVM, and mapped the installation ISO via the virtual media screen. After booting the server up, I noticed the server got to the ESXi installation screen, but froze there. I expanded out the details of the virtual media options, and noticed the ISO mounted up to 99MB, but would not proceed any further (the ISO itself is about 400MB)\n\nLong story short, the resolution was to downgrade the firmware to run at the same level as the current UCS Manager code-- in this case, it was stepping down to 1.3(1c).','Cisco UCS - KVM VIRTUAL MEDIA ISO MOUNT FREEZES AT 99MB','','publish','open','open','','cisco-ucs-kvm-virtual-media-iso-mount-freezes-at-99mb','','','2011-02-17 15:32:15','2011-02-17 20:32:15','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3571',0,'post','',1),(3576,8,'2011-02-18 23:26:36','2011-02-19 04:26:36','One thing I always run into when talking about VMWare ThinAppp/VMWare View vs. Citrix XenApp/Citrix XenDesktop is that people are set on going one way or the other.  When in reality, ThinApp and XenApp are very complimentary products.  ThinApp can simplify your application deployment and the management of those applications.  Whether that be to traditional desktops, virtual desktops or application delivery platforms.  XenApp can simplify your deployment model with the Citrix Desktop and published applications.\n\nHowever, Publishing ThinApps to Citrix Desktops or delivering as published applications can extend those management efficiencies.  You can have a single source of management for all applications in your environment and deliver to all devices/locations as well.  You can continue to reap the rewards of a Thin operating system and the packaged application mobility/reliability while also increasing your ability to deliver it to more end user devices in more geographical locations. \n\nLots of reasons why a ThinApp deployment delivered via Citrix XenApp is a desirable solution.  Just another way (and a good one at that) to simplify management and increase application performance.\n\nRemember the goal.  Any Device, Anywhere!','VMWare ThinApp and Citrix XenApp. COMPLIMENTARY, NOT ALWAYS COMPETING','','publish','open','open','','vmware-thinapp-and-citrix-xenapp-complimentary-not-always-competing','','','2011-02-18 23:26:36','2011-02-19 04:26:36','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3576',0,'post','',1),(3579,44,'2011-02-21 09:36:56','2011-02-21 14:36:56','EMC RecoverPoint 3.4 was released last week on February 16th. The new version includes several additional features:\n\n     &gt; Support for EMC VNX series storage arrays\n\n     &gt; A new ordering structure\n\n     &gt; WAN deduplication on a consistency-group basis\n\n     &gt; Unified remote replication for block and NAS storage\n\n     &gt; A new licensing model that is per site and array model vs. capacity\n\nMore information about the new features in RecoverPoint 3.4 are available <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h2781-emc-recoverpoint-3-new-features.pdf\">here</a>.','EMC RECOVERPOINT 3.4 NEW FEATURES','','publish','open','open','','emc-recoverpoint-3-4-new-features','','','2011-02-21 09:36:56','2011-02-21 14:36:56','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3579',0,'post','',0),(3594,16,'2011-02-21 20:21:10','2011-02-22 01:21:10','We recently were faced with troubleshooting an issue in a customer\'s environment where we were intermittently losing SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2007 services (on separate servers). There was no pattern and the only commonality discovered was a .Net runtime error in the Windows Event Log. This was very painful for the customer as they would lose one or both of these systems during critical business hours. Read more to learn what the root cause was and how it was resolved.\n\n<!--more--><strong>The Windows Event Log errors we were seeing followed one of 2 patterns.</strong>\n\n<strong>We saw errors similar to:</strong>\n\n<tt>.NET Runtime\n.NET Runtime version * Fatal Execution Engine Error *\nApplication Error:\nFaulting application name: w3wp.exe *\nFaulting module name: mscorwks.dll *\nException code: 0xc00000005</tt>\n\n<strong>as well as:</strong>\n\n.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.4952 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (000007FEF896FA42) (80131506)\n\nIt took us a lot of digging to get to a point where we were reliably correlating the application crash times with DRS moves. This particular customer uses Full Automation and the servers were being moved based on a setting of Aggressive. This realization led us to the following VMware KB:\n\n<a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;externalId=1029398&amp;sliceId=1&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;dialogID=153668109&amp;stateId=0\">VMware ESXi 4.1 Patch ESXi410-201011401-BG: Updates Firmware</a>\n\n<strong>The relevant excerpt from the KB article:</strong>\n\nIf a 64-bit Windows virtual machine that uses software techniques  for instruction set virtualization or Binary Translation (BT) is resumed  from the suspended state or is migrated to an ESX 4.1 host, the virtual  machine might stop responding, and the Microsoft Windows Event Logs  might display error messages similar to the following:\n<tt>.NET Runtime\n.NET Runtime version * Fatal Execution Engine Error *\nApplication Error:\nFaulting application name: oobe.exe *\nFaulting module name: mscorwks.dll *\nException code: 0xc00000005</tt>\n\nIn this particular case our initial validation of this solution was to set DRS to disabled for the 5 VMs that could potentially be affected (WIN2K8 R2 64). We allowed this change to bake for approximately 7 days before declaring this a sound solution to the problem. The recommended patch was not an option for us as the customer was running hardware that prevented this. Given that Disabling DRS was on the recommended solutions list we reviewed we elected to leave things as they are and wait for the next hardware and ESXi upgrade by the customer to re-enable DRS on these machines.','.NET ISSUES WITH WIN2K8 R2 64-BIT ON VMWARE ESXi 4.1','','publish','open','open','','net-issues-with-win2k8-r2-64-bit-on-vmware-esxi-4-1','','','2011-02-21 20:21:10','2011-02-22 01:21:10','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3594',0,'post','',0),(3598,2,'2011-02-22 09:38:10','2011-02-22 14:38:10','<em><strong>List recognizes VARs with deep technical expertise and premier certifications in North America</strong></em>\n\nMount Pleasant, SC, February 22, 2011 – eGroup, Inc. has been named to the inaugural CRN Tech Elite 250. The Tech Elite 250 serves as the industry’s definitive list of VARs with both deep technical expertise and premier certifications. eGroup has been recognized as a best-of-breed integrator who has invested in technical know-how and earned premier certifications in the areas of data centers and infrastructure for North American customers. To view the complete list of winners visit <a href=\"http://www.crn.com\">www.crn.com</a>.\n\nCRN Editors worked with solution providers and outside experts to define the most important technical certifications in the market today.  By mapping certifications against the key technology opportunities as defined by CRN\'s State of the Market and Midmarket study, the Tech Elite 250 recognizes the VARs most committed to helping customers innovate while reducing costs.<!--more-->\n\neGroup specializes in project work and IT infrastructure solution sales for corporate customers across the Southeast. Based in the Carolinas, eGroup\'s core competencies include virtualization, enterprise storage, data center networking, and Microsoft infrastructures. eGroup\'s primary manufacturer partnerships include VMware, EMC and Cisco, makers of best-of-breed technologies that enable eGroup to deliver private cloud computing environments that drive revenues and cut costs.\n\n“The Tech Elite 250 recognizes an elite group of VARs who are successfully navigating the dynamic IT channel market,” said Kelley Damore, Vice President, Editorial Director at Everything Channel. “By adapting to new customer purchasing patterns and redefining best practices, these solution providers are delivering the strategies and value customers demand to compete in today’s competitive economic environment.”\n\n\"We\'re thrilled to be included in CRN\'s inaugural list of the Tech Elite 250,\" said Mike Carter, principal of eGroup.  \"Through our best-of-breed product and service offerings - complemented by our deep technical expertise - eGroup is able to reduce the complexity of our clients\' IT environments, while dramatically lowering costs and enabling a flexible, agile IT service delivery model that supports both users and business needs.\"\n\n<strong>About eGroup</strong>\n\neGroup provides technology solutions for Serious Competitors. Specifically, eGroup specializes in Cloud, Application, and End-User Computing Services that leverage IT infrastructure design, Enterprise storage and backup strategies for Disaster Preparedness, data centralization and secure access solutions, virtualization, network security, and secure LAN/WAN/Wireless architectures. eGroup’s solutions combine robust high-availability and performance with secure information access. These solutions enable customers to efficiently execute revenue-driving roles, and achieve the goal of cutting the organization’s acquisition and on-going support costs. eGroup understands that investment-oriented professionals must focus on making sound business decisions that provide significant returns. eGroup provides the thought leadership and expertise for customers to ensure that their technology investments continue to strengthen their competitive advantage in the marketplace. After all, a company’s success hinges on making critical business decisions that must be supported by its IT systems. By architecting high performance networking and computing platforms, and delivering the industry-proven systems engineering and application development expertise, eGroup helps companies make confident decisions. To learn more, visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a>.\n\n<strong>About Everything Channel</strong>\n\nEverything Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, Everything Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. Everything Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about Everything Channel, visit us at http://www.everythingchannel.com. Follow us on Twitter at <a href=\"http://twitter.com/everythingchnl\">http://twitter.com/everythingchnl</a>.\n\n<strong>About United Business Media Limited</strong>\n\nUBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM\'s businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to <a href=\"http://www.ubm.com\">www.ubm.com</a>.\n\n###','eGROUP, INC. NAMED TO INAUGURAL CRN TECH ELITE 250','','publish','open','open','','egroup-inc-named-to-inaugural-crn-tech-elite-250-2','','','2011-02-22 09:38:10','2011-02-22 14:38:10','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3598',0,'post','',0),(3603,6,'2011-02-22 12:00:32','2011-02-22 17:00:32','<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/WUG.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3606\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/WUG-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" /></a>WhatsUp Gold is a software application that can take your network to the next level. As networks grow and become increasingly complex, deciphering what is actually going on can be difficult. Bringing in additional resources to pin down issues and assist with troubleshooting efforts is often a great step. Another way to look at the issue is to ensure that proper network reporting and tracking is in place.\n\nThat is where WhatsUp Gold comes in.\n\nWhether you need to monitor SQL, Exchange, Wireless Networks, VMware Environments, File Servers, Web Servers or SAN utlization, WhatsUp Gold can help.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nAs a winner of <a href=\"http://www.whatsupgold.com/resources/awards.aspx#\">countless awards</a>, WhatsUp Gold, is a tried and true network monitoring/server management solution. Currently in version 14.4, the software application has become even more user friendly. I am speaking so highly of it, because WhatsUp Gold helped me isolate a problem for a customer that had been dealing with an intermittent issue. After quickly installing WhatsUp Gold about a week ago, we whittled down the issue, eliminated what the problem was/was not. We ultimately arrived at the solution.\n\nSetting up the dashboard was a breeze, and automating the reporting is another great feature that I recommend as well.\n\nThere are several new features in Version 14.4 that translate directly over to core business needs:<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/WUGnewfeatures.jpg\"></a> \n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/WUGnewfeatures1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-3612 aligncenter\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/WUGnewfeatures1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"453\" /></a></p>\n \n\nWhatsUp Gold includes many plug-ins to really ease setup and usage of the product:\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/WUGplugins.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3604\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/WUGplugins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"424\" /></a></p>\n \n\nYou can try it at no-charge for 30 Days, via the <strong><a href=\"http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/download/\">Free Trial</a></strong>. You\'ll get to setup and experience a fully functional version that includes application monitoring and real-time alerts.\n\nThere are currently 3 different editions being offered for WhatsUp Gold (Standard, Premium and Distributed):\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/WUGeditions.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-3616 aligncenter\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/WUGeditions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"628\" /></a>:</p>\n \n\nIf you would like to learn more, then please visit <a href=\"http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/whatsup-gold-core/index.aspx\"><strong>WhatsUp Gold</strong> </a>on the internet, and also be sure to check out their cool \"<strong><a href=\"http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/whatsup-gold-core/whatsup-gold-premium/index.aspx#Videos\">How-To Videos</a></strong>\" which can quickly help in getting acclimated with the product.\n\nThey also have a free <strong><a href=\"https://ipswitchtraining.webex.com/mw0306lc/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=ipswitchtraining\">webinar</a></strong> every Wednesday at 2 PM EST, and if you are interested this is a great place to go next.\n\nWhatsUp Gold is a great product, thant can help you \"know\" what is going on within your network, and really assist in the identification of issues as they arise. The data that you get from the reporting and analysis will greatly shorten the time involved to resolve issues moving forward.','WHATSUP GOLD AND THE IMPORTANCE OF NETWORK INSIGHT','','publish','open','open','','whatsup-gold-and-the-importance-of-network-insight','','','2011-02-22 12:00:32','2011-02-22 17:00:32','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3603',0,'post','',0),(3668,8,'2011-02-24 23:07:05','2011-02-25 04:07:05','With VMware\'s acquisition of Zimbra and the release of Zimbra Collaboration Server 7 you can customize you Zimbra desktop or web client experience to be much more than just an email/collaboration client.  Custom Zimlets developed with JavaScript or Java Server Pages utilizing AJAX techniques allow for rich application development and tight integration with the Zimbra Desktop/Web Client that other proprietary collaboration portals cannot.\n\nZimbra\'s open source nature allows complete customization of the environment.  While complete customization is possible, the Zimlet framework allows for Rich integration with the other components in Zimbra while masking the unnecessary complexities of the overall function.  Allowing for rapid integration of key business tasks, information and processes directly into the Zimbra Client gives the end user a powerful collaboration platform that can rival some of the mainstream collaboration platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint, DotNetNuke and Joomla.\n\nZimbra\'s available Virtual Appliance and platform independant architecture allow it to be agile and Cloud ready.  No reason to maintaing large inflexible mail/portal solutions.  With custom Zimlets eGroup can help you extend the Zimbra environment to be a one stop location for all business functions.  It\'s platform independant architecture coupled with flexible application delivery with tools like VMware ThinApp can allow for a truly device in-specific End User Computing enviroment.\n\neGroup is committed to End User Computing and the mission of your apps, any device, anywhere!','ZIMBRA CUSTOM ZIMLETS! MORE THAN JUST A E-MAIL','','publish','open','open','','zimbra-custom-zimlets-more-than-just-a-e-mail','','','2011-02-24 23:07:05','2011-02-25 04:07:05','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3668',0,'post','',0),(3674,8,'2011-02-24 23:13:07','2011-02-25 04:13:07','Here is a custom zimlet that allows you to connect the eGroup Blog directly to your Zimbra Desktop!  Adapted from the popular RSS feed Zimlet the eGroup Blog Zimlet allows you to keep up to date with all eGroup\'s Blog posts directly in your Zimbra Desktop client or Zimbra Web Client.\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/com_zimbra_egrouprss.zip\">com_zimbra_egrouprss</a>\n\nThe above Zimlet .zip file can be imported directly into the WC or ZD.  Stay tuned for updates as we expand it\'s features.\n\nHave a great Zimlet idea? Leave it in the comments!','ZIMBRA ZIMLET:  eGroup Blog RSS Zimlet','','publish','open','open','','zimbra-zimlet-egroup-blog-rss-zimlet','','','2011-02-24 23:13:07','2011-02-25 04:13:07','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3674',0,'post','',0),(3655,13,'2011-02-24 23:15:46','2011-02-25 04:15:46','Cisco’s <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns944/index.html\">Unified Computing Systems </a>(UCS) has acquired the reputation of leading the next-generation of data center platforms by merging together the IT needs of computing, networking, storage access and virtualization into one unified system.  \n\nNow until April 30, 2011, Cisco has announced (9) extensively discounted UCS B-Series Blade Server and C-Series Rack-Mount Server Bundles that are fully configured and ready to be implemented in any data center.  This is a great opportunity for any company to experience the next-generation of data center platforms with Cisco\'s UCS at an exceptionally low entry point.\n\n<strong>UCS B-Series Smart Play Promo Summary</strong> \n\n<!--more-->\n\nThe Smart Play UCS B-Series  Bundles have (5) options that range from an introductory priced B200 bundle to a high performance B230 Bundle.  These B-Series Smart Play Bundles are offering significant bundled price reduction as well as buy one Fabric Interconnect get one FREE or a FREE chassis with (4) B200 blades.\n\n <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/B-Series.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3658\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/B-Series.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"368\" /></a>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>UCS C-Series Smart Play Promo Summary</strong>\n\nThe Smart Play UCS C-Series Bundles have (4) options that are equally priced to be among the most competitive price point in the market.  These C-Series Smart Play Bundles are offering significant bundled price reductions as well as the following:\n<ol>\n	<li>C200 Bundle includes 8GB of memory and (2) 500 GB SATA Drives for FREE,</li>\n	<li>C210 Bundle includes 24GB of memory and a SAS Controller for FREE,</li>\n	<li>C250 Bundle includes 96GB of memory, a SAS controller and dual power supplies for FREE,</li>\n	<li>and the C200 Performance Pack includes Two Fabric Interconnects with (7) C200 servers for FREE</li>\n</ol>\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/C-Series.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3661\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/C-Series.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"388\" /></a>\n\nFor further information and pricing on these Cisco Smart Play Bundle Promotions, please email <a href=\"mailto:info@eGroup-us.com\">info@eGroup-us.com</a> or call (843) 284-0146.','CISCO ANNOUNCES UCS “SMART PLAY” BUNDLE PROMOTIONS','','publish','open','open','','cisco-%e2%80%9cucs-smart-play%e2%80%9d-bundle-promotion','','','2011-02-24 23:15:46','2011-02-25 04:15:46','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3655',0,'post','',0),(3684,8,'2011-02-25 00:18:13','2011-02-25 05:18:13','VMware View 4.6 was released today and adds several great features to the VMware View environment.  The main feature being PCoIP over SSL VPN: UDP or TCP.  View Desktops delivered securely and reliably over public networks and the internet.  Now have your Windows Desktop on your IPad will on the go!\n\nFor an in depth look at the PCoIP over SSL VPN setup check out this blog post... <a href=\"http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1685&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Myvirtualcloudnet+%28myvirtualcloud.net%29\">http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1685&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Myvirtualcloudnet+%28myvirtualcloud.net%29</a>\n\nSome other great features in the release of View 4.6\n<ul>\n	<li>Enhanced USB device compatibility:  Support for USB redirection for syncing iPhones and iPads.  Improved scanner and printer support.</li>\n	<li>Keyboard mapping issues resolved</li>\n	<li>New timeout option for Single Sign On Users</li>\n	<li>160+ Bug Fixes</li>\n	<li>Experimental Support for Win7 SP1 RC</li>\n	<li>Internationalization</li>\n</ul>\nCheck out the full release notes at VMware.com here... <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/support/view46/doc/view-46-release-notes.html\">http://www.vmware.com/support/view46/doc/view-46-release-notes.html</a>\n\nStay tuned for more as we roll out View 4.6 next week!','VMware View 4.6 RELEASED!','','publish','open','open','','vmware-view-4-6-released','','','2011-02-25 00:18:13','2011-02-25 05:18:13','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3684',0,'post','',0),(3686,8,'2011-02-25 00:30:39','2011-02-25 05:30:39','A maintenance release to VMware\'s leading application virtualization solution was released today.  VMware ThinApp 4.6.1  is a maintenance release on the popular ThinApp 4.6 packager released in Q3 of 2010.  With it comes some great improvements that we have already had the priveledge of testing out.\n\nOver 160 bug fixes and known issues were resolved in this update.  Most notably, several important fixes for Office 2010 support.  Depending on licensing the packaging of Office 2010 will be a bit different and VMware will be releasing specific instructions for each license type in the coming days.  This is a much welcome addition to ThinApps packaging abilities and bodes well for future success in packaging MSFT applications with the new licensing/activation code.\n\nThinApp 4.6.1 also supports several other key features:\n<ul>\n	<li>The option to control Child Process names from the package.ini.  This make dependency checking and process monitoring during package debugging/deployment much easier.</li>\n	<li>Support for Side By Side COM:  A much welcomed addition to ThinApp\'s application support and increases the package success rate with custom applications and COM dependant applications higher.</li>\n</ul>\nFor full details on the features in ThinApp 4.6.1 please consult the VMware ThinApp Blog at... <a href=\"http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2011/02/vmware-thinapp-461-whats-new.html\">http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2011/02/vmware-thinapp-461-whats-new.html</a>\n\nStay tuned for more ThinApp details as we start a new initiative to outline eGroup\'s ThinApp successes and stories from the road here on the eGroup Blog and at <a href=\"http://development.egroup-us.com\">http://development.egroup-us.com</a>.','ThinApp 4.6.1 released today','','publish','open','open','','thinapp-4-6-1-released-today','','','2011-02-25 00:30:39','2011-02-25 05:30:39','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3686',0,'post','',0),(3688,8,'2011-02-25 09:01:22','2011-02-25 14:01:22','Warning:  This post is a straight copy from the ThinApp team at VMware on how to package Microsoft Office 2010 on VMWare ThinApp 4.6.1.  Many thanks to the hard work by the VMware ThinApp Team!\n\nLink to original post:  <a href=\"http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2011/02/quick-start-guide-for-deploying-office-2010-using-thinapp-461.html\">http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2011/02/quick-start-guide-for-deploying-office-2010-using-thinapp-461.html</a>\n<h5>Anxious to create your own Office 2010 packages using ThinApp 4.6.1?   The following quick-start guide will help lead you through the process.   If you haven\'t captured an application using ThinApp before, <a href=\"http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2010/12/thinapp-poc-in-a-blog.html\" target=\"_self\">make sure to read this blog entry first</a>.</h5>\n<h3><a href=\"http://blogs.vmware.com/.a/6a00d8341c328153ef0147e2ce6983970b-pi\"><img src=\"http://blogs.vmware.com/.a/6a00d8341c328153ef0147e2ce698e970b-pi\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"240\" height=\"60\" /></a></h3>\n<h4>Before starting, note Office 2010’s system requirements:\n<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624351.aspx#section1\">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624351.aspx#section1</a></h4>\n<h4>Capturing Office 2010</h4>\n<h5>Capturing on Windows XP SP3 with Volume Activation (KMS) installer</h5>\n<ul>\n	<li>Copy Microsoft .NET 3.5 and Office installation files to the capture machine.</li>\n	<li>Install ThinApp on capture machine (or run Setup Capture from a network share)</li>\n	<li>Run the Setup Capture wizard until you complete the prescan operation.</li>\n	<li>On the Install Application page of the Setup Capture wizard, minimize the wizard and install Microsoft .NET 3.5</li>\n	<li>The Microsoft .NET installation generates the mscorsvw.exe process that continues for an extended period, stop the process with the ngen.exe tool. By typing this in a cmd window: \"C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727ngen.exe executequeueditems\"</li>\n	<li>Start the Microsoft Office 2010 setup wizard.</li>\n	<li>Accept the terms of agreement</li>\n	<li>On the Choose the installation you want dialog box, click the Customize button.</li>\n	<li>Select Microsoft Office &gt; Run all from My Computer.</li>\n	<li>Click Install Now to install Microsoft Office 2010.</li>\n	<li>Run postscan</li>\n	<li>Change the Inventory name to something appropriate for your use.</li>\n	<li>Before building project, move the OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform folder from %drive_C%Documents and SettingsAll UsersMicrosoft to %Common AppData%Microsoft</li>\n	<li>Put the following in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.txt: \"isolation_writecopy HKEY_CURRENT_USEREnvironment\n                                                                         Value=ALLUSERSPROFILE\n                                                                         REG_SZ~%Common AppData%\"</li>\n	<li>Put the following in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt: \"isolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsWindows SearchPreferences\n                                                                         Value=PreventIndexingOutlook\n                                                                         REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00\"</li>\n</ul>\n<h5>Capturing on Windows XP SP3 with Retail installer</h5>\n<ul>\n	<li>Copy Microsoft .NET 3.5 and Office installation files to the capture machine.</li>\n	<li>Make sure you have access to the internet</li>\n	<li>Install ThinApp on capture machine (or run Setup Capture from a network share)</li>\n	<li>Run the Setup Capture wizard until you complete the prescan operation.</li>\n	<li>On the Install Application page of the Setup Capture wizard, minimize the wizard and install Microsoft .NET 3.5</li>\n	<li>The Microsoft .NET installation generates the mscorsvw.exe process that continues for an extended period, stop the process with the ngen.exe tool. By typing this in a cmd window: \"C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727ngen.exe executequeueditems\"</li>\n	<li>Start the Microsoft Office 2010 setup wizard.</li>\n	<li>Type in your product key and make sure to check the box in the bottom that says \"Attempt to automatically activated my product online\" then click Continue</li>\n	<li>Accept the terms of agreement.</li>\n	<li>On the Choose the installation you want dialog box, click the Customize button.</li>\n	<li>Select Microsoft Office &gt; Run all from My Computer.</li>\n	<li>Click Install Now to install Microsoft Office 2010.</li>\n	<li>Run postscan</li>\n	<li>Change the Inventory name to something appropriate for your use.</li>\n	<li>Before building the projec,t ove the OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform folder from %drive_C%Documents and SettingsAll UsersMicrosoft to %Common AppData%Microsoft</li>\n	<li>Put the following in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.txt: \"isolation_writecopy HKEY_CURRENT_USEREnvironment\n                                                                         Value=ALLUSERSPROFILE\n                                                                         REG_SZ~%Common AppData%\"</li>\n	<li>Put the following in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt: \"isolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsWindows SearchPreferences\n                                                                         Value=PreventIndexingOutlook\n                                                                         REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00\"</li>\n</ul>\n<h5>Capturing on Windows XP SP3 with MAK installer</h5>\n<ul>\n	<li>Copy Microsoft .NET 3.5 and Office installation files to the capture machine.</li>\n	<li>Make sure you have access to the internet</li>\n	<li>Install ThinApp on capture machine (or run Setup Capture from a network share)</li>\n	<li>Run the Setup Capture wizard until you complete the prescan operation.</li>\n	<li>On the Install Application page of the Setup Capture wizard, minimize the wizard and install Microsoft .NET 3.5</li>\n	<li>The Microsoft .NET installation generates the mscorsvw.exe process that continues for an extended period, stop the process with the ngen.exe tool. By typing this in a cmd window: \"C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727ngen.exe executequeueditems\"</li>\n	<li>Edit Office 2010 installation Config.xml file to enter your MAK key:\nBy default, the Config.xml file is stored in the core product folders in the Microsoft Office 2010 ISO (core_product_folder_name.WW folder, for example, ProPlus.WW)</li>\n	<li>Add the following line to the Config.xml file and save it to your local drive:\n&lt;PIDKEY Value=\"AAAAABBBBBCCCCCDDDDDEEEEE\" /&gt;\nWhere AAAAABBBBBCCCCCDDDDDEEEEE is the 25-character product key.</li>\n	<li>To start the Microsoft Office 2010 setup wizard and apply the settings in Config.xml, at a command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:\nSetup.exe /config &lt;path of Config.xml file&gt;</li>\n	<li>Accept the terms of agreement.</li>\n	<li>On the Choose the installation you want dialog box, click the Customize button.</li>\n	<li>Select Microsoft Office &gt; Run all from My Computer.</li>\n	<li>Click Install Now to install Microsoft Office 2010.</li>\n	<li>Run postscan</li>\n	<li>Change the Inventory name to something appropriate for your use.</li>\n	<li>Before building the project , move the OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform folder from %drive_C%Documents and SettingsAll UsersMicrosoft to %Common AppData%Microsoft</li>\n	<li>Put the following in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.txt:\nisolation_writecopy HKEY_CURRENT_USEREnvironment\nValue=ALLUSERSPROFILE\nREG_SZ~%Common AppData%</li>\n	<li>Put the following in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt:\nisolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsWindows SearchPreferences\nValue=PreventIndexingOutlook\nREG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00</li>\n</ul>\n<h4>Deploying Office 2010</h4>\n<h5>Deploying on WXP SP3 32, W2K3 R2 32, W2K3 R2 64, W2K8 32, W2K8 SP2 32, Vista SP1 32, Vista SP2 32, Win7 32, Win7 64 Vista SP1 64, Vista SP2 64.  Machines should have a minimum of 512MB of RAM available.</h5>\n<ul>\n	<li>If deploying on a W2K3 install MSXML 6.0</li>\n	<li>Register the executables or install the MSI.</li>\n	<li>Run Office 2010 applications</li>\n</ul>\n<h4>Advanced Capturing</h4>\n<h5>.NET 3.5</h5>\nIf the machines that you plan on deploying to already have .NET 3.5 installed then it is not necessary to capture .NET 3.5. This though will also cause a second issue in that the .NET Programmability Support features in Office 2010 and the Business Connectivity Services features might not install, depending on the OS you are capturing on. If these side affects are tolerable then you can save a couple of hundred megabytes in the size of your project.','HowTo: ThinApp Microsoft Office 2010 WITH VMware ThinApp 4.6.1','','publish','open','open','','howto-thinapp-microsoft-office-2010-with-vmware-thinapp-4-6-1','','','2011-02-25 09:01:22','2011-02-25 14:01:22','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3688',0,'post','',0),(3693,8,'2011-02-27 14:42:56','2011-02-27 19:42:56','Have been completely working off of VMWare ThinApp 4.6.1 virtualized Office 2010 application for a few days now and for the most part have had a lot of success.  The activation issues and some of the known problems were resolved with the ThinApp 4.6.1 release.   See shameless copy post here for general instructions...\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=3688\">http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=3688</a>\n\nHowever, I have ran into some issues surrounding Outlook 2010, MSIEXEC, etc... that have caused issues launching the virtualized Outlook.  Most of these issues seem to be related to License Version, Packager OS and Desktop OS.  Remebering a few old but still relevant Office pointers allowed me to make it 100% reliable (and fast!).\n\nPackager:  WinXP SP3 32bit\n\nDesktop: Win7 64bit Ultimate\n\nThinApp version: 4.6.1\n\nOffice Version: Professional retail key\n\nInstructions can vary if there are changes to the rules above but if you follow the instructions in the link above you will most likely be able to set up a mail account but after that you will get the \"Could Not Start Outlook error\" after a MSI installer crashes with another error.  You will see issues like...\n<div><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">Product: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 -- Error 1719. The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance.</span></div>\nand...\n<div><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\" lang=\"EN\">Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x800401FE</span></div><br /><br />\n\nTo resolve these take a look at the \"Issues with ThinApp and Microsoft Office 2010\" kb article on VMWare\'s site.  Pick out the changes that match your environment.  In my case it was these changes to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE file.\n\n<a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1022287\">http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1022287</a>\n	<li>\n<div>The Outlook component of Office 2010 fails to launch after account configuration when deployed to 32-bit Windows 7 unless these entries are added to the bottom of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt in the project directory:</div>\nisolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInstallerUserDataS-1-5-18ComponentsCC427126E291CBE47960B02470798141\nValue=00004102110000000000000000F01FEC\nREG_SZ~02:SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows SearchProtocolHandlersMapiProgID#2300\n\nisolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInstallerUserDataS-1-5-18Components1C142428AC6D17249BC6F1CEA00887F3\nValue=00004102110000000000000000F01FEC\nREG_SZ~02:SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPreviewHandlers{435fdba0-964c-43a7-8aff-cc94e21b2249}#2300\n\nisolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPreviewHandlers\nValue={435fdba0-964c-43a7-8aff-cc94e21b2249}\nREG_SZ~Microsoft Office Outlook MAPI Preview Handler#2300\n\nisolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows SearchProtocolHandlersMapi\n\nisolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows SearchProtocolHandlersMapi\nValue=ProgID\nREG_SZ~Outlook.Search.MAPIHandler.1#2300\n\nHappy ThinApping!</li>\n \n','HowTo:  THINAPP Microsoft Office 2010, known issues and resolutions','','publish','open','open','','howto-thinapp-microsoft-office-2010-known-issues-and-resolutions','','','2011-02-27 14:42:56','2011-02-27 19:42:56','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3693',0,'post','',1),(3638,2,'2011-02-28 08:00:33','2011-02-28 13:00:33','eGroup\'s VNX \"First Look\" Carolinas Tour: Be one of the first in the world to see it!\n\nJoin eGroup and EMC vSpecialists for the VNX \"First Look\" Carolinas Tour and learn how EMC\'s VNX platform can enable your business - no matter how big or small - to run faster, simpler, smarter and more secure than ever before.\n\neGroup\'s mobile datacenter will be deployed on-site at each venue, offering customers the opportunity to have a first look at the EMC VNX 5300 in a hands-on lab environment! Also featuring Cisco UCS Servers, Nexus 5000 10GbE unified fabric, and VMware View!\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/VNX-Tour-Image-copy.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3642\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/VNX-Tour-Image-copy-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" /></a>\n\nClick on a city for agenda and registration!\n\nMarch 7 Raleigh (*Cancelled)\n\n<a href=\"http://egroupeventgreensboro.eventbrite.com/\">March 8 Greensboro</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://egroupeventcharlotte.eventbrite.com/\">March 9 Charlotte</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://egroupeventcolumbia.eventbrite.com/\">March 10 Columbia</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://egroupeventcharleston.eventbrite.com/\">March 11 Charleston</a>\n\n<strong>One lucky organization will receive a VNXe as the grand prize giveaway - just for attending!* There will also be giveaways at each individual event!</strong>\n\nThe EMC VNX family delivers industry-leading innovation and enterprise capabilities for file and block storage in a scalable, easy-to-use solution. This next-generation storage platform combines powerful and flexible hardware with advanced efficiency, management, and protection software to meet the demanding needs of today\'s enterprises.\n\nAt the event, you\'ll discover how to address today\'s business challenges with unified storage and learn from expert discussions and demonstrations on:\n\n- vSpecialist delivered overview of the VNX family and new capabilities\n- Unified storage for multi-protocol file and block storage\n- Admininstation simplicity with EMC Unisphere\n- FAST cache and auto-tiering to get the most out of your Flash drives\n- Why VNX is the #1 storage choice for your virtual environment\n\nQuestions? e-mail <a href=\"mailto:lwilmes@eGroup-us.com\">lwilmes@eGroup-us.com</a> or call 1-877-eGROUP-1.\n\n<strong>* Winner will be drawn at random at the end of the week from all business cards submitted by attendees across each event, and all attendees will be notified by close of business Friday, March 18th via e-mail of the winning organization. Due to the exclusive nature of the event and material, pre-registration for attendance is required, and valid photo IDs must be presented for verification prior to entrance at each venue.</strong>','eGROUP\'S \"FIRST LOOK\" VNX CAROLINAS TOUR: BE ONE OF THE FIRST IN THE WORLD TO SEE IT!','','publish','open','open','','egroups-first-look-vnx-carolinas-tour-be-one-of-the-first-in-the-world-to-see-it','','','2011-02-28 08:00:33','2011-02-28 13:00:33','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3638',0,'post','',0),(3701,16,'2011-02-28 22:26:39','2011-03-01 03:26:39','Recently, while performing a POC for a Charlotte based law firm, we ran into a case where the client was suffering from the inability to upgrade their Citrix XenApp infrastructure to a Windows 2008 64-bit platform. The issue centered around an older version of a popular legal oriented software package called Elite which is developed by Thomson Elite.\n\nThe packaging of this application was by no definition a difficult one. .Net and a few other dependencies were installed and within 30 minutes we were able to successfully run this legacy version of the application on Windows 2008, Windows 7 and 64bit machines. Along with Elite 3.6, we also ThinApp\'d IE 7 to provide access to the Elite Web Component which was incompatible with newer version of Internet Explorer.\n\nThe IE package was left clean as the client obtains MSIs directly from vendors such as Adobe, Java, and Apple and deploys them via their AD infrastructure. This allowed them to leverage their existing application deployment methods and deliver those plugins to multiple browser versions including the ThinApp\'d Internet Explorer 7.\n\nThis was a \"quick win\" for the customer and immediately demonstrated the raw efficiencies that can be obtained by virtualizing your applications with ThinApp from VMware. This solved a major hurdle to upgrading their underlying infrastructure while also gaining efficiencies in application deployment and the user experience.\n\nOn to the next ThinApp!','THINAPP SOLVES THE MOST DIFFICULT APPLICATION ISSUES - ELITE 3.6','','publish','open','open','','thinapp-solves-the-most-difficult-application-issues-elite-3-6','','','2011-02-28 22:26:39','2011-03-01 03:26:39','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3701',0,'post','',0),(3710,12,'2011-03-04 08:53:03','2011-03-04 13:53:03','Ran into this issue late last week, where a customer with a multi-site design had ESX hosts in Site A show up as disconnected in vCenter. The vCenter server runs in Site B-- and they just turned up a new circuit between the sites.\n\nVMware has a pretty good KB article on how to troubleshoot issues with ESX(i) hosts going disconnected in vCenter (<cite>kb.vmware.com/kb/1003409). </cite>I\'ve been down that path before, and had a good idea of what to look for, but nothing seemed to be \"wrong\". I was able to ping between host and vCenter (host to vCenter, or vCenter to host), resolve names, verified correct management IPs, restarted managed services, etc.\n\nSo after spending about 45 minutes troubleshooting and scratching my head, I ran a few protocol analyzers to see what was actually happening on the wire-- and pretty quickly saw what the issue was.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nThe ESX host \"heartbeats\" are all apparently sent at 1500 MTU-- and I\'d see heartbeats sent from the ESX host, but never arrive on the other end. Anything over about 1460 bytes was getting fragmented/never arriving. After calling the provider they verified that they weren\'t able to pass anything over 1460 bytes, reconfigured some stuff on their end, and viola, problem solved!','ESX HOST DISCONNECTED in vCenter ','','publish','open','open','','esx-host-disconnected-in-vcenter','','','2011-03-04 08:53:03','2011-03-04 13:53:03','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3710',0,'post','',0),(3718,44,'2011-03-08 10:03:00','2011-03-08 15:03:00','Buried in the release notes of VMware vCenter 4.1.0 Update 1 is a notice that future releases of VMware Update Manager will drop support for patching virtual machine guest operating systems with operating system patches. Deploying upgrades of VMware Tools will continue to be supported.\n\nThe release notes can be found <a href=\"http://www.configuresoft.net/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vum_41u1_rel_notes.html\">here</a>.','VMWARE UPDATE MANAGER TO DROP SUPPORT FOR PATCHING GUEST OPERATING SYSTEMS','','publish','open','open','','vmware-update-manager-to-drop-support-for-patching-guest-operating-systems','','','2011-03-08 10:03:00','2011-03-08 15:03:00','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3718',0,'post','',0),(3720,44,'2011-03-08 10:08:14','2011-03-08 15:08:14','So the other day I was working on a VM and I needed to add an additional HD to it.  This is easy enough, after I added this I went into Disk Management in Windows 2008 and formatted it.   Then, for some reason, I selected \"Mark Partition as active\"; a warning message popped up which I ignored and moved on.  Everything was working great.  I setup the HD for the application I was working on, everything was right with the world... until I rebooted the VM.<!--more-->\n\nYa... don\'t change the active partition.  That warning message was trying to tell me that the active partition needs to be assigned to the OS partition.  Opps!  I figured the fix is easy enough.  I booted the machine using a Windows 2008 ISO, went into repair mode, brought up a command prompt and used diskpart to change the active partition using the following commands:\n<ul>\n	<li>select disk X</li>\n	<li>select partition X</li>\n	<li>active</li>\n</ul>\nI rebooted again and still had a failure.  This is why I decided to make a blog post about this error.  I learned that the active partition is not the C: which I would assume it is... its actually that 100MB system drive that Windows 2008 makes.  I had to run through the command line again and this time select the system partition and make that one the active.  Again, this is all pretty simple stuff, but it caught me off guard.  I never knew that the 100MB partition was the active.  Now I know, and so I share it.\n\n-Gunnar','Accidently changed the Active Partition','','publish','open','open','','accidently-changed-the-active-partition','','','2011-03-08 10:08:14','2011-03-08 15:08:14','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3720',0,'post','',1),(3729,2,'2011-03-08 11:43:15','2011-03-08 16:43:15','<em>Broad Customer and Partner Demand for the VNX Family’s Simplicity, Efficiency, Power and Affordability</em>\n\nHOPKINTON, MA—March 8, 2011—EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced EMC® VNXe® and VNX® unified storage solutions (introduced in January 2011) are now available and shipping worldwide. (The systems are available from eGroup.)<!--more--><strong></strong>\n\n<strong>Announcement Highlights</strong>\n\n- EMC announced worldwide general availability of the EMC VNXe series targeting small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) and offered primarily through EMC partners; and the EMC VNX series, which consolidate the leading features and functionality of the award-winning EMC CLARiiON® and EMC Celerra® systems into a single, powerful family of unified storage arrays that scale to datacenter-class solutions.\n\n- The VNXe series is breaking records as the world’s simplest unified storage system, providing the ability to deploy — in just a few clicks — storage for hundreds of Exchange mailboxes or VMware data stores. The VNXe series, designed for the IT generalist with limited storage experience, offers an entry price of under $10,000 (USD).\n\n- The VNX series is breaking records as the fastest and most efficient midrange storage system on the market. According to a recent benchmark performance test (SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3) VNX Series is 49% faster than an HP system (BL860c i2 4-node HA-NFS Cluster)1, 23% faster than an IBM system (IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage 16-node cluster, Version 1.2)2, and 160% faster than the NetApp FAS 6240 Series system 3.\n\n- In related news, the new EMC 25 % Storage Efficiency Guarantee enables VNX series customers to now purchase 25% less raw capacity than products from any other unified storage solution, while benefiting from the same amount of useable capacity.\n\n<strong>What Partners Are Saying</strong>\n\n“Our customers want storage that is simple, reliable and able to seamlessly integrate with the applications they use to run their business. EMC has hit a home run with the VNX family, making it easy for customers to deploy. They\'ve made the investment to help us make VNX the foundation of our comprehensive solutions with some of the most extensive training we\'ve seen,” said Daniel Serpico, President of FusionStorm.\n\n“EMC\'s VNX and VNXe have enabled ICI to expand its reach into midrange and SMB markets. To keep up with the accelerated demand that ICI is already seeing with the VNXe in the SMB space, ICI is adding more members to its SMB focused team. EMC has also made it easier than ever for partners to complete product training in no time at all,” said Jamie Shepard, EVP, Technology Solutions at International Computerware, Inc. (ICI).\n\n<strong>VNXe Series Product Highlights</strong>\n\n- Powerful application-based provisioning wizards for breakthrough simplicity, including support for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Hyper-V.\n- Compact 2U and 3U packaging fits almost any environment.\n- Built-in support for file-based (CIFS, NFS) and block-based (iSCSI) storage.\n- No single-point-of-failure design.\n- Built-in data protection, including replication.\n- Advanced efficiency features including thin provisioning, file deduplication and compression.\n- Integrated self-help and support infrastructure automates and speeds problem resolution.\n- Advanced 6Gbps SAS and Nearline SAS drive support.\n- Scalable up to 120 disk drives (240 TB).\n\n<strong>VNX Series Product Highlights</strong>\n\n- Combines the market-leading capabilities of EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra into a single, unified platform—with 3-times the performance of previous generations.\n- Based on Intel Xeon 5600 multicore processor technology to maximize solution throughput and bandwidth\n- Industry’s most advanced automated storage tiering (FAST VP).\n- Only storage solution offering both automated file and block sub-LUN tiering using FAST VP and powerful, extendable system cache with FAST Cache.\n- Supports 6Gbps SAS, Nearline SAS, and SSD drive types.\n- Scales up-to 2 PB per system (1000 drives).\n- Support for multiple protocols and data-types including: FC, iSCSI, FCoE, NFS, CIFS, SOAP, REST.\n- Integrated data protection, security and compliance.\n\nThe general availability of the VNX family of unified storage systems coincides with the new EMC 25% more efficient storage guarantee, highlighting the simplicity, efficiency and power of EMC’s unified storage offerings.\n\nThe general availability of VNX and VNXe complete a recent string of record breaking unified storage news coming from EMC, which maintained its standing as the top provider of external disk storage systems for the 14th consecutive year in factory revenue, according to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, March 2011 (see related announcement). Additionally, in February EMC shattered benchmark performance records with a Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation benchmark (see SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3).\n\n“When EMC unveiled the new VNX family, we made a very public and worldwide commitment to our customers — and channel partners — that we had developed and would deliver the industry’s most simple, efficient, powerful and affordable unified storage solution in the market. Since then, we’ve spoken with thousands of customers and partners and enthusiasm, interest and demand for the VNXe and VNX have been excellent. We’re looking forward to helping customers take advantage of the many features of our unified solutions to more easily and more effectively manage their information,” said Rich Napolitano, President, Unified Storage Division at EMC Corporation.\n\n<strong>About EMC</strong>\n\nEMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.\n\n # # #\n\nEMC, VNX, CLARiiON and Celerra are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. SPEC® is registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results reflect results posted on February 23, 2011. All SPECsfs2008 NFSv3 results are at http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008nfs.html. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.','NEW EMC VNXe AND VNX UNIFIED STORAGE NOW SHIPPING WORLDWIDE','','publish','open','open','','new-emc-vnxe-and-vnx-unified-storage-now-shipping-worldwide','','','2011-03-08 11:43:15','2011-03-08 16:43:15','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3729',0,'post','',0),(3739,12,'2011-03-08 15:59:56','2011-03-08 20:59:56','During the VNX Roadshow event in Greensboro today, we decided to fire up FAST Cache, create a FAST Cache enabled pool, carve out a LUN, and blast it by provisioning 100 virtual desktops with VMware View.\n\nBacking the pool was ten 10K SAS drives. Calculated out with a base of 150 IOPS per drive, you\'d expect to see a maximum of 1500 IOPS (not calculating any RAID-related penalties). Utilizing FAST Cache, these are the numbers we were able to drive-- tiger blood!\n\n<img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1978/tigerbloodtimestwo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"789\" height=\"98\" />','EMC VNX ROADSHOW - FAST CACHE Demo','','publish','open','open','','emc-vnx-roadshow-fast-cache-demo','','','2011-03-08 15:59:56','2011-03-08 20:59:56','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3739',0,'post','',0),(3707,16,'2011-03-09 09:17:26','2011-03-09 14:17:26','We\'ve all been waiting anxiously and today the View Client for iPad is appearing in the iTunes store! Some key features of the new iPad View Client.\n\nPCoIP Support\nVirtual Touch Pad\nSystem Monitor for Performance\nIn-Depth Preferences Control\n\nHere\'s a link to the <a href=\"http://blogs.vmware.com/view/2011/03/view-client-for-ipad.html\">VMware Blog</a>.','VMWARE RELEASES VIEW CLIENT FOR iPAD!','','publish','open','open','','vmware-releases-view-client-for-ipad','','','2011-03-09 09:17:26','2011-03-09 14:17:26','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3707',0,'post','',0),(3753,44,'2011-03-09 11:43:43','2011-03-09 16:43:43','<div>\n\nYesterday VMware officially announced its new management tool vCenter Operations.\n\nThis product is VMware\'s first release of a management tool based off of Integrien\'s AliveVM (which VMware recently purchased).  However, this is not just a simple rebranding of a Intergien\'s product.  VMware has brought together the best of AliveVM and added a much deeper element to it.\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/vCenterOps1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3769\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/vCenterOps1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" /></a>\n\n<!--more-->vCenter Operations uses trending, and detailed analytics to provide you with a green/yellow/red assessment of your environment.  This information is compiled into a quick 0-100+ score of aspects like capacity, workload, and health.  These numbers come from historical information that is compared to the current standing.   What\'s really nice about this information is, since it is using historical information rather than flat line hard coded threshholds, the amount of false alams are significatly reduced.  We all have been in the situation where we get too many alerts sent to us, so we do one of two things, either start ignoring the alerts, or turn the alerts off.  With vCenter Operations, it is \"intelligent\" enough to understand the trend of how systems usually operate.  For example, when users log on in the morning and resources spike, normally you would get an alert stating that you have passed the threshold of usage on a host, and continue getting those alerts everyday.  There is nothing wrong with the host, and it runs within spec the rest of the day, so what good is that alert? None.  With vCenter Operations, it \"learns\" that those spikes in the morning when everyone comes in are normal, and adjusts the bell curve to link up with the users logging in.  This way it doesn\'t send the alert for normal usage, it will only send the alert if the host goes out side it\'s adaptive tolerance level.  Rarely does IT infrastructure work off of a flat line usage graph, there are dips and swells based off of time of the day, week, month, and year.  vCenter Operations learns these fluctuations and is able to analyze all of that information to simplify the alerting, and make it so that the alerts are pertinent and reliable.\n\nIt comes in three flavors: Standard, Advanced and Enterprise.  vCenter Ops Standard and Advanced compile all the data into from the virtual infrastructure only (Standard is limited to 500 VMs).  Where as Enterprise provides the ability to tie in other utilities (ie. Service Center Operations Manager) and compile that information into the vCenter Operations system.  Still providing you with a scored number that is adaptive to the historical information provided by the outside utility.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://www.vmware.com/files/images/diagrams/VMW-DGRM-vCNTR-OPS-Version-Details-102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" />\n\nFor more information check out the link <a title=\"vCenter Operations\" href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-operations/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.  Also below is a great video demo of vCenter Operations Standard from Eric Sloof.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft1vKHdPPUE\n\n</div>','VMware vCenter Operations','','publish','open','open','','vmware-vcenter-operations','','','2011-03-09 11:43:43','2011-03-09 16:43:43','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3753',0,'post','',0),(3758,9,'2011-03-09 14:45:52','2011-03-09 19:45:52','EMC announced yesterday their newly released VNX series unified storage solution is guaranteed to be 25% more efficient than any other unified storage solution on the market.  This announcement comes as eGroup is crossing the Carolina\'s with our VNX \"First Look\" road show.  We are in Charlotte today but it\'s not too late to join us in Columbia, SC tomorrow 3/10 or Charleston, SC on Friday 3/11.  We will also be giving away a free VNXe to a lucky attendee\'s organization.\n\nMore on the EMC announcement -  <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110308-02.htm\">http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110308-02.htm</a>\n\nRegistration for the eGroup Roadshow:\n\nColumbia - <a href=\"http://egroupeventcolumbia.eventbrite.com/\">http://egroupeventcolumbia.eventbrite.com/</a>\n\nCharleston - <a href=\"http://egroupeventcharleston.eventbrite.com/\">http://egroupeventcharleston.eventbrite.com/</a>','EMC ANNOUNCES VNX UNIFIED STORAGE SOLUTIONS ARE 25% MORE EFFICIENT - GUARANTEED','','publish','open','open','','emc-announces-vnx-unified-storage-solutions-are-25-more-efficient-guaranteed','','','2011-03-09 14:45:52','2011-03-09 19:45:52','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3758',0,'post','',0),(3771,12,'2011-03-14 14:58:28','2011-03-14 19:58:28','Ending our VNX roadshow in style, we repeated one of the demonstrations we had performed at each stop on the tour, where we kick off a job provisioning a massive amount of virtual desktops and try to drive as much REAL I/O as we can. Several times during this roadshow we had seen numbers in the range of 15,000 IOPS on a FAST Cache enabled Storage Pool LUN backed by 10 disks. This time we really cranked it up, and broke our own records before bringing the VNX roadshow to an end in our hometown.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9646/charlestonrecord2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"135\" />\n\nThanks again to all who attended! And stay tuned for the announcement of who won the VNXe!!','EMC VNX - FAST Cache + Ten 10K Drives = 17,000+ IOPS!?','','publish','open','open','','emc-vnx-fast-cache-ten-10k-drives-17000-iops','','','2011-03-14 14:58:28','2011-03-14 19:58:28','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3771',0,'post','',0),(3776,44,'2011-03-16 08:54:37','2011-03-16 13:54:37','<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/internet-explorer-9-300x291.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3777\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/internet-explorer-9-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"127\" /></a>\n\nMicrosoft has released it latest version of Internet Explorer.\n\nYou can download it from <a title=\"Microsoft Downloads\" href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nMicrosoft claims that this is the most compatible version of IE yet, however that is still to be seen.  This is an effort from Microsoft to retire IE6 from mainstream use (There is actually a countdown <a title=\"IE6 Countdown\" href=\"http://ie6countdown.com/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>).\n\nIt is important to note that IE9 is <strong>NOT</strong> for Windows XP.  You must have Windows Vista or 7.\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IE9-Screenshot.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3784\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IE9-Screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"358\" /></a>\n\n\n','Internet Explorer 9 Now Available','','publish','open','open','','internet-explorer-9-now-available','','','2011-03-16 08:54:37','2011-03-16 13:54:37','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3776',0,'post','',0),(3786,12,'2011-03-18 13:39:35','2011-03-18 18:39:35','I was asked on Twitter (http://twitter.com/Rattacasa) what I\'ve found to be the most common things overlooked when customers configure iSCSI connectivity for their VMware environments, and how they can be addressed . Here they are:\n\n1. Read the iSCSI SAN Configuration guide from VMware (<a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_iscsi_san_cfg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_iscsi_san_cfg.pdf</a>)\n\n2. Read your storage vendor\'s specific VMware implementation documentation!\n\n<!--more-->\n\n3. Remember to bind your VMkernel interfaces to the iSCSI adapters (page 41. in iSCSI SAN config guide)\n\n4. If you plan to use Jumbo Frames, make sure you enable it on the vSwitch &amp; VMkernel interfaces as well as the upstream physical switch (or physical switch interfaces, depending on make/model). (page 42 in iSCSI SAN CFG Guide).\n\n5. If you\'re going to use a single vSwitch with multiple physical NICs, make sure you override the vSwitch load balancing settings for each VMk and keep a 1:1 mapping between VMkernel intefaces and physical NICs (page 38). It\'s generally simpler to use a separate vSwitch with a single physical NIC and a single VMk for each dedicated iSCSI connection, but some prefer less vSwitches.\n\n6. Verify, verify, verify! Nothing like finding a speed/duplex mismatch when everything was done correctly-- but never verified!\n\nThe most important one above that seemingly resolves most of the others is #1-- read the iSCSI SAN configuration guide. Loads of valuable information in there, and while it is a bit technical, it\'s not overly complicated or hard to follow.','VMware & iSCSI STORAGE - COMMON MISTAKES','','publish','open','open','','vmware-iscsi-storage-common-mistakes','','','2011-03-18 13:39:35','2011-03-18 18:39:35','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3786',0,'post','',0),(3590,23,'2011-03-22 13:49:49','2011-03-22 18:49:49','SharePoint 2010 does not support FIPS compliant algorithms.  Because of this, you will need to change the Local Security Policy; as well as change some registry settings.\n\nLocal Security Policy changes...\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Go to Start &gt; Control Panel &gt; Administrative tools &gt; Local Security Policy</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Under the \"Local Policies\" heading, select \"Security Options\" and look for the entry, \"System cryptography: Use FIPS compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing.\"</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">If entry this is enabled, disable it.</p>\nRegistry changes...\n\nChange all of the following values to \"0\"\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">HKLMSYSTEMControlSet001ControlLSAFipsAlgorithm</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">HKLMSYSTEMControlSet002ControlLSAFipsAlgorithm</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlLSAFipsAlgorithm</p>\nAfter making these changes, you should be able to install and configure SharePoint 2010 successfully.','DISABLE FIPS ALGORITHMS BEFORE INSTALLING SHAREPOINT 2010','','publish','open','open','','disable-fips-algorithms-before-installing-sharepoint-2010','','','2011-03-22 13:49:49','2011-03-22 18:49:49','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3590',0,'post','',0),(3530,23,'2011-03-22 13:59:38','2011-03-22 18:59:38','Have you ever wanted to send a user to a form to fill something out, but you wanted them to be redirected to another page when they were done?  You can do just that with the Source parameter in the QueryString.  Let\'s say that you have a link to a form...\n\nhttp://SPServer/Lists/MyList/Forms/NewItem.aspx\n\nAnd let\'s say that you want the user to be redirected to a link when they Submit or Cancel out of that form.  All you have to do is add the Source parameter to your link, and the form will automatically redirect to whatever you set that parameter to.  For example...\n\nhttp://SPServer/Lists/MyList/Forms/NewItem.aspx?Source=http%3a%2f%2fwww.egroup-us.com\n\nYou will notice that the value of the Source parameter is URL encoded.  This just means that the non-safe characters have been replaced with a set of characters that the browser recognizes (ie %3a = : ).  When the user clicks on this link and Submits or Cancels out of the form, they will be automatically redirected to http://egroup.jasonmangone.com','SHAREPOINT 2010: USING THE SOURCE PARAMETER IN THE URL','','publish','open','open','','sharepoint-2010-using-the-source-parameter-in-the-url','','','2011-03-22 13:59:38','2011-03-22 18:59:38','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3530',0,'post','',0),(3818,22,'2011-03-24 08:47:32','2011-03-24 13:47:32','After deploying our new Sharepoint 2010 intraweb, the users noticed an immediate problem:  They click to open a document in the document library and only have the option to Save.  Most users want to open the document directly.  There is a setting in the document library, but it was no help.\n\nWe discovered a global setting in central admin.  Go to application management and manage web application.  Highlight your web app (or main sharepoint site) and select general settings, general settings.    In here you will see an option for \"Browser File Handling\". You will  need to set it to permissive to allow the open option to appear.\n\nInformation from this <a href=\"http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/is/sharepoint2010general/thread/3028843a-0558-479e-a678-1d6270f2bb60\">site</a>.','Sharepoint documents do not have open option','','publish','open','open','','sharepoint-documents-do-not-have-open-option','','','2011-03-24 08:47:32','2011-03-24 13:47:32','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3818',0,'post','',0),(3830,4,'2011-03-28 09:22:08','2011-03-28 14:22:08','I ran into this this week – believe it or not, the 3-minute power off was what fixed it (mostly) though I did not fully disconnect it from the power source (which I will do next)\n\nVMware ESXi 4.1 show’s Intel 82576 Gigabit NIC on Cisco UCS C210 M2 as 10Mbps Full - originally seen <a href=\"http://terenceluk.blogspot.com/2011/01/vmware-esxi-41-shows-intel-82576.html\">here</a> - (Thanks!)\n\nIn my case, one nic negotiated 100 Full, the other to 100 Half – then after the firmware update, one went to 10 Full, the other went to 10 Half – then after the power off for 3 minutes, one went to 1000 Full, but the other is at 100 Full.  Both are set to autonegotiate, and yes, I checked the switch port settings too...\n\nNext step is to fully disconnect the power from the power supplies – but since this one is sitting more than 3 hours away I have to gently “fiddle” with the APC PDUs to find which port the power supplies are plugged into so I can administratively “shut it” - keep your fingers crossed...\n\n','VMWARE ESXI 4.1 SHOW’S INTEL 82576 GIGABIT NIC ON CISCO UCS C210 M2 AS 10MBPS FULL','','publish','open','open','','vmware-esxi-4-1-show%e2%80%99s-intel-82576-gigabit-nic-on-cisco-ucs-c210-m2-as-10mbps-full','','','2011-03-28 09:22:08','2011-03-28 14:22:08','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3830',0,'post','',0),(3827,6,'2011-03-28 13:36:31','2011-03-28 18:36:31','Being able to quickly deploy a virtual machine from a template and be able to quickly update your template can greatly ease administration. Here is a quick \"How-To\" on creating a Windows 2008 R2 Template that is fine tuned for performance and a Golden Image in Virtual Center:\n\n<!--more-->\n\n1. In Virtual Center create new VM\n\n2. Custom Config\n\n3. Type in the name of the template: “Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Template”\n\n4. Select the proper datastore\n\n5. Ensure the Guest OS is “Microsoft Windows” and ensure the version is Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)\n\n6. 1 vCPU\n\n7. 4 GB RAM\n\n8. 1 NIC; LAN Network, E1000 adapter, Connect at Power On\n\n9. LSI Logic\n\n10. 50 GB hard drive\n\n11. Finish\n\n12. Go to VM and edit settings\n\n13. Options Tab&gt;General, Uncheck “Enable Logging”\n\n14. Boot Options, Check the box to Force BIOS upon next boot\n\n15. In the BIOS go to the Advanced Tab &gt; I/O Device Configuration and DISABLE the following:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&gt; Serial Port A</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&gt; Serial Port B</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&gt; Parallel Port</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&gt; Save &amp; Exit the BIOS</p>\n16. Go back to VM Edit settings, attach the server 2008 R2 ISO file and install the OS\n\n17. Once installation is complete, set the administrator password at the prompt\n\n18. Disconnect the ISO file (in VM edit settings)\n\n19. Set the time zone\n\n20. Install VMware Tools&gt;Custom Install Type&gt;Disable Shared Folders\n\n21. Once Tools are installed select no on the reboot, and in the systray go to VMware Tools Options&gt;Check the box for Time Synchronization between the VM and ESX server\n\n22. Reboot\n\n23. Login and go to Network Adapter Properties&gt;Power Management Tab&gt;Uncheck “Allow the compute to turn off this device to save power”\n\n24. Go to Server Manager&gt;Turn off IE Enhanced Security Configuration\n\n25. Configure Windows Updates&gt;Download Important Updates but let me choose whether to install them&gt;Uncheck “Allow user to install updates on this computer”\n\n26. Run Windows Update and ensure machine is fully patched, reboot server\n\n27. Go to Server Mananger&gt;Configure Remote Desktop&gt;select “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop”\n\n28. Edit the taskbar\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&gt; Unpin Powershell from taskbar</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&gt; Customize the taskbar to “Always show all icons &amp; notifications to the taskbar”</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&gt; Lock the taskbar</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&gt; Go to Server Manager&gt;Change System Properties&gt;Advanced Tab&gt;Performance Settings&gt;Adjust for Best Performance</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&gt; Next click on Virtual Memory Change button&gt;Uncheck “Automatically manage paging files size for all drives&gt;Select custom size&gt;Enter in “Recommended” settings in both Initial &amp; Maximum boxes (in my case 5758 MB) and click OK&gt;Reboot</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&gt; Go to Folder Options &gt; View Tab &gt; make the following changes:Select “Show hidden files, folder, &amp; drives</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Open IE and go thru wizard, set up homepage to <a href=\"http://www.google.com/\">www.google.com</a></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Go to Computer&gt;Right-Click on C: Drive and uncheck “Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed” &gt; Select Apply changes to C: drive and its subfolders (Ignore messages)</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Completely turn off User Account Control (move slider to lowest setting)</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Go to Power Options&gt;Select “High Performance”</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Disable Hibernate&gt;type in <strong>powercfg.exe –h off</strong> at the command prompt</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Create unattend.txt file in cwindowssystem32sysprep</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Paste in the following code, then change the file to .xml</p>\n\n<pre><strong>&lt;?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”utf-8”?&gt;</strong></pre>\n<pre><strong>&lt;unattend xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend”&gt;</strong></pre>\n<pre><strong>&lt;settings pass=”specialize”&gt;</strong></pre>\n<pre><strong>&lt;component name=”Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup” processorArchitecture=”amd64” publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35” language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”&gt;</strong></pre>\n<pre><strong>&lt;RegisteredOrganization&gt;Your Organization Name&lt;/RegisteredOrganization&gt;</strong></pre>\n<pre><strong>&lt;RegisteredOwner&gt;Your Registered Owner&lt;/RegisteredOwner&gt;</strong></pre>\n<pre><strong>&lt;CopyProfile&gt;true&lt;/CopyProfile&gt;</strong></pre>\n<pre><strong>&lt;/component&gt;</strong></pre>\n<pre><strong>&lt;/settings&gt;</strong></pre>\n<pre><strong>&lt;cpi:offlineImage cpi:source=”wim:f:/sources/install.wim#Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVERSTANDARD” xmlns:cpi=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi” /&gt;</strong></pre>\n<pre><strong>&lt;/unattend&gt;</strong></pre>\n \n\nAnd lastly, \n\n29. Go to the command prompt and type in the following:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>c:windowssystem32sysprepsysprep.exe  /generalize /unattend:unattend.xml</strong></p>\n30. OOBE&gt;Check Generalize&gt;Shutdown\n\n31. In Virtual Center&gt;Clone the powered of VM (convert the clone to a template)','HOW TO: CREATE A SERVER 2008 R2 TEMPLATE AND GOLDEN IMAGE','','publish','open','open','','how-to-create-a-server-2008-r2-template-and-golden-image','','','2011-03-28 13:36:31','2011-03-28 18:36:31','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3827',0,'post','',0),(3872,16,'2011-03-28 14:47:20','2011-03-28 19:47:20','A quick fix but one that required several different methods for resolution. When attempting to access an OWA mailbox hosted on an Exchange 2007 Server the following error is received by the user:\n\n\"A problem occurred while trying to use your mailbox. Please contact technical support for your organization.\"\n\n<strong>Exception</strong>\nException type: <a id=\"itxthook2\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_22817142.html#\">Microsoft</a>.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoragePermanentException\nException message: There was a problem accessing Active Directory.\n\nThe fix was the following:\n<ol>\n	<li>Open Active Directory Users &amp; Computers on a Domain Controller.</li>\n	<li>Enable Advance features from the View Menu.</li>\n	<li>Find the affected user and click Properties.</li>\n	<li>Go to the Security Tab</li>\n	<li>Click the Advanced Button</li>\n	<li>Check the box next to \"Inherit from parent. . . \"</li>\n</ol>\nClick Apply and OK until all windows are closed. The user should now be able to access their OWA mailbox.','EXCHANGE 2007 OWA ISSUE: A PROBLEM OCCURRED WHILE TRYING TO USE YOUR MAILBOX.','','publish','open','open','','exchange-2007-owa-issue-a-problem-occurred-while-trying-to-use-your-mailbox','','','2011-03-28 14:47:20','2011-03-28 19:47:20','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3872',0,'post','',0),(3874,44,'2011-03-29 12:53:34','2011-03-29 17:53:34','﻿<img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://www.intel.com/technology/pix/lightpeak-cables.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" />One of the big selling points of the recently released new line of Macbook Pros, is this mysterious port known as Thunderbolt.\n\nThe question is, what is Thunderbolt, and what does it mean for end users.\n\nThunderbolt was designed by Intel to be a lightning fast way to transfer data from a laptop to a peripheral.  Originally developed under the code name Light Peak, Thunderbolt, is a dual-protocol technology that fields the use of both PCIe and DisplayPort.\n\nBelow is the list of features from Intel’s <a href=\"http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">website</a>:\n\n<!--more-->\n\n- Dual-chennel 10Gpbs per port\n- Bi-directional\n- Dual-protocol (PCIe and DisplayPort)\n- Compatible with existing DisplayPort devices\n- Daisy-chained devices\n- Electrical or optical cables\n- Low latency with highly accurate time synch\n- Uses native protocol software drivers\n- Power over cable for bus-powered devices\n<ul></ul>\nTo achieve the high speeds, Thunderbolt transmits and receives simultaneously, so that it can make use of the full bandwidth for the connection.  This allows transmission of large files in a fraction of time as compared to previous peripheral connections.  Intel states that backups of a years worth of continuous MP3 playback in just over 10 minutes.  That’s huge!\n\nSo, what does this mean for end users?  Basically, it means all the benefits that you normally would get from a desktop versus a laptop fly out the window.  Need expanded storage?  No problem, slap on an external drive array and see practically no hit to performance.  Been wishing for a docking station for your Mac?  Here it is, with daisy-chaining, connect all the devices you need to one port on your latop.\n\nIt is yet to be seen if Thunderbolt will become as widely adopted as Intel hopes, but with data streams getting larger and USB being more and more behind the 8-ball, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a nice shift to Thunderbolt Technology.','Thunderbolt Technology','','publish','open','open','','thunderbolt-technology','','','2011-03-29 12:53:34','2011-03-29 17:53:34','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3874',0,'post','',0),(3881,24,'2011-03-29 19:53:10','2011-03-30 00:53:10','If you remotely manage your router it is recommended that you use SSH instead of Telnet. Telnet passwords are sent in cleartext so if someone with malicious intent wanted to get access to your router, it would only be a matter of time. Here are a set of instructions to enable SSH using local logon and not an aaa server.\n\n<strong>Enter the following commands from global configuration mode:</strong>\n<strong>Configure your router with a hostname\n</strong>Router(config)#hostname RouterA\n\n<strong>Configure a domain name for your router\n</strong>RouterA(config)#ip domain-name EXAMPLE.COM\n\n<strong>Generate RSA keys on your router\n</strong>RouterA(config)#crypto key generate rsa\n<em>It is recommended that you generate at least a 1024bit key</em>\n\n<strong>Tell the router to use SSH version 2\n</strong>RouterA(config)#ip ssh version 2\n\n<strong>Setup a username and password\n</strong>RouterA(config)#username USERNAME password PASSWORD\n\n<strong>Set lines VTY 0 4 to use SSH\n</strong>RouterA(config)#line vty 0 4\nRouterA(config)#transport input ssh\nRouterA(config)#login local\n\n<strong>Save your configuration\n</strong>RouterA(config)#exit\nRouterA#copy run start','Configure SSH on a Cisco Switch or Router.','','publish','open','open','','configure-ssh-on-a-cisco-switch-or-router','','','2011-03-29 19:53:10','2011-03-30 00:53:10','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3881',0,'post','',0),(3885,24,'2011-03-29 19:55:04','2011-03-30 00:55:04','It was announced today that Cisco has acquired NewScale in order to expand its line of software used for cloud services.  NewScales products are used by enterprises for provisioning of IT resources across virtualized, physical, and cloud based environments in an efficient manner. \n\nAs Cisco puts it “We are shifting from producing all IT services consumed within our \"small-farm\" data centers to consuming IT services produced in the cloud by service orchestrators. This change is becoming increasingly evident.”\n\nAs a growing number of organizations are beginning to implement private or internal clouds. Others are experimenting with hybrid clouds, to provide self-service access to a shared pool of in-house virtual resources as well as services from external cloud providers.\n\nNo matter what type of cloud your company uses, NewScale product, Service Catalog, is an essential ingredient of cloud computing. In order for the organization to reap the full benefits of cloud computing, users must be able to easily request the cloud computing services they need and IT must be able to respond quickly to those requests. NewScales catalog empowers users to serve themselves by choosing from a menu of standard cloud service offerings.\n\nThis is just another step forward in the inevitable switch to the cloud for IT services.','Cisco is acquiring NewScale.','','publish','open','open','','cisco-is-acquiring-newscale','','','2011-03-29 19:55:04','2011-03-30 00:55:04','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3885',0,'post','',0),(3887,11,'2011-03-31 20:14:30','2011-04-01 01:14:30','Cloud Meets Big Data at EMC World in Las Vegas May 9-12, 2011. EMC World has become the premier forum to immerse yourself in this new world. From advanced technical training to meet ups with some of the industry\'s most influential thought leaders, EMC World is where it\'s happening.\n\nConference topics include:\n2011 Conference Topics\nBackup, Recovery and Archiving\nBig Data\nBusiness Continuity and Disaster Recovery\nCloud Computing\nEnterprise Applications\nFederation\nMainframe Platforms\nMomentum/Information Intelligence\nPartner Solutions\nSecurity and Compliance\nStorage and IT Management\nTechnology Directions and Innovation\nTiered Storage and Automation\nVirtualization\n\nLearn directly from EMC engineers, customers, and partners at 500+ breakout sessions. EMC World\'s comprehensive agenda includes keynotes, lectures, live demonstrations, hands-on workshops, and birds-of-a-feather sessions.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nChallenge your expertise with offerings including tutorials, business tracks, technical training, and developer sessions ranging from novice to expert.\n\nExplore integrated solutions with exhibitors in the Solutions Pavilion.\n\nConnect with thousands of your peers at a variety of networking events.\n\nLearn more and register here:<a href=\"http://www.emcworld.com/overview.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> http://www.emcworld.com/overview.htm</a>','EMC WORLD 2011 TO TAKE LAS VEGAS BY STORM','','publish','open','open','','emc-world-2011-to-take-las-vegas-by-storm','','','2011-03-31 20:14:30','2011-04-01 01:14:30','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3887',0,'post','',0),(3889,11,'2011-03-31 21:20:55','2011-04-01 02:20:55','VMware’s Volume Purchasing program (VPP) is an end customer purchasing program that lets you achieve significant cost savings on eligible VMware software purchases. Qualifying orders placed with VMware using your VPP membership number accumulate points. As the accumulated points total increases, so does your potential savings. With the new VPP, your organization can also extend VPP membership benefits to its authorized affiliates. Member and affiliate purchases contribute toward the overall discount level, offering maximum savings.\n\n•Receive financial incentives when you purchase VMware products in volume with VPP discounts on eligible license products\n•Achieve budget predictability since discounts are guaranteed for up to 2 years\n•Simplify your acquisition of VMware software through a standardized purchasing program\n\n<!--more-->\n\nEnd customers may use their VPP membership number to purchase VMware products at a discounted price off VMware\'s then current local MSRP prices. However, discounts under VMware VPP are passed down to end customers only through VMware authorized channel partners. VMware does not set final prices, actual discounts, or payment terms for licenses acquired through such channel partners. Final prices and payment terms are determined by agreement between the customer and their channel partner.\n\n<a name=\"c197939\"></a>\n\n<img src=\"http://www.vmware.com/files_inline/images/vpp_discount_chart_01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"215\" />\n\n <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/landing_pages/vpp/benefits.html\">http://www.vmware.com/landing_pages/vpp/benefits.html</a>','VMWARE VPP PURCHASING PROGRAM HELPS CUSTOMERS SAVE BIG!','','publish','open','open','','vmware-vpp-purchasing-program-helps-customers-save-big','','','2011-03-31 21:20:55','2011-04-01 02:20:55','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3889',0,'post','',0),(3902,13,'2011-03-31 23:11:39','2011-04-01 04:11:39','From now until 9/15/2011, purchase any VMware vSphere Essentials or Essentials Plus bundle and receive an Education Token valid for a free online training course on vSphere Fundamentals for SMB.   This is a great opportunity for new customers to VMware who wants to become more knowledgeable and confident with using vSphere in their environment.\n\n<strong>VMware vSphere Essentials Bundle </strong>includes server virtualization for 3 host servers with up to two processors per server with a max of 6 cores per CPU.  Also includes a vCenter agent, 4-way vSMP, vStorage Thin Provisioning and vCenter Update Manager.\n\n<strong>VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Bundle </strong>includes all of the Essentials features listed above plus VMware High Avalability and VMware Data Recover and vMotion.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nSome key benefits include:\n<ul>\n	<li>- Reduce IT Hardware and operating cost</li>\n	<li>- Simplify management and boost IT staff productivity</li>\n	<li>- Ensure business continuity and achieve always-on IT</li>\n	<li>- Improve service levels and application quality</li>\n	<li>- Strengthen security and data protection</li>\n</ul>\nThe vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus bundles provide an all inclusive, low-priced entry point to core VMware virtualization functionality for new customers with small environments and with this great promotion for free training you will be able to manage your Vmware vSphere environment in no time!\n\nFor more details please send an email to <a href=\"mailto:info@eGroup-us.com\">info@eGroup-us.com</a> or call (843) 284 - 0146.','GET FREE TRAINING WITH A PURCHASE OF ANY VMWARE VSPHERE ESSENTIALS BUNDLE','','publish','open','open','','get-free-training-with-a-purchase-of-any-vmware-vsphere-essentials-bundle','','','2011-03-31 23:11:39','2011-04-01 04:11:39','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3902',0,'post','',0),(3923,44,'2011-04-05 14:53:31','2011-04-05 19:53:31','Quick note here -\n\nIf you are installing Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 and are in an environment where your local domain is different that your public domain, you might run into an issue getting your Outlook Clients to connect when they are not on the network.\n\nThere is a quick and easy fix to this, though.  Open a powershell session and enter the following commands:\n\nGet-ExchangeCertificate\n\nThis will give you the information on the certificates that are being used.  Find the one that is being used for the public connections and copy the thumbprint number.\n\nThen type the following:\n\nEnable-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -Services \"SMTP\"\n\n(where the XX\'s are the number copied from the previous command)\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Th</span>is enables the RPC services to use the certificate when connecting outside of the local network.','Outlook Anywhere - Different Local and Public Domains','','publish','open','open','','outlook-anywhere-different-local-and-public-domains','','','2011-04-05 14:53:31','2011-04-05 19:53:31','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3923',0,'post','',0),(3941,8,'2011-04-06 21:54:28','2011-04-07 02:54:28','Ran into a generic issue while working with a customer recently.  The issue was that whenever they launched an application from within the network using the PNAgent or Citrix Online Plugin Full version as they call it now, they would get an error that Citrix was \"Unable to launch your application. Contact your help desk with the following information.\".\n\nThis error can be very generic and can point to many things.\n\nFirst step if there is a CSG server that resides in the DMZ in place and communicates to the inside network Web Interface/Citrix Server is to install the agent on the CSG server in the DMZ and test.  If it works there you can be sure that all the necessary ports for XML and Session reliability are open and good to go.\n\nIn this instance it turned out that the automatic use of Internet Explorer\'s proxy settings was the issue.  We needed to bypass the proxy for the server in the DMZ from inside the network but needed to leave the settings in Internet Explorer.\n\nThe answer is a simple registry change that allows you to change the default proxy behavior of the Citrix Online Plugin.\n\nFind the key(s)\n\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARECitrixICA ClientEngineLockdown ProfilesAll RegionsLockdownNetworkProxy   \n\nHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareCitrixICA ClientEngineLockdown ProfilesAll RegionsLockdownNetworkProxy  \n\nUpdate the value of the ProxyType from \"Auto\" or BLANK to the word \"None\".  This will bypass the proxy for the Citrix Client only.\n\nGood Luck!\n ','CITRIX error. \"Unable to launch your application. Contact your help desk with the following information.\"','','publish','open','open','','citrix-error-unable-to-launch-your-application-contact-your-help-desk-with-the-following-information','','','2011-04-06 21:54:28','2011-04-07 02:54:28','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3941',0,'post','',0),(3945,2,'2011-04-07 08:42:33','2011-04-07 13:42:33','The Carolina Regional Summit is coming up May 5th, and eGroup is a Platinum Sponsor and has been hand-picked to deliver labs at this event. Mark your calendar!\n\n<strong>Carolina Regional Summit, Charlotte, NC\nThursday, May 5th, 2011\nCharlotte Convention Center\n7:30 a.m.—4:30 p.m.</strong>\n\nCLICK <a href=\"http://info.vmware.com/content/VMUG_Conference_Agenda?ug=ch&amp;src=ws&amp;elq\">HERE</a> TO REGISTER.  (More details and an updated agenda to come, so check the site often!)','SAVE THE DATE: CAROLINA REGIONAL SUMMIT MAY 5 ','','publish','open','open','','save-the-date-carolina-regional-summit-may-5','','','2011-04-07 08:42:33','2011-04-07 13:42:33','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3945',0,'post','',0),(3917,23,'2011-04-07 09:04:51','2011-04-07 14:04:51','You would think that SharePoint would have a simple Database Server type setting that you could change at anytime, but it doesn\'t work like that.  As unfortunate as this is, there is a fairly simple way of moving all of your databases to a different server or instance using a SQL Client Alias.\n\nThe SQL Client Alias basically just tells the SQL Connection String to go somewhere else.  For instance, if I have a connection string pointing to \"SQLServer01SP\" and I setup a SQL Client Alias to point to \"SQLServer02SP\", then all SQL traffic from that server will be re-directed if it specifies \"SQLServer01SP\" in the connection string.\n\nThis allows us to keep SharePoint thinking that it\'s going to one SQL Server, when in fact it is going to another SQL Server entirely.  However, there is a catch for SharePoint 2007.  You will need to backup and restore any SSPs (2007 only) that you have configured.\n\nHere are the steps I took...\n\n1.	Backup all DBs on the old SQL server\n2.	Backup all SSPs in Central Admin\n3.	Delete all SSPs in Central Admin\n4.	Stop all SharePoint services in the SharePoint Farm and stop IIS.\n5.	Restore all DBs to the new SQL server\n6.	Setup a SQL Client Alias on all WFEs in the SharePoint farm to point the ServerInstance of the old SQL Server to the new SQL server.\n7.	Start IIS, then start all SharePoint services in the SharePoint Farm.\n8.	Restore the SSPs using the New Configuration option\n\n<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725.aspx\">Move all databases (SharePoint Server 2010)</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725(office.12).aspx\">Move all databases (Office SharePoint Server 2007)</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1620\">How to setup and use a SQL Server alias</a>\n\nDelete an SSP using STSADM\nstsadm -o deletessp -title  -deletedatabases -force\n\nDelete the SSP content DB\nstsadm -o -deletecontentdb -url  -databasename\n\nWhere URL is the URL of the Web application from which the content database will be detached and database name is the name of the content database to be detached.','SHAREPOINT: HOW TO MOVE DATABASES TO A DIFFERENT SQL SERVER OR INSTANCE','','publish','open','open','','sharepoint-how-to-move-databases-to-a-different-sql-server-or-instance','','','2011-04-07 09:04:51','2011-04-07 14:04:51','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3917',0,'post','',0),(3965,22,'2011-04-08 08:32:02','2011-04-08 13:32:02','We have vmware view users that work split shifts like 7:30AM-Noon then back at 4PM until 9PM.   Every night those users who had been connected since the morning were getting disconnected at random times between 6-8PM.  I finally tracked down a setting in the administrator settings of the View server that set session timeouts to 600 minutes.\n\nThis can be located by going to View Configuration&gt;Global Settings  and clicking the Edit button. Adjust the Session Timeout variable to  your environment.  You might change this to something like 999999 to  prevent this from becoming much of an issue.  I chose 1000 minutes.  Here\'s a screenshot of the config:\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Session-Expires1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3967\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Session-Expires1-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" /></a>','VIEW SESSIONS DISCONNECTING','','publish','open','open','','view-sessions-disconnecting','','','2011-04-08 08:32:02','2011-04-08 13:32:02','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3965',0,'post','',0),(3948,23,'2011-04-11 11:45:08','2011-04-11 16:45:08','I recently ran into an issue where I installed Crystal Reports XI and it would not run.  After executing the shortcut, a command prompt window would appear briefly, display some text, then disappear before I could read anything on it.\n\nThe solution ended up being that I needed to add the crw32.exe program to the Data Execution Prevention (DEP) exception list.  Here\'s how to do it...\n\n1. Right-click on My Computer &gt; Advanced Tab &gt; Performance Settings &gt; Data Execution Prevention tab &gt; Add...\n2. Browse to C:Program FilesBusiness ObjectsCrystal Reports 11\n3. Add the crw32.exe file\n\nNow you can run Crystal Reports XI!','CRYSTAL REPORTS WILL NOT START','','publish','open','open','','crystal-reports-will-not-start','','','2011-04-11 11:45:08','2011-04-11 16:45:08','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3948',0,'post','',2),(3977,4,'2011-04-12 07:56:13','2011-04-12 12:56:13','Came across this the other day - Ericom is providing a free Beta of its HTML5 Client for VMware View.  \n\nHTML5 technology represents a new frontier in interactive browser-based applications and user experience. It\'s the first VDI solution to provide native support for Chrome, safari and other browsers using WebSockets and http protocols.\n\nLeveraging this innovative technology and integrated RDP compression and acceleration technology, Ericom\'s high performance HTML5 client enables enterprises to provide users seamless access to VMware View virtual desktops – running wholly within the browser - from any HTML5-compatible web browser, such as Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.\n\nAlthough RDP-based, this technology is very interesting and key to a device-agnostic application delivery services model.  Sign up for the <a href=\"http://www.ericom.com/pdl.asp?pproduct=28&sp=21\">beta</a> if you get a moment and let us know of your results -\n\nBeing able to deliver applications and information seamlessly to any device is a huge organizational need - which shifts the \"Why can\'t I run these apps on my devices\" conversation from an accusational criticism of the IT Group to a dialog about the pure usability of the device itself.\n\nEnjoy -','HTML5 Client for VMware View – Beta','','publish','open','open','','html5-client-for-vmware-view-%e2%80%93-beta','','','2011-04-12 07:56:13','2011-04-12 12:56:13','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3977',0,'post','',0),(3969,12,'2011-04-14 07:19:39','2011-04-14 12:19:39','After waiting anxiously for these new boxes to ship, I was finally able to place my hands and install a pair of VNXe 3100s for a great customer in the Carolinas (-- and thank you guys for being the great customer you are!).\n\nThe initial set up was a breeze. We wired it up according to the diagrams provided, connected it to the network, and ran the Connection Utility to set some of the basics and network information. From there, we hopped right in to Unisphere--\n\n<!--more-->\n\nThis array runs a slightly different version/implementation of Unisphere-- but it\'s beautiful. It has this hard to describe \"quality feel\" to it-- where all the screens transition smoothly, the options are clearly presented and accessible, and the \"wizard driven\" common tasks are put front and center. I did not install any Unisphere client/server options locally-- and don\'t even know if that\'s an option with the VNXes as it is with the big brother VNXs (<a href=\"http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h8017-unisphere-element-manager.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h8017-unisphere-element-manager.pdf</a>)\n\nEMC is on the mark with their \"simple and efficient\" product messaging/marketing. In some cases I found the VNXe 3100 to be TOO simple-- where some of the inner workings weren\'t easily visible, and for someone like me that was hard to accept. For example, when you want to aggregate the network connections, there is only a check box that literally says \"Aggregate interface\". Well heck, how does THAT work? These are the kinds of things that I, for whatever reason, always want to know the under-workings of. So after digging through some of the Help Files I found that it requires LACP-- (channel-group # mode active for you Cisco folks) to function.\n\nIn keeping with the simple message, I found that most of the error messages we saw were super-generic, and made troubleshooting a bit interesting. \"Error Code: 0x4. Please refer to the support page\" is the type of message we saw from time to time when trying to configure and test out some features.\n\nA lot of the \"Celerra/VNX\" features or configuration option names have been changed in what I expect is an effort to keep things simple for the intended audience-- for example, what most know as a CIFS server is called a \"Shared Folder Server\" within this version of Unisphere. There were also no mentions of File Systems, but when you create a \"Shared Folder\", under the covers it\'s carving up a file system-- with a 16TB size limit. And once that\'s completed, you can add \"Shares\" on top of the file system like you normally would.\n\nCIFS services worked like a charm, as to be expected-- and Replication was a snap to configure. We did find, however, that it\'s best to let the Source array handle the replication Destination file system, but selecting the SOURCE file system, or \"Shared Folder\", and going to the replication tab, and selecting \"Create Remote Replication Session\". From here a wizard gets spawned, and if it does not detect an adequate file system on the remote end to replicate to, it allows you to create one and launches a Unisphere session on the remote array. After all that was done, replication kicked off. You can change the RPO for replication with a simple slider that goes from 5 minutes to 24 hours, depending on your requirements. Pretty neat and very simple.\n\nWhat was the coolest thing to me that we were able to test out was the NFS implementation/presentation to ESX(i) hosts. The entire process is wizard driven and, again, simple and straight forward. You set the information for your vCenter server, and it finds all of the hosts registered and running under that vCenter instance.  After you provision the storage, it goes out to all the hosts you select and mounts the export for you. And yes, this works with direct-to-host installs too, where vCenter is not running. I\'m not sure that words really do it justice. Below is a video showing the VMware integration-- and while you don\'t see it in this video, if you have vCenter up while you\'re provisioning the storage on the VNXe, you see the tasks it kicks off on the VMware side.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFrnomC1hKY\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFrnomC1hKY</a> \n\nIn the end, I was quite happy with the overall experience. Knowing EMC\'s target audience for the VNXe, this platform is on target and having some knowledge of the deeper bits behind the platform, it\'s hard not to be impressed with what EMC has done here. For a deeper look at the innovation in this platform, check out Chad Sakac\'s blog post <a href=\"http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/01/vnxe-incredible-things-in-tiny-transformer-like-packages.html\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> -- and be prepared to read for a while :)\n\nIf I can get my hands on another one I\'ll be sure to record some videos-- but until then, I\'ll be working on a way to win one for the home lab.','EMC VNXe 3100 - THOUGHTS FROM THE FIELD','','publish','open','open','','emc-vnxe-3100-thoughts-from-the-field','','','2011-04-14 07:19:39','2011-04-14 12:19:39','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=3969',0,'post','',1),(4001,15,'2011-04-15 12:30:35','2011-04-15 17:30:35','VMware just introduced <strong>Cloud Foundry</strong> which represents a new generation of an application platform, architected specifically for cloud computing environments and delivered as a service from enterprise datacenters and public cloud service providers. VMware is first in the industry to deliver an Open Platform as a Service (PaaS).\n\n<strong>What is Cloud Foundry?</strong>  Cloud Foundry is a modern application platform built specifically to simplify the development, deployment and operation of cloud era applications. With Cloud Foundry, VMware offers choice of clouds, frameworks and application services for developers to build upon.\n\n<strong>How does Cloud Foundry fit into VMware\'s Application Platform Strategy?</strong>  Cloud Foundry extends VMware’s commitment to Open PaaS, delivering choice of the broadest set of development frameworks and languages, heterogeneous application services and cloud deployment environments.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/041211-vmwares-cloud-foundry-opens.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_cloud_security_2011-04-14\"> Read More </a>\n\n','VMWARE\'S CLOUD FOUNDRY OPENS PAAS','','publish','open','open','','vmwares-cloud-foundry-opens-paas','','','2011-04-15 12:30:35','2011-04-15 17:30:35','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4001',0,'post','',0),(4009,12,'2011-04-19 08:28:18','2011-04-19 13:28:18','One of the changes in the VNX platform from the previous generation EMC storage arrays is that the Failover Mode 4 is supposed to be the new default. And I say \"supposed to be\" because during the beta program, I did not find that this was the case. The ESXi hosts we connected in to the array all used the previously default Failover Mode of 1 (Active/Passive mode). But now I think I know why. There has been a little bit of forums/message board discussions on this and the popular thought is that \"everything defaults to Failover Mode 4 now\"-- but I\'ve found that is not true-- kind of.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nToday I was able to test this out on a GA array running GA code against two ESXi 4.1 hosts. What I found is that the \"default\" Failover Mode 4 only applies when you\'re registering new hosts/initiators, but vSphere hosts register themselves to EMC arrays-- and they DO NOT register themselves with Failover Mode 4. So just because it\'s the \"default Failover Mode\" don\'t forget to check and set this appropriately-- and it does require a host reboot once changed.\n\nNot sure what change needs to be made to the agent/mechanism used for this registration process, but it sounds easy enough and hopefully we\'ll see that change in a coming update or release. Anyways-- to \"resolve\" I followed the normal procedure for making the change to Failover Mode 4. From within Unisphere, I went to the Hosts tab, and on the right selected \"Connectivity Status\". I edited the ESXi host listed and set it to Failover Mode 4, hit OK, went back to vCenter and rebooted the host (making sure all the VMs were off and it was in maintenance mode of course).\n\nI also logged in to each host via SSH and set the Path Selection Policy for the \"VMW_SATP_ALUA_CX\" SATP to Round Robin (which is VMW_PSP_RR). After the reboot I checked the Properties of a VMFS datastore on the VNX, and verified that it showed up with the ALUA_CX SATP and the RR PSP as shown:\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ALUA-ENABLED.jpg\"></a><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ALUA-ENABLED1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4015\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ALUA-ENABLED1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"729\" height=\"237\" /></a></p>','vSphere ESXi 4.1 + EMC VNX - ALUA - NOT THE DEFAULT!','','publish','open','open','','vsphere-esxi-4-1-emc-vnx-alua-not-the-default','','','2011-04-19 08:28:18','2011-04-19 13:28:18','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4009',0,'post','',1),(4023,12,'2011-04-20 08:47:23','2011-04-20 13:47:23','When creating a RAID Group and manually selecting the desired drives, all 4 of the vault drives are available to be chosen for use. However, when creating a Storage Pool, you can NOT select vault drives to be included in the Pool-- and the Automatic Drive Selection from what I\'ve seen has never chosen any of those drives either. In my opinion this is a good thing-- but regardless I felt it was something worth pointing out. This is something I noticed while onsite with a customer (thank you!) -- and for those who may be in a pinch for storage, it\'s probably good info to have.','EMC VNX - ANOTHER DIFFERENCE WITH STORAGE POOLS','','publish','open','open','','emc-vnx-another-difference-with-storage-pools','','','2011-04-20 08:47:23','2011-04-20 13:47:23','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4023',0,'post','',1),(4025,44,'2011-04-21 10:12:00','2011-04-21 15:12:00','I\'m generally not an early adopter of Windows service packs on the laptop I use for work, but I\'d been running Windows 7 SP1 on my home PC for a while without issues and decided it was time to take the plunge on my eGroup laptop. The service pack installation went flawlessly and everything seemed to run great after the reboot.\n\nIt was a week or two later that I discovered a problem with VMware Workstation being unable to obtain the RAM needed to run a W2K3 VM that had always run perfectly before.  In researching the issue I learned that W7 SP1 changes the way the OS allocates memory, causing VMware Workstation to fail. The issue is documented in the VMware KB article found <a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1036185\">here</a>.\n\nI didn\'t like any of the fixes described in the article at the time, but my problem was resolved when VMware released Workstation 7.1.4 a few weeks later.  Installing the new version resolved the issue for me and I was back in business.  The KB has since been updated with this information.','WINDOWS 7 SP1 BREAKS VMWARE WORKSTATION','','publish','open','open','','windows-7-sp1-breaks-vmware-workstation','','','2011-04-21 10:12:00','2011-04-21 15:12:00','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4025',0,'post','',0),(4035,8,'2011-04-25 08:37:30','2011-04-25 13:37:30','When working with BES 2010 Express I ran into an issue where the test utility for Exchange 2010 connection would fail on the \"No Send as Permission for account operator\" regardless of any changes I made to Exchange or the environment.\n\nTurns out, this error is a false positive and can sometimes be impossible to get rid of. Here are the things you need to check, and if all is working well (testing the blackberry) then you are free to move on.\n<ol>\n	<li> Open Active Directory Users &amp; Computers</li>\n	<li>Enable Advanced Features in AD (View, Advanced Features)</li>\n	<li>Double-click (open) your BESAdmin user</li>\n	<li>Security tab</li>\n	<li>Add the BESAdmin user to the Security tab giving Send As, Receive As – this is in addition to the defaults that were in there.</li>\n</ol>\nYou can also perform this step for individual users to verify the Send As right has been properly assigned.','Blackberry Enterprise Server 2010 Express: BES No Send as Permission for account operator','','publish','open','open','','blackberry-enterprise-server-2010-express-bes-no-send-as-permission-for-account-operator','','','2011-04-25 08:37:30','2011-04-25 13:37:30','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4035',0,'post','',0),(4037,8,'2011-04-25 08:53:55','2011-04-25 13:53:55','You also see \"Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionMailboxQuarantined\" in the Exchange Management Console when trying to local migrate a mailbox to another store\n\nFirst off, do a restart of the Exchange Information Store Service.  Might save you some time. \n\nIf that doesn\'t do it, try this:\n\n1) Open Exchange Management Shell\n\n2) Run get-mailbox -identity &lt;user name&gt; |fl\n\n3) Once you have the mailbox guid, open regedit.\n\n4) Navigate to <em>HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesMSexchangeISServernamePrivate-dbguidQuarantined Mailboxes {Mailbox guid}.</em>\n\n5)<em> </em>Remove the guid from the quarantine by deleting it.\n\n6) Restart the Exchange Information Store Service and try again.','User cannot access OWA or Outlook: Unable to open your default email folders','','publish','open','open','','user-cannot-access-owa-or-outlook-unable-to-open-your-default-email-folders','','','2011-04-25 08:53:55','2011-04-25 13:53:55','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4037',0,'post','',0),(4106,2,'2011-04-26 08:28:29','2011-04-26 13:28:29','<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ZUMBA-Awards-042511-032.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4169\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ZUMBA-Awards-042511-032-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>eGroup sponsored and presented the Grand Prize (an iPad) at Force Protection Industries\' \"Beat the Bulge\" awards ceremony that took place on-site at FPI on Monday, April 25th.\n\n“Beat the Bulge” is not just a weight loss contest, but a lifestyle change initiative developed by FPI that encourages employees who wish to participate to name their bulge - be it high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, stress or simply just being overweight - and to overcome it through exercise, nutrition and behavior modification.  The contest ran from January-April 2011.\n\nResources made available to participants during the contest included access to certified professionals, a fitness boot camp, a complimentary gym membership, weight loss programs, lunch and learns, and other on-site activities.\n\nThere was a team component of the initiative to help foster comraderie and peer support, and prizes went to both the \"Beat the Bulge\" team champions as well as the individual champion.  No more than 50% of  team members could be on the weight loss program for the contest, at least 50% had to participate in the physical activity or biometric improvement programs.  Points were earned in a variety of ways including weight loss points, exercise points, bonus points (submission of reports) and penalty points (drop out, failure to weigh in, etc.) \n\nThe program\'s mission to \"promote physical activity and safe weight loss through proper nutrition and exercise, to encourage peer support in the work place, an to provide an activity that is healthy, educational and fun\" was wildly successful and well received by employees.  As a result, FPI plans to run additional \"Beat the Bulge\" contests an ongoing basis throughout the year.','eGROUP SPONSORS GRAND PRIZE FOR FORCE PROTECTION\'S \"Beat the Bulge\" CONTEST','','publish','open','open','','egroup-sponsors-grand-prize-for-force-protections-beat-the-bulge-contest','','','2011-04-26 08:28:29','2011-04-26 13:28:29','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4106',0,'post','',0),(4040,6,'2011-04-26 12:06:28','2011-04-26 17:06:28','If you are in vSphere and click on Performance, you may end up running across this error:\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/vSpherePerfCharterror.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4041\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/vSpherePerfCharterror.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"242\" /></a>\n\nAfter researching the issue I found a couple <a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;externalId=1012812&amp;sliceId=1&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;dialogID=177569283&amp;stateId=0%200%20177567549\">VMware KB Articles </a>on the subject, but no conclusive fix to the issue that resolved the issue. After digging in I found that troubleshooting futher proved better results. Here\'s the fix:\n\n1. In my case the DB resides on a Server 2008 R2 box, so ensure you have the SQL 2008 Native Client Driver in place for your ODBC connection\n\n2. Review the stats.log in the following location: C:ProgramDataVMwareVirtualCenter &amp; look for anything that might catch your eye (failures, etc)\n\n3. Ensure the following services are set to an active domain account (not a local system account):\n\n* <strong>VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices</strong>\n\n* <strong>VMware VirtualCenter Server</strong>\n\nStart those services with the proper network account, then log back into Virtual Center. You should not see the \"Performance\" tab Overview page displaying correctly.','VMWARE ERROR: PERF CHARTS SERVICE EXPERIENCED AN INTERNAL ERROR','','publish','open','open','','vmware-error-perf-charts-service-experienced-an-internal-error','','','2011-04-26 12:06:28','2011-04-26 17:06:28','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4040',0,'post','',0),(4108,2,'2011-05-02 09:18:17','2011-05-02 14:18:17','eGroup recently donated in support of the Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of the Trident Area\'s 2011 \"Push-Up Lowcountry Kids\" 4th Annual Push-Up Competition.  This investment will enable the Boys and Girls Clubs staff members to provide children with a safe and encouraging environment that focuses on improving Club Members\' academic success, good character, citizenry, and lifestyle habits.  It will help deliver exciting and educational programs to hundreds od boys and girls, and help the Club to achieve its mission to enable all young people, especially those who need it the most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. \n\nOn April 30th Dean Stephens, of Channel 4, led teams of 6  formed from local gyms, businesses, restaurants, and sports teams. Each team was responsible for raising $5,000 throughout the time leading up to the event. One the day of the event, all of the teams met in Marion Square to see which team could do the most push-ups. Teams were awarded based on who raises the most money, and who did the most push-ups.\n\nRead more about Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of America <a href=\"http://www.bgca.org/Pages/index.aspx\">here</a>.','eGROUP SUPPORTS BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS \"Push-Up Lowcounty Kids\" INITIATIVE ','','publish','open','open','','egroup-supports-boys-girls-clubs-push-up-lowcounty-kids-initiative','','','2011-05-02 09:18:17','2011-05-02 14:18:17','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4108',0,'post','',0),(4058,23,'2011-05-02 11:54:30','2011-05-02 16:54:30','If you use Google Docs and have an Android based phone, then you will be happy to know that Google Docs app is now available.  Follow the link below to learn more...\n\n<a title=\"http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-new-google-docs-app-for.html\" href=\"http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-new-google-docs-app-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-new-google-docs-app-for.html</a>','GOOGLE DOCS FOR ANDROID NOW AVAILABLE','','publish','open','open','','google-docs-for-android-now-available','','','2011-05-02 11:54:30','2011-05-02 16:54:30','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4058',0,'post','',0),(4065,2,'2011-05-03 12:55:08','2011-05-03 17:55:08','<strong><a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/eGroup-Ultimate-Challenge.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4066\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/eGroup-Ultimate-Challenge-300x87.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"87\" /></a></strong>\n\n<strong>1</strong> Go to <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/eGroupInc\">www.facebook.com/eGroupInc</a>, “like” the eGroup page, and then click on the “Fan Contest” link in the navigation on the left side of the page. (Link won’t be accessible until you “like” the page.)\n\n<strong>2</strong> Work your way through the “Ultimate Challenge Checklist”, documenting each completed challenge with a photo. (See Facebook contest page for details and official rules.)\n\n<strong>3</strong> When you complete the entire checklist send an e-mail with “Challenge Complete” in the subject line to <a href=\"mailto:Elizabeth.Wilmes@eGroup-us.com\">Elizabeth.Wilmes@eGroup-us.com</a>.\n\n<strong>4</strong> The first person to successfully complete the eGroup Ultimate Challenge will win an iPad 2!','COMPLETE THE “eGROUP ULTIMATE CHALLENGE” TO WIN AN iPAD 2!','','publish','open','open','','complete-the-%e2%80%9cegroup-ultimate-challenge%e2%80%9d-to-win-an-ipad-2','','','2011-05-03 12:55:08','2011-05-03 17:55:08','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4065',0,'post','',0),(4070,16,'2011-05-09 20:51:44','2011-05-10 01:51:44','I ran across an interesting error today when installing View 4.5 Connection Server on Windows 2008 R2. During the initial install the following error was thrown:\n\n\"Error 1720. A script required for this install to complete could not be  run. Custom action VM_AdamLoadVdiSchemaPreReqs script error -2147024894  , : Line 16, Column 1.\"\n\nThe following update from Microsoft fixed this error:\n\n<a title=\"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821\" href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821\">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821</a>','ADAM SCHEMA PRE-REQUISITES SCRIPT ERROR - VIEW 4.5 - WINDOWS 2008 R2','','publish','open','open','','adam-schema-pre-requisites-script-error-view-4-5-windows-2008-r2','','','2011-05-09 20:51:44','2011-05-10 01:51:44','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4070',0,'post','',0),(4073,23,'2011-05-10 08:45:11','2011-05-10 13:45:11','If you are setting up a new SQL Cluster or any application/service that requires the DTC cluster service, and you get the following error...\n\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\"object already exists in Active Directory\"</span>\n\n<br>\n\n...then you either need to choose a new name for the DTC cluster service, or you can give the cluster computer name object in AD Full Control over the DTC cluster computer object.\n\nFor example, if you have the following setup...\n\nCluster01 - Node\nCluster02 - Node\nCluster00 - Cluster Name\nCluster00DTC - DTC Cluster Name\n\nFind the Cluster00DTC computer object in AD and view it\'s properties.  Go to the \'Security\' tab and add the \'Cluster00\' computer object and give it Full Control.  Run the DTC Cluster configuration again and it should work now.','SQL CLUSTER SETUP: DTC OBJECT ALREADY EXISTS IN AD','','publish','open','open','','sql-cluster-setup-dtc-object-already-exists-in-ad','','','2011-05-10 08:45:11','2011-05-10 13:45:11','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4073',0,'post','',0),(4075,23,'2011-05-10 10:47:20','2011-05-10 15:47:20','Microsoft announced today that it will be acquiring Skype for $8.5bn.  What does this mean for you as the consumer?  Microsoft plans to add Skype features into XBox Live/Kinect, Windows Phone 7, Live Messenger, Outlook, and many more.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/may11/05-10CorpNewsPR.mspx\">http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/may11/05-10CorpNewsPR.mspx</a>','MICROSOFT ACQUIRES SKYPE','','publish','open','open','','microsoft-acquires-skype','','','2011-05-10 10:47:20','2011-05-10 15:47:20','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4075',0,'post','',0),(4089,2,'2011-05-11 08:28:09','2011-05-11 13:28:09','Mt. Pleasant, SC – May 11, 2011 – eGroup, Inc. today announced it has completed the enablement requirements for the VMware Cloud Computing Partner Lighthouse Initiative for VMware-qualified members of the VMware Partner Network. The Cloud Computing Partner Lighthouse program provides enablement and delivery materials to partners for vCloud Consulting Services including processes, service definition, management practices and models. VMware will continue to invest in eGroup, helping to ensure they can offer and deliver a growing range of cloud professional services.<!--more-->\n\nBased on VMware’s extensive experience working with both enterprises and service providers to deploy VMware vCloud® environments, the vCloud Accelerator Service is part of VMware’s growing portfolio of vCloud Consulting Services to accelerate the journey to the cloud by helping customers cut through the cloud hype, define a strategy, identify starting points, and develop a pragmatic roadmap for IT transformation.\n\n“Enterprise cloud initiatives endeavor to deliver unprecedented levels of IT agility and innovation,” said Matthew Stepanski, vice president, VMware Technical Services Cloud Practice. “VMware has made significant investments to help our customers build and deploy enterprise clouds while addressing the broad range of considerations involved in transitioning to the cloud, including technology architecture and implementation, operational processes, service definition, management practices, financial models and compliance.”\n\nThe new VMware vCloud reference architecture is a blueprint to help customers rapidly construct a working VMware vCloud solution leveraging technologies, best-practices and tools that have been proven in real-world enterprise cloud deployments. Based on VMware’s open architecture approach, the vCloud reference architecture provides the foundation for both enterprise and service provider clouds with thorough explanation of architectural elements, component details and examples of working VMware vCloud deployments. The VMware vCloud reference architecture significantly reduces the time required to research, plan and deploy a cloud-based environment.\n\nVMware’s cloud infrastructure and management vision is an evolutionary model of IT infrastructure based on virtualization that unifies private and public cloud resources with consistent security, compliance, management and quality of service. Building on the VMware vSphere™ foundation, the cloud infrastructure products and services VMware announced in August 2010 at VMworld – VMware vCloud Director, the VMware vShield product family and VMware vCloud Datacenter Services – introduce a hybrid cloud model that seamlessly bridges private and public clouds.\n\nAbout eGroup\n\nProviding customers across the southeast with a distinct competitive advantage since 1999, eGroup is a visionary technology solutions and services firm with the ability to execute swiftly in a rapidly changing information technology landscape.  eGroup\'s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security.  eGroup’s expertise and core competency is focused in three distinct areas: Cloud Services (public and private), Application Services, and End-User Computing.  To deliver these solutions, eGroup has strategic partnerships with industry leaders that include VMware, Cisco, and EMC, along with Citrix, Microsoft, and Trend Micro, and a highly-skilled workforce trained in all of the latest developments in information technology.  To learn more, visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a>.\n\nAbout VMware\n\nVMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere® – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization, which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com\">www.vmware.com</a>.\n\n# # #\n\nVMware, VMware vCenter, VMware vCloud, VMware vShield and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.','eGROUP HAS COMPLETED REQUIREMENTS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING PARTNER LIGHTHOUSE INITIATIVE FOR VMWARE','','publish','open','open','','egroup-has-completed-requirements-for-cloud-computing-partner-lighthouse-initiative-for-vmware','','','2011-05-11 08:28:09','2011-05-11 13:28:09','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4089',0,'post','',0),(4093,2,'2011-05-11 15:28:18','2011-05-11 20:28:18','<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Columbia-Office.jpg\"></a>Columbia, SC (May 11, 2011) — In a move reflecting its continued commitment to the Columbia market, eGroup, Inc., a technology solutions and services firm serving the southeast since 1999, announces the opening of a new LEED-certified office at 1316 Washington Street in the heart of downtown Columbia, SC.\n\neGroup opened the office to support its rapidly growing customer base in the region, as well as a rapidly growing team of employees.   eGroup has other offices throughout the southeast, including its headquarters in Mt. Pleasant, SC.   \n\n[caption id=\"attachment_4097\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Updated photos of the new office at 1316 Washington Street coming soon!\"]<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Columbia-Office1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-4097\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Columbia-Office1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>[/caption]\n\n<strong>About eGroup</strong>\n\nProviding customers across the southeast with a distinct competitive advantage since 1999, eGroup is a visionary technology solutions and services firm with the ability to execute swiftly in a rapidly changing information technology landscape.  eGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security.  eGroup’s expertise and core competency is focused in three distinct areas: Cloud Services (public and private), Application Services, and End-User Computing.  To deliver these solutions, eGroup has strategic partnerships with industry leaders that include VMware, Cisco, and EMC, along with Citrix, Microsoft, and Trend Micro, and a highly-skilled workforce trained in all of the latest developments in information technology.  To learn more, visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a>.','eGROUP OPENS NEW LEED-CERTIFIED OFFICE IN HEART OF COLUMBIA, SC','','publish','open','open','','egroup-opens-new-leed-certified-office-in-heart-of-columbia-sc','','','2011-05-11 15:28:18','2011-05-11 20:28:18','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4093',0,'post','',0),(4102,8,'2011-05-12 08:24:59','2011-05-12 13:24:59','When attempting to launch an application or desktop ica session you get the error \"You do not have the proper encryption level to access this session\".  This can happen for a variety of reasons.  The first thing to check is if there are any policies in place within group policy forcing a specific encryption level.  If not, then the issue could reside with the client application.\n\nTo check the client application settings search your local disk for Module.INI which is typically located in your profile by navigating to %AppData%RoamingICA Client and C:Program Files (x86)CitrixICA Client.  Edit this file and you should see something similar to below...\n\nThe key to editing the file is to force the encryption from the client by adding the line\n\n<strong>EncryptionLevelSession=EncRC5-128</strong>\n\nunder the WFCclient entry.  Save the file and relaunch the client, you should be able to connect successfully.\n\n;\n\n; ICA Override File\n\n;\n\n; Add ICA file settings that you want to be sent to client devices\n\n; to this file.  Settings contained in this file override any\n\n; settings generated by Web Interface.  This file is only used when\n\n; no bandwidth profile is selected.  When a bandwidth profile is\n\n; selected bandwidth_xxx.ica is used.\n\n;\n\n[WFClient]\n\nVersion=2\n\nRemoveICAFile=yes\n\nProxyTimeout=30000\n\nProxyFavorIEConnectionSetting=Yes\n\nProxyUseFQDN=Off\n\nEncryptionLevelSession=EncRC5-128\n\n[ApplicationServers]\n\nApplication=\n\n[Application]\n\nLauncher=WI\n\nTransportDriver=TCP/IP\n\nDoNotUseDefaultCSL=On\n\nBrowserProtocol=HTTPonTCP\n\nLocHttpBrowserAddress=!\n\nWinStationDriver=ICA 3.0\n\nProxyTimeout=30000\n\nAutologonAllowed=ON\n\n[EncRC5-0]\n\nDriverNameWin16=pdc0w.dll\n\nDriverNameWin32=pdc0n.dll\n\n[EncRC5-40]\n\nDriverNameWin16=pdc40w.dll\n\nDriverNameWin32=pdc40n.dll\n\n[EncRC5-56]\n\nDriverNameWin16=pdc56w.dll\n\nDriverNameWin32=pdc56n.dll\n\n[EncRC5-128]\n\nDriverNameWin16=pdc128w.dll\n\nDriverNameWin32=pdc128n.dll\n\n[Compress]\n\nDriverNameWin16=pdcompw.dll\n\nDriverNameWin32=pdcompn.dll','Citrix:  You do not have the proper encryption level to access this session','','publish','open','open','','citrix-you-do-not-have-the-proper-encryption-level-to-access-this-session','','','2011-05-12 08:24:59','2011-05-12 13:24:59','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4102',0,'post','',0),(4114,2,'2011-05-16 07:51:50','2011-05-16 12:51:50','Join us for the upcoming South Carolina VMUG Meeting!\n\n<strong>Thursday, June 2, 2011\n10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.</strong>\n\nDennys\n203 East Main St\n17th Floor Auditorium\nSpartanburg, SC 29319\n\nThis is a great opportunity to come together with your fellow VMware users to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!\n\n<strong>Meeting Highlights</strong>\n\nHands-on Labs provided by eGroup\nIntroduction to the VNX Family of Next Generation Storage\nLatest VMware Updates\n\nTo view the complete agenda and to register, click <a href=\"http://www.myvmug.org/e/in/eid=44\">here</a>.','eGROUP TO SPONSOR JUNE 2 SC VMUG IN SPARTANBURG','','publish','open','open','','egroup-to-sponsor-june-2-sc-vmug-in-spartanburg','','','2011-05-16 07:51:50','2011-05-16 12:51:50','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4114',0,'post','',0),(4119,44,'2011-05-16 10:00:30','2011-05-16 15:00:30','In the race to the cloud, we all knew that Google was going to be one of the front runners to the race, and we have for a long time been hearing about the fabled ChromeOS, but I was a little surprised by what I saw in the Chromebook announcement.\n\nThe Chromebook is a completely web based system that runs a thin OS on it built with the Chrome browser.  This browser gives you access to the internet and al your Apps stored in the cloud.  The OS is thin enough that Google is boasting a 8 second boot time on the Samsung version of the Chromebook.  While keeping the Chromebook close to an internet source is desirable, Google is supplying apps like Gmail, Google Docs, and more in an “offline” mode.\n\nThe true test for me with the Chromebook is going to be it functionality with 3<sup>rd</sup> party applications like VMware View and Citrix.  Google has teamed up with both virtual desktop providers, but there isn’t much clear information about what the capabilities of these apps on the Chromebook will be yet.  I would like to see a local mode available for VMware View.\n\nBelow are a few of the Google marketing videos with basic (if not vague) information on the Chromebook.\n\nI think this one is a wait and see.  They will be released to the general public 6/15.  See Google’s <a title=\"Chromebook launch page\" href=\"http://www.google.com/chromebook/#\" target=\"_blank\">Chromebook</a> launch page for more information.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVqe8ieqz10\n\n<!--more-->\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-WpGvBkLo','Google to release cloud based Chromebook','','publish','open','open','','google-to-release-cloud-based-chromebook','','','2011-05-16 10:00:30','2011-05-16 15:00:30','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4119',0,'post','',1),(4116,2,'2011-05-16 10:02:56','2011-05-16 15:02:56','<a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/i5k.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4120\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/i5k-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\nRecognizing that a highly skilled workforce is critical to growing Charleston’s knowledge economy, the Digital Corridor donates a portion of the proceeds from the annual <a href=\"http://www.ifivek.com/\">iFive:K</a> race to providing scholarships for students seeking education in a technology-related field. Each year, a portion of the iFive:K proceeds go to educate tomorrow\'s innovators by providing scholarships, internships, public speaking engagements or other relevant workforce development initiatives through this scholarship fund.  As a key sponsor of the iFive:K, eGroup was asked to help choose this year\'s recipients. \n\nThe Charleston Digital Corridor Scholarship Award was presented on Monday, May 16th at 10am in the Atrium at ECPI College of Technology’s annual award ceremony. A student from both the Network Security and Electronics Engineering Technology programs were chosen by eGroup and fellow Digital Corridor Member Companies SLANT Media and BoomTown to receive this honor based on academic performance, attendance and a written essay. \n\nCongratulations to scholarship recipients Wesley Boothe (Computer Information Systems) and Eric Bell (Electrical Engineering Technology) !','eGROUP HELPS SELECT CHARLESTON DIGITAL CORRIDOR SCHOLARSHIP AWARD RECIPIENTS','','publish','open','open','','egroup-helps-select-charleston-digital-corridor-scholarship-award-recipients','','','2011-05-16 10:02:56','2011-05-16 15:02:56','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4116',0,'post','',0),(4086,23,'2011-05-16 10:07:18','2011-05-16 15:07:18','If you have never created a SQL Cluster before, then it can be a confusing and daunting task.  Here are a couple resources to help you along...\n\nBasic tasks:\n\n1. Create shared LUNs and provide them to the servers in your cluster.  Make sure you can see the disks on your servers.\n\n2. Add the Windows 2008 Failover Clustering Feature.  Setup your cluster on one node first and get it functional.\n\n3. Run the SQL 2008 Setup to create a Failover Cluster\n\n4. Add the Failover Clustering Feature to the other servers in the cluster and add them as nodes.\n\n5. Run the SQL 2008 Setup to add the additional nodes in the cluster\n\nUseful Links:\n\n<a title=\"Microsoft SQL 2008 Clustering Guide\" href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179530.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft SQL 2008 Clustering Guide</a>\n<a title=\"MSSQLTips.com Guide to SQL Clustering\" href=\"http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1709\" target=\"_blank\">MSSQLTips.com Guide to SQL Clustering</a> - Highly recommended!','SQL 2008: CREATING A CLUSTER','','publish','open','open','','sql-2008-creating-a-cluster','','','2011-05-16 10:07:18','2011-05-16 15:07:18','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4086',0,'post','',0),(4128,13,'2011-05-17 18:17:06','2011-05-17 23:17:06','Cisco’s <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10265/index.html\">Unified Computing Systems</a> (UCS) has acquired the reputation of leading the next-generation of data center platforms by merging together the IT needs of computing, networking, storage access and virtualization into one unified system.  \n\nNow until July 31, 2011, Cisco has announced (9) extensively discounted <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10280/index.html\">UCS B-Series Blade Server </a>and <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/index.html\">C-Series Rack-Mount Server </a>Bundles that are fully configured and ready to be implemented in any data center.  This is a great opportunity for any company to experience the next-generation of data center platforms with Cisco\'s UCS at an exceptionally low entry point.\n\n<strong>UCS B-Series Smart Play Promo Summary</strong> \n\nThe Smart Play UCS B-Series Bundles have (5) options that range from an introductory priced B200 bundle to a high performance B230 Bundle which most are  including the Cisco <a href=\"http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10331/index.html\">M81KR Virtual Interface Card</a>.  \n\n <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/b-series.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4130\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/b-series.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"491\" /></a>\n\n<strong> <!--more--></strong>\n\n<strong>UCS C-Series Smart Play Promo Summary</strong>\n\nThe Smart Play UCS C-Series Bundles have (4) options that are equally priced to be among the most competitive price point in the market.  These B-Series and C-Series Smart Play Bundles are offering significant bundled price reduction.\n\n <a href=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/c-SERIES.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4131\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/c-SERIES.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"402\" /></a>\n\nFor further information and pricing on these Cisco Smart Play Bundle Promotions, please email <a href=\"mailto:info@eGroup-us.com\">info@eGroup-us.com</a> or call (843) 284-0146.','THE NEW AND ENHANCED CISCO SMART PLAY BUNDLES ARE NOW AVAILABLE UNTIL 7/31/2011','','publish','open','open','','the-new-and-enhanced-cisco-smart-play-bundles-now-until-7312011','','','2011-05-17 18:17:06','2011-05-17 23:17:06','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4128',0,'post','',0),(4141,2,'2011-05-18 12:52:10','2011-05-18 17:52:10','eGroup was recently accepted into VMware\'s vShield Partner Initiative, an exclusive program only offered to a select set of <strong>less than 20</strong> Americas VMware Partners with expertise in security. \n\nSecurity, control and compliance are consistently among the Top 3 CIO concerns in surveys &amp; market intelligence around cloud computing. The security market size will grow to $40B in 2013 (Source IDC).\n\nvShield is VMware’s security brand &amp; has proven success in delivering robust solutions for cloud security including securing hosts, networks, applications, data and endpoints.  Learn more about <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/vshield/overview.html\">vShield</a>. \n\nAs a committed VMware partner who’s also a leader in the security space, eGroup will work closely with VMware to establish solid expertise &amp; growth in this market.<!--more-->\n\n<strong>About eGroup</strong>\n\nProviding customers across the southeast with a distinct competitive advantage since 1999, eGroup is a visionary technology solutions and services firm with the ability to execute swiftly in a rapidly changing information technology landscape.  eGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security.  eGroup’s expertise and core competency is focused in three distinct areas: Cloud Services (public and private), Application Services, and End-User Computing.  To deliver these solutions, eGroup has strategic partnerships with industry leaders that include VMware, Cisco, and EMC, along with Citrix, Microsoft, and Trend Micro, and a highly-skilled workforce trained in all of the latest developments in information technology.  To learn more, visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a>.\n\n<strong>About VMware</strong>\n\nVMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere® – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization, which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com\">www.vmware.com</a>.\n\n# # #\n\nVMware, VMware vCenter, VMware vCloud, VMware vShield and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.','eGROUP ONE OF LESS THAN 20 PARTNERS IN AMERICAS ACCEPTED INTO VMWARE vSHIELD PARTNER INITIATIVE ','','publish','open','open','','egroup-one-of-less-than-20-partners-in-americas-accepted-into-vmware-vshield-partner-initiative','','','2011-05-18 12:52:10','2011-05-18 17:52:10','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4141',0,'post','',0),(4118,23,'2011-05-18 20:02:19','2011-05-19 01:02:19','Microsoft announced today that Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 will be released by the end of June.  Among the list of added features and improvements is the support for Chrome and IE9 for SharePoint.\n\nThat is just one of the improvements being added.  Stay tuned for more info coming as TechEd Atlanta kicks off...\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/05/11/announcing-service-pack-1-for-office-2010-and-sharepoint-2010.aspx\" target=\"_new\">Announcing Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010</a>','OFFICE 2010 AND SHAREPOINT 2010 SP1 COMING IN JUNE!','','publish','open','open','','office-2010-and-sharepoint-2010-sp1-coming-in-june','','','2011-05-18 20:02:19','2011-05-19 01:02:19','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4118',0,'post','',0),(4149,44,'2011-05-19 15:15:52','2011-05-19 20:15:52','Many of our customers use <a href=\"http://iomega.com/nas/network-attached-storage.html\">Iomega Network Attached Storage </a>(NAS) units as backup-to-disk targets. We have a customer who uses an <a href=\"http://go.iomega.com/en-us/products/network-storage-desktop/storcenter-network-storage-solution/network-hard-drive-ix4-200d-cloud/\">Iomega ix4-200d </a>to store backups of their vSphere environment made using vRanger Pro.  The ix4-200d is a popular model because it contains four drives that can be configured to provide RAID 5 or RAID 10 protection, and is available in raw capacities of 4TB, 8TB and 12TB.\n\nOur customer recently experienced a drive failure in a NAS unit that had been in production for more than a year. Fortunately, the drives were configured with RAID 5 and there was no data loss.\n\nWhen opening a support case with Iomega we were told that the unit was no longer under warranty – which was surprising since it comes with a 36-month warranty and was only 17 months old. We learned that the unit had never been registered on Iomega’s web site, which is a requirement for activating warranty support. Fortunately the customer was able to locate the original invoice as proof of purchase and complete the online warranty registration.\n\nOnce warranty support was confirmed, we asked Iomega support to send a replacement for the failed drive. They first had us upload a dump file from the unit, and then instructed us to upgrade the firmware both in the unit itself and on the individual drives. The firmware upgrades restored the failed drive to working order and the drive was re-added to the RAID group, making a replacement drive unnecessary.\n\nSome lessons learned from this experience:\n– Make sure to register your NAS on Iomega’s web site. Warranty coverage is not available\n– If you own an Iomega NAS unit, it would be a good idea to proactively upgrade the firmware. You might avoid drive failures of the type our customer experienced\n\nLinks to the firmware downloads and installation instructions for the Iomega ix4-200d can be found <a href=\"https://iomega-na-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22315\">here</a> and <a href=\"https://iomega-na-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24661/related/1\">here</a>.\n\nUnfortunately in our customer\'s case the drive failed again while being added back to the RAID group and will  need to be replaced.','FIRMWARE UPDATES MAY FIX FAILED DRIVES IN IOMEGA NAS UNITS','','publish','open','open','','firmware-updates-fix-failed-drives-in-iomega-nas-units','','','2011-05-19 15:15:52','2011-05-19 20:15:52','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4149',0,'post','',0),(4172,12,'2011-05-20 15:48:30','2011-05-20 20:48:30','Quick post that hopefully someone finds useful out in the field--\n\nWhile working with the EMC VNXe, I had to get into SPs via the command line for some support stuff, but could not find ANYWHERE in any documentation what the username was to be able to do this. But then I reread what it was asking me for-- the \"service\" account. So I tried the username \"service\" with the password I had previously set on the account, and sure enough, that was it.','EMC VNXe -- CLI CREDENTIALS','','publish','open','open','','emc-vnxe-cli-credentials','','','2011-05-20 15:48:30','2011-05-20 20:48:30','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4172',0,'post','',1),(4146,23,'2011-05-23 08:17:24','2011-05-23 13:17:24','I recently ran into a problem with a client\'s SQL 2005 Standard server where the Express Edition of SSMS (Management Studio) had been installed.  The Express Edition had to be completely removed and the Standard version of SSMS was installed.\n\nHowever, I kept seeing the following error when I tried to open my Maintenance Plans...\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Method not found: \'Void Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.DatabaseMaintenance.TaskUIUtils..ctor()\'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.MaintenancePlanTasksUI)</em></p>\nThe problem was that SSMS was at a different patch level after I re-installed it.  I installed SP4, which was the patch level of the Database Engine, and everything worked!\n\n<strong>Please note:</strong> The first time you open the Maintenance Plan after patching you will see the following error, which can be ignored...\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The DDS Layout contains an invalid control progid. The layout will be regenerated.</em></div>\n<div></div>','SQL: MAINTENANCE PLAN - METHOD NOT FOUND ERROR','','publish','open','open','','sql-maintenance-plan-method-not-found-error','','','2011-05-23 08:17:24','2011-05-23 13:17:24','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4146',0,'post','',0),(4157,6,'2011-05-23 10:17:05','2011-05-23 15:17:05','Winner of a numrous awards, Veeam is at it again with their new <strong><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jiW9AireNs\">vPower</a></strong>. There are 5 things to keep in mind with how vPower how can help you:\n\n1. <strong>Instant VM Recovery</strong> - allows you to minimize downtime by running a VM from a compressed/deduplicted backup file\n\n2. <strong>Universal Application-Item Recovery (U-Air</strong>) - enables quick recovery of individual objects from any virtualized application\n\n3. <strong>SureBackup Recovery Verification</strong> - Test backups to ensure you can recover quickly and easily\n\n4. <strong>On-Demand Sandbox</strong> - test environment (read-only) that allows you to restor VMs in an isolated environment\n\n5. <strong>Instant File-Level Recovery</strong> - allows you to eliminate multiple backups and use 1 fully tested image-based backup for any possible recovery situation\n\nFor more info, please check out Veeam\'s <a href=\"http://go.veeam.com/5-ways-to-put-vpower-to-work-for-you.html?ad=home\"><strong>site</strong></a>. They have some great videos that can get you up to speed quickly.','VEEAM’S vPower','','publish','open','open','','veeams-vpower','','','2011-05-23 10:17:05','2011-05-23 15:17:05','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4157',0,'post','',0),(4185,44,'2011-05-24 08:28:13','2011-05-24 13:28:13','Sorry for the extremely long blog title, but this is an error that I have come across recently, and wanted to share the solution.\n\n<em>Freezing guest operating system\nCreateSnapshot failed, vmRef \"*\", timeout \"1800000\", snName \"VEEAM BACKUP TEMPORARY SNAPSHOT\", snDescription \"Please do not delete this snapshot. It is being used by Veeam Backup.\", memory \"False\", quiesce \"False\"\nFile &lt;unspecified filename&gt; is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore \'&lt;unspecified datastore&gt;</em>\n\nThe solution is actually to move the configuration files from from a datastore that has a lower block size (2MB or 4MB) to a datastore with a larger block size.  This is due to the fact that the expansion of the data during the backup process.','VEEAM Error - Freezing guest operating system CreateSnapshot failed, vmRef \"*\", timeout \"1800000\", snName \"VEEAM BACKUP TEMPORARY SNAPSHOT\", snDescription \"Please do not delete this snapshot. It is being used by Veeam Backup.\", memory \"False\", quiesce \"False\"  File  is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore \'','','publish','open','open','','veeam-error-freezing-guest-operating-system-createsnapshot-failed-vmref-timeout-1800000-snname-veeam-backup-temporary-snapshot-sndescription-please-do-not-delete-this-snapshot-i','','','2011-05-24 08:28:13','2011-05-24 13:28:13','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4185',0,'post','',0),(4151,44,'2011-05-24 14:41:10','2011-05-24 19:41:10','EMC has created a new public RecoverPoint EMC Community Network web site as a place for RecoverPoint administrators and partners to access expert advice, and for sharing RecoverPoint knowledge and experiences.  Check it out <a href=\"https://community.emc.com/community/connect/recoverpoint\">here</a>.','EMC ANNOUNCES NEW RECOVERPOINT COMMUNITY NETWORK','','publish','open','open','','emc-announces-new-recoverpoint-community-network','','','2011-05-24 14:41:10','2011-05-24 19:41:10','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4151',0,'post','',0),(4203,6,'2011-05-31 09:24:00','2011-05-31 14:24:00','Back in February, I uncovered an issue where backing up Virtual Machines on NFS storage, and using Change Block Tracking (CBT) was severely impacting VM performance. (<a href=\"http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=3372\"><strong>LINK</strong></a>). After digging into the issue, the best course of action was to turn off CBT.  CBT, when enabled, results in much faster backup times, but in this case the performance was not worth the performance hit.\n\nI was on the phone recently with VEEAM\'s tech support, and we discussed VMware\'s recently released security patch, <strong><a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1035108\">ESXi410-201104401-SG</a></strong>, which specifically resolves the issue at hand. Below is a snippet from the release notes:\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1035108\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-4205 aligncenter\" src=\"http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cbt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"53\" /></a></p>\n \n\nI wanted to provide a follow up, and make sure everyone was updated. If you have been experiencing the issue and need to restore the tighter backup windows, then I recommend testing the patchby deploying to your test environment, turning CBT back for a couple test VMs, and checking full functionality by backing up. Once you have fully tested, proceed by rolling it into production.','VMWARE PATCH RESOLVES CHANGE BLOCK TRACKING (CBT) AND NFS STORAGE ISSUE','','publish','open','open','','vmware-patch-resolves-change-block-tracking-cbt-and-nfs-storage-issue','','','2011-05-31 09:24:00','2011-05-31 14:24:00','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4203',0,'post','',0),(4210,25,'2011-05-31 10:14:45','2011-05-31 15:14:45','An interesting support case came across my desk last week.  One of our customers reported an issue involving network printers that were distributed via Microsoft Group Policy to over two hundred Windows XP workstations that were still appearing in the “Printers and faxes” dialogue box long after the policy was removed.\n\nManually removing the printers only temporarily resolved the problem, as the printers would reappear after a certain amount of time.  We double checked the workstations to verify that they were still not inheriting the policy, and none were. \n\nAfter fully investigating the issue, and drawing on Microsoft Support for guidance, we were able to find the source of the problem.  Once network printers have been distributed via group policy, great care has to be taken when it’s time to remove the printers from the active workstations.  Improper removal results in registry entries for the printers remaining in the following path:\n\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPrintConnections\n\nTo remove this entry manually, one must backup the registry, delete the item, and then restart the Print Spooler service.  Of course, manually removing this one registry entry on over two hundred desktops seemed very time consuming and impractical.  Luckily for this customer, we had just implemented a very handy solution from Scriptlogic called Desktop Authority. (<a href=\"http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/desktopauthority/\">http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/desktopauthority/</a>)\n\nUsing Desktop Authority the customer was able to make this change on all of the affected workstations without ever having to leave his desk, or write a complex script.','REMOVING NETWORK PRINTERS DISTRIBUTED VIA GROUP POLICY','','publish','open','open','','removing-network-printers-distributed-via-group-policy','','','2011-05-31 10:14:45','2011-05-31 15:14:45','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4210',0,'post','',0),(4221,8,'2011-05-31 18:31:35','2011-05-31 23:31:35','VMware PowerCLI is a set of 200+ PowerShell cmdlets designed for Mangement and Automation of vCenter operations.  PowerCLI reaches almost every point of the VMware Infrastructure from a management and configuration standpoint and is a easy to use Powershell interface to the VMware APIs.\n\nPowerCLI operations can be executed from the PowerCLI console or as scripts, custom applications (Java, .Net, Perl, etc...) which allows them to be flexible.  This flexibility allows administrators to automate tedious tasks such as patching, provisioning, etc... while it also assures consistency and reduces human error in scaled rollouts.  PowerCLI can also be used for reporting, monitoring and remediation jobs as well.  PowerCLI allows developers object based access to the VMware APIs which reduces application complexity and allows for various forms of user interaction such as web based apps, plugins, console apps and mobile apps via PowerShell remoting.\n\nIn this example I will demonstrate how to patch an ESX(i) host(s) all at once and monitor the results.  Keep in mind, you can always add the -whatif flag to statements to simulate a job before actually executing.  From this, I hope to demonstrate how to connect, get hosts managed by vCenter, configure a task and monitor the progress and output of that task.\n<ol>\n	<li><strong>Create your ps1 file or open up an interactive PowerCLI session.</strong></li><br />\n	<li><strong>Connect to vCenter</strong>:  connect-viserver &lt;vcenteraddress&gt; -user &lt;user&gt; -password &lt;password&gt;</li><br />\n	<li><strong>Change the directory to the location of your patch files</strong>.  Note: Patch file must have a metadata.zip and be accessible from all hosts.  You can map a PSDrive with the following command.  New-PSDrive -Name &lt;name&gt; -PSProvider VIMDataStore -Root \'/\' -Location Get-DataStore &lt;DataStore Name&gt;</li><br />\n	<li><strong>(Optional) If the patch files are on your local machine you can copy them to this location using the copy command:</strong> copy-datastoreitem \'&lt;source&gt;\' . -recursive</li><br />\n	<li><strong>Get the HOST list and set them into maintenance mode (use the evacuate option to migrate VMs)</strong>: get-vmhost | set-VMHost -state  Maintenance</li><br />\n	<li><strong>Set a variable to hold the tasks to execute:</strong>  $tasks = @()</li><br />\n	<li><strong>Populate the tasks array with the patch commands:</strong>  get-vmhost | foreach { $tasks = &lt;patch location of metadata.zip file&gt; -VMHost $_ -RunAsync}</li><br />\n	<li><strong>You should now see the tasks executing in the vSphere Client.  </strong></li><br />\n	<li><strong>To monitor these tasks in the PowerCLI console type</strong>: wait-task $tasks</li><br />\n	<li><strong>Once the operation is complete, set the hosts out of maintenance mode and reboot if instructed to do so by the result of the patching operation:  get-vmhost</strong> | set-VMHost -state  Connected</li><br />\n</ol>\nTo evacuate the VMs and do a host at a time you can remove the -RunAsync parameter and add the -Evacuate parameter to the maintenance mode setting to evacuate the VMs to another host prior to entering maintenance mode. \n\nExample: get-vmhost | foreach {\n\nset-VMHost -state  Maintenance -Evacuate\n\n&lt;upgrade script&gt;\n\n}\n\nQuestions, please use the comments below.','VMware PowerCLI:  Automate Patching of ESX/ESXi Hosts','','publish','open','open','','vmware-powercli-automate-patching-of-esxesxi-hosts','','','2011-05-31 18:31:35','2011-05-31 23:31:35','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4221',0,'post','',0),(4225,24,'2011-05-31 21:00:46','2011-06-01 02:00:46','EMC has a new solution that supports the simultaneous booting of up to 1,000 virtual desktops in Citrix XenDesktop environments. The solution combines the new VNX unified storage appliance with FAST Cache technology. This is EMC\'s first VNX solution for the Citrix enviroment.','EMC\'s new solution to mitigate boot storms','','publish','open','open','','emcs-new-solution-to-mitigate-boot-storms','','','2011-05-31 21:00:46','2011-06-01 02:00:46','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4225',0,'post','',0),(4229,24,'2011-05-31 21:14:13','2011-06-01 02:14:13','Here is an issue I ran into the other week.  I wanted to add VLAN\'s to the three SSID\'s I had already set up on some Cisco AP\'s.  I already had WEP setup on two of them, and a WPA Pre-shared key set up on the other.  When I created the VLAN\'s and applied them to the SSID\'s it cleared out the WEP keys and the WPA key.  In order for clients to reasscoiate with the AP\'s I had to reenter all the information back in.  Just an FYI.','Adding VLANs to exisiting SSID\'s on Cisco Aironet 1242AG','','publish','open','open','','adding-vlans-to-exisiting-ssids-on-cisco-aironet-1242ag','','','2011-05-31 21:14:13','2011-06-01 02:14:13','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4229',0,'post','',0),(4231,44,'2011-06-01 12:00:54','2011-06-01 17:00:54','EMC has released a new version of their Enterprise Secure Remote Support (ESRS) gateway that facilitates proactive alerting and support for EMC storage arrays and equipment. Previous versions of the ESRS Gateway required a dedicated Windows server instance with IIS installed, and entailed a lengthy configuration process and an on-site support visit from an EMC Customer Engineer.\n\nThe new ESRS IP Solution installs as a set of services on a Windows server but does not require a dedicated OS instance, IIS, or an on-site support visit.\n\nThere are several benefits to the ESRS IP Solution:\n\n    &gt; A streamedlined, wizard-driven installation process\n\n    &gt; No phone line and modem are needed\n\n    &gt; It\'s not necessary to dedicate a Windows OS instance\n\n    &gt; In most cases no special firewall rules are needed\n\n    &gt; Multiple storage arrays and sites can be monitored from a single gateway\n\n    &gt; EMC can have secure, encrypted, audited remote access to perform diagnostics and repairs\n\nMore information and additional details on the ESRS IP Solution are available on EMC\'s web site <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/data-sheet/h1948-secure-remote-supp-gateway-ds.pdf\">here</a> and <a href=\"http://emc.co/collateral/services/consulting/h2067-em-cert-serv-top10-svo.pdf\">here</a>.','EMC RELEASES NEW SECURE REMOTE SUPPORT IP SOLUTION','','publish','open','open','','emc-releases-new-secure-remote-support-ip-solution','','','2011-06-01 12:00:54','2011-06-01 17:00:54','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4231',0,'post','',0),(4238,8,'2011-06-06 18:23:33','2011-06-06 23:23:33','Simplify management of your virtual infrastructure by automation management tasks and gaining insight into specific areas of your virtual infrastructure with PowerCLI.  PowerCLI is a Windows PowerShell interface to the vSphere API.  PowerCLI cmdlets along with View APIs, ThinApp APIs, VIX APIs, and other management tools allows you to script tasks in very short commands without having to write the code to access the APIs.  Scripted tasks can be utilized to configure vSphere (Hosts, VMs, DataCenters,etc...), extract performance metrics, gather environment information and ANY OTHER TASK THAT CAN BE DONE VIA VMware vSphere CLIENT.\n\nWhy PowerCLI and what can you do with it?  PowerCLI is not just a different way to administer systems and applications, it is rapidly becoming THE WAY.  PowerCLI unleashes the ability to interact with APIs in a command line way familar to administrators, something that once was only available to developers.  Developers can integrate PowerCLI and PowerShell CMDLETS (\"CommandLets\") into their applications to further ease the task of systems and application administration.  CMDLETS can be scripted to automate or repeat routine tasks over large environments.  CMDLETS can also be utilized to make configuration changes to multiple targets at once.  CMDLETS additionally can be utilized to colllect valuable information for maintenance (Average CPU usage, What VMs have CDROMs connected, Show me orphaned VMDKs).  All of which save valuable time proactively and reactively.\n\neGroup can help, getting started with PowerCLI and PowerShell isn\'t as difficult as you would think but mastery takes time and experience.  Best thing about it is you can do most of the stuff you need from exisitng scripts and build your own scripts over time.  eGroup offers a multi-day engagement designed at enabling IT administrators to utilize PowerCLI and PowerShell to save valuable time and gain valuable insight into the operations of their Virtual Infrastructure.  These same skills can easily be utilized in the management of Exchange, SharePoint, Citix XA/XD/PVS, VMware View and ThinApp, etc... \n\n','VMware: SIMPLIFY MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATE TASKS WITH PowerCLI','','publish','open','open','','vmware-simplify-management-and-automate-tasks-with-powercli','','','2011-06-06 18:23:33','2011-06-06 23:23:33','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4238',0,'post','',0),(4240,16,'2011-06-06 21:24:38','2011-06-07 02:24:38','The cloud is here. Finally, after years of battling with multiple devices and my iTunes purchases, it is no more. As a self-proclaimed Apple fanatic (proud Mac Book Pro, iPhone 4, and iPad 2 owner) I can\'t remember an Apple update I\'ve been more excited about. New features include iTunes purchases available on any device, last 1000 photos available on any device, iBooks anywhere. The idea of not having to worry about syncing my iPhone and iPad to a single device is liberating. Combined with the new features in the upcoming iOS 5 - http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/ - this is a game changer.\n\nhttp://www.apple.com/icloud/\n\nAny application. Any device. Anywhere.\n\n','WHY iCloud AND iOS 5 IS A BIGGER DEAL THAN WE REALIZE!','','publish','open','open','','why-icloud-and-ios-5-is-a-bigger-deal-than-we-realize','','','2011-06-06 21:24:38','2011-06-07 02:24:38','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4240',0,'post','',0),(4243,44,'2011-06-07 07:59:05','2011-06-07 12:59:05','<img src=\"http://blogs-images.forbes.com/ericsavitz/files/2011/06/0aw7dq75MOb9C_6642-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" />Yesterday at WWDC, Apple announced the next level of Mac OSX....Lion.\n\nApple spoke about around 250 updates to the OS, including improved gesturing, a Command Center, and a major Mail update.\n\nThis update along with IOS 5 (to be released in the fall) seems to be further blurring the lines between OSX and IOS, the new Mail app looks almost identical to the iPad version.\n\nThe upgrade will be available on the App Store in July and will cost $29.99.','MAC OSX LION COMING IN JULY','','publish','open','open','','mac-osx-lion-coming-in-july','','','2011-06-07 07:59:05','2011-06-07 12:59:05','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4243',0,'post','',0),(4252,2,'2011-06-07 10:14:27','2011-06-07 15:14:27','Following recent cyberattacks against several defense contractors, in which hackers breached security using stolen SecurID keys, SecurID maker RSA is promising to replace the tokens for customers concerned about the vulnerabilty of their network data.  Read the full article <a href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20069632-83/rsa-to-replace-securid-tokens-following-breaches/\">here</a>. \n\nRead the <a href=\"http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3891\">Open Letter to RSA SecurID Customers</a>.\n\nFor more information on all remediation actions, customers should contact:\n\n<strong>U.S.: 1-800-782-4362, Option #5 for RSA, Option #1 for the RSA SecurID Remediation Program</strong>\n\neGroup can assist with the following tasks to remediate the SecureID security issues:\n\n- Retrieval and removal of all existing SecureID tokens.\n- Installation / Reissuance of replacement tokens.\n- Healthcheck of SecureID / RSA Manager environment to ensure best practices are adhered to.\n\nPlease call us at 1-877-eGROUP-1 or e-mail <a href=\"mailto:InsideSales@eGroup-us.com\">InsideSales@eGroup-us.com</a> with any questions, and for assistance with your SecurID security issues.','JUST ANNOUNCED: RSA TO REPLACE SecurID TOKENS FOLLOWING BREACHES','','publish','open','open','','just-announced-rsa-to-replace-securid-tokens-following-breaches','','','2011-06-07 10:14:27','2011-06-07 15:14:27','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4252',0,'post','',0),(4261,12,'2011-06-07 15:37:30','2011-06-07 20:37:30','Shortly after posting a blog entry ( <a href=\"http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=3969\" target=\"_blank\">http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=3969</a> ) with my thoughts and experience from the field with a VNXe, I was contacted by an EMC Engineer who works on the VNXe platform. He specifically asked for the cause of an error message we had seen, and while I won\'t quote him directly, he basically said \"This platform is designed to be extremely simple, and spitting out hex codes for error messages does not fit our vision. We will fix that error and make it user-friendly and legible\".\n\nAfter following up with the Engineer this week, I was informed that they found the location the error existed, and will be implementing a fix to make the message simple and easy to read.\n\nNow THAT\'S COMMITTED to the SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT goal!','EMC VNXe - COMMITTED TO SIMPLICITY!','','publish','open','open','','emc-vnxe-committed-to-simplicity','','','2011-06-07 15:37:30','2011-06-07 20:37:30','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4261',0,'post','',0),(4264,6,'2011-06-07 15:50:07','2011-06-07 20:50:07','On site with a customer today, and I have been running into multiple issues with Microsoft Genuine Activation, and it took a while but I have uncovered the fix.\n\nIn my case: I\'m configuring Windows XP SP3 (so you are running a different OS, your results may vary)\n\nWith that being said, XP was throwing up messages about not having a valid OS, and it needing to phone home for updates and Genuine Activation process. The Microsoft Genuine Activation was failiing after repeated attempts and multiple access methods to the internet (LAN, Wireless, Broadband). It kept throwing up a blank page on the site. So from my guestimation the site or something along the lines of there DNS or Time Servers is off, but that will take more research.\n\nTo fix the issue:\n\nChange the Windows OS system date to a couple days ago (in my case I changed it from today (Tuesday) to Sunday\n\nI re-opened Windows Update and this time my Windows Genuine Activation COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY\n\nI\'m now successfully activated and able to continue updating my OS. Once you\'re done updating, be sure to change the system date and time back to the correct settings.\n\nHope this helps you if you\'re running into the same type problem!','WINDOWS GENUINE ACTIVATION FAILING AND HOW TO FIX IT','','publish','open','open','','windows-genuine-activation-failing-and-how-to-fix-it','','','2011-06-07 15:50:07','2011-06-07 20:50:07','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4264',0,'post','',0),(4272,6,'2011-06-08 12:14:23','2011-06-08 17:14:23','Ran into an issue today where Symantec\'s Live Update was not showing up an installed application on a backup server. I confirmed this as my attempt to run Live Update via Backup Exec pulled up this message:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;</p>\r\nHere\'s a quick way to get Live Update back on the server, so you can run updates to keep Backup Exec up to date:\r\n\r\n1. Go here <a href=\"ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/liveupdate/3.3.0/LUSETUP.EXE\">LiveUpdate3.3</a>\r\n\r\n2. Download the program to a safe place\r\n\r\n3. Run the program and you should get a \"<strong>Live Update Installed Successfully</strong>\" message\r\n\r\n4. Re-open Symantec Backup Exec, click Tools, Live Update\r\n\r\n5. And you should be all set with the Live Update Tool moving forward.','SYMANTEC LIVE UPDATE IS NOT INSTALLED AND HOW TO FIX IT','','publish','open','open','','symantec-live-update-is-not-installed-and-how-to-fix-it','','','2011-06-09 19:48:52','2011-06-09 19:48:52','',0,'http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/?p=4272',0,'post','',0),(4282,44,'2011-06-08 13:03:50','2011-06-08 18:03:50','We\'ve been asking EMC for a best practices document for using VNX storage arrays with VMware vSphere and they\'ve finally released one. It\'s available on Powerlink <a href=\"http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/White_Paper/h8229-vnx-vmware-tb.pdf\">here</a>. 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SEFL made its first delivery 60+ years ago but maintains the same mission for each associate today: to meet or exceed the needs of every customer – every single time.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\nNearly every process with SEFL relies on some form of service technology or internet connectivity, so when a major computer outage occurred in 2006, SEFL needed a knowledgeable partner to bring several systems such as Citrix, VMWare and Microsoft back online to avoid a potentially catastrophic event.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\nSoutheastern Freight Lines relies on eGroup for information technology consulting services such as planning and implementation, farm server growth and management, and health checks of various IT systems.\r\n<blockquote>“eGroup has been a long standing partner with SEFL and is highly trusted in our organization. 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These cooperatives, operating as Farm Credit and Ag Credit agricultural credit associations, provide real estate and production financing to 80,000 farmers, agribusinesses, and rural homeowners.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\neGroup had been providing proactive design, security systems and consulting services for AgFirst up until 2010 when a system error occurred in the IT infrastructure, seriously threatening performance.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\nThough AgFirst was not contracted for reactive support at the time, eGroup responded immediately and helped identify the root of the system error.\r\n<blockquote>“eGroup has proven that they can deliver enterprise solutions in a very large environment. 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These cooperatives, operating as Farm Credit and Ag Credit agricultural credit associations, provide real estate and production financing to 80,000 farmers, agribusinesses, and rural homeowners.\n\nChallenge:\n\neGroup had been providing proactive design, security systems and consulting services for AgFirst up until 2010 when a system error occurred in the IT infrastructure, seriously threatening performance.\n\nSolution:\n\nThough AgFirst was not contracted for reactive support at the time, eGroup responded immediately and helped identify the root of the system error.\n\nResults\n\nSince then, eGroup has continued to assess AgFirst’s virtual environment and assist them in moving to the next level of secure and reliable virtualization.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“eGroup has proven that they can deliver enterprise solutions in a very large environment. 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These cooperatives, operating as Farm Credit and Ag Credit agricultural credit associations, provide real estate and production financing to 80,000 farmers, agribusinesses, and rural homeowners.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\neGroup had been providing proactive design, security systems and consulting services for AgFirst up until 2010 when a system error occurred in the IT infrastructure, seriously threatening performance.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\nThough AgFirst was not contracted for reactive support at the time, eGroup responded immediately and helped identify the root of the system error.\r\n<blockquote>“eGroup has proven that they can deliver enterprise solutions in a very large environment. 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They are a customer-driven company that prides itself on staying up to date with the latest technologies in order to pass along benefits to its members.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\nWhen it came time to install and implement a virtual environment to better serve its customers, they turned to eGroup because of their reputation and background in virtual technologies.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\nWorking with eGroup allowed Horry Electric to get their virtual data center and other infrastructure projects up and running faster than if they had worked in house.\r\n<blockquote>“I was skeptical about the amount of work they wanted to do in a short amount of time. But we were able to get it all accomplished in less time than they expected. Totally blew us away.”\r\n- IT Manager, Horry Electric Cooperative\r\n\r\n“With their expertise at our disposal, it is like having additional staff on hand. They have never made us feel like we were just another client. 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They needed to improve the integrity of their network infrastructure and set up a new virtual environment.  Both initiatives would give them the ability to rapidly respond to internal needs and provide future growth with a high level of confidence.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\nThey first selected eGroup for a small network infrastructure and security assessment, and after being satisfied with the service they received, made the decision to expand their commitment.  eGroup set up a new virtual environment, allowing Beaufort Memorial the flexibility and ability needed to respond to future growth.\r\n<blockquote>“They bring in a level of expertise that would be difficult to procure in-house. 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KFR was considering investing in their first storage area network and knew this could be an opportunity to take their IT infrastructure to the next level, as well as build a foundation to take their service offerings to the next level.\n\nSolution:\n\neGroup stepped in to consult KFR and navigate them through the upgrade.  eGroup provided technology demo’s and test equipment to help reassure KFR that the direction they were heading would be successful.  eGroup helped implement virtualization through VMWare’s product line. which allowed KFR to maximize and consolidate server density into existing hardware as well as create a solid foundation for all current disaster recovery strategies.\n\nResults\n\nKFR achieved two goals by building the infrastructure for advanced services they can offer to their clients as well as stabilizing their IT infrastructure.  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Solution: Working with eGroup allowed Horry Electric to get their virtual data center and other infrastructure projects up and running faster than if they had worked in house. “I was skeptical about the amount of work they wanted to do in a short amount of time. But we were able to get it all accomplished in less time than they expected. Totally blew us away.” – IT Manager, Horry Electric Cooperative “With their expertise at our disposal, it is like having additional staff on hand. They have never made us feel like we were just another client. 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Solution: Though AgFirst was not contracted for reactive support at the time, eGroup responded immediately and helped identify the root of the system error. “eGroup has proven that they can deliver enterprise solutions in a very large environment. 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For a diverse legal and business challenge solutions firm backed by data matrices, MGC needed an IT solution to meet the technology demands of their rapid growth while minimizing cost. Solution: eGroup quickly stepped in with guidance on industry standards for a young enterprise environment such as MGC, and helped set up EMC storage with increased information technology capacity, VMWare virtualization and Citrix remote connectivity. “We called around to other companies to see who they used and over and over the name eGroup was given. 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Challenge: The most recent and possibly most challenging issue that eGroup assisted Piedmont with was a severe performance problem related to the electronic health record system. eGroup dove into the issue and found that the organization was oversubscribing the virtual Citrix environment, which in turn caused severe problems for the end users. Had it continued, the issues would have severely limited or completely stopped the implementation of the electronic health record. The compelling event was the reduced effectiveness Piedmont’s providers had in providing services to patients. Solution: In addition to fixing the Citrix environment issue, eGroup provides engineering and data center design support along with strategic and tactical planning. eGroup provides support for VMware which has allowed Piedmont to keep pace with user needs while maintaining a smaller server and data center footprint. “I would simply say that they do the work you need and do it very well.”- Director of IT at Piedmont Healthcare Results: eGroup’s services have allowed Piedmont to provide a…','','','publish','open','open','','4440','','','2012-05-02 15:51:30','2012-05-02 15:51:30','',26,'http://www.levelwing.com/egroup-us.com/?p=4440',23,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6135,2,'2012-03-07 14:18:10','2012-03-07 14:18:10','<strong>March/April 2012 (<a href=\"http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1103755119754-229/eGroup+PDF+newsletter+0212.pdf\">PDF Version</a>)</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.itnewsletter.net/newsletters/index.cfm?cid=120&amp;sid=2383\">Powerful Resource</a></strong> eGroup supports Horry Electric’s IT team through sound advice and cutting-edge technical expertise.</li>\r\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.itnewsletter.net/newsletters/index.cfm?cid=120&amp;sid=2381\">High Five!</a></strong> VMware vSphere 5 and View 5 help organizations develop a robust, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure and support a sophisticated desktop-as-a-service experience across the extended enterprise.</li>\r\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.itnewsletter.net/newsletters/index.cfm?cid=120&amp;sid=2382\">Data Center Building Blocks</a></strong> Virtual Computing Environment coalition delivers business-ready IT infrastructure packages that accelerate pervasive virtualization and private cloud infrastructures.</li>\r\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.itnewsletter.net/newsletters/index.cfm?cid=120&amp;sid=2384\">Analyzing ‘Big Data’</a></strong> Next-generation business analytics tools can deliver insight, competitive advantage.</li>\r\n</ul>','eGroup Advantage Newsletters','','inherit','open','open','','6105-revision-v1','','','2012-03-07 14:18:10','2012-03-07 14:18:10','',6105,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6105-revision-12',0,'revision','',0),(4441,8,'2011-06-10 16:51:43','2011-06-10 16:51:43','The law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough provides a broad range of high-end legal services nationwide. 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KFR was considering investing in their first storage area network and knew this could be an opportunity to take their IT infrastructure to the next level, as well as build a foundation to take their service offerings to the next level.\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\neGroup stepped in to consult KFR and navigate them through the upgrade.  eGroup provided technology demo’s and test equipment to help reassure KFR that the direction they were heading would be successful.  eGroup helped implement virtualization through VMWare’s product line. which allowed KFR to maximize and consolidate server density into existing hardware as well as create a solid foundation for all current disaster recovery strategies.\n<blockquote>“If you are looking for a company that provides sophisticated IT services and has experience with the full breadth of enterprise IT solutions, then eGroup is the best, local company to meet those needs and help take your IT infrastructure to the next level.” – Director of Finance &amp; IT at KFR Services</blockquote>\n<h3>Results:</h3>\nKFR achieved two goals by building the infrastructure for advanced services they can offer to their clients as well as stabilizing their IT infrastructure.  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Each phase incorporates industry best practices along with the real-world experience of eGroup’s top-notch engineering team.\r\n\r\nWe can handle any project from start to finish or take on just those components that the customer needs help with. Our goal is to be indispensible to our customers in terms of the information we provide. 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Simply put, eGroup is a visionary company with the ability to execute swiftly in a rapidly changing information technology landscape.\r\n\r\nDesigning and deploying innovative and cost-effective technology solutions that enable customers to achievea competitive advantage keeps eGroup prominently on the forefront of technology – especially as the industry shifts to the uncharted new territory of cloud computing and secure application and information delivery. As users demand consumer-style access to data and applications on any device, anywhere, at any time, theeGroup vSpecialist Team, staffed with experts in both private and public cloud technologies, are designing and delivering these solutions.   Our solutions drive our customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, or customer service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security.\r\n\r\neGroup’sexpertiseand core competence is focused in three distinct areas: Cloud Services [link](public and private), Application Services [link], and End-User Computing [link].  To deliver these solutions, eGroup has strategic partnerships with IT Industry leaders that include VMware, Cisco, and EMC, along with Citrix, Microsoft, and Trend Micro.\r\n\r\nWith the proliferation of end user devices like iPads, iPhones, Droids, MacBooks, and Blackberrys, executives are demanding secure access to their applications and data while also expecting optimal performance.  eGroup is unique in our ability to deliver these services rapidly to our customers.  We excel in our ability to deliver information technology solutions as quickly as executives define the need for them.\r\n\r\n<blockquote>eGroup reduces the complexity of our customer’s  IT environments, while dramatically lowering costs and enabling a flexible, agile IT service delivery model that better supports both users and business needs.</blockquote>\r\n\r\neGroup provides a comprehensive portfolio of solutions spanning cloud infrastructure and management, cloud application platforms, and end-user computing, supporting and accelerating cloud adoption with our customers.  Moving beyond current IT limitations to accelerate IT in turn accelerates meaningful results for your businesses.\r\n\r\nOur guiding principles are values that dictate how we conduct the business of eGroup and interact with one another and our customers:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Sense of Urgency – “Do it now”</li>\r\n	<li>Thought Leadership – “5 minutes in planning saves 15 in the field”</li>\r\n	<li>Responsibility – “The right way is not always the easy way”</li>\r\n	<li>Innovation – “Faster, Better, Cheaper”</li>\r\n	<li>Vision – “Seeing and advising on the road ahead”</li>\r\n	<li>Execution – “Delivering what we said we would deliver”</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nLooking for an IT partner that will give your business a competitive advantage?  Get to know us.  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We typically let our work and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/featured-case-studies\" target=\"_blank\">customers speak</a> to our strengths as an IT solutions provider. But, it\'s not everyday that a private company receives the recognition of such a prestigious outlet like <em>Inc. </em>Magazine.\r\n\r\nSo we wanted to share with you the release announcing our placement on this year\'s list. In fact, eGroup ranked as the largest South Carolina-based IT Services provider to be represented on the list. Not too shabby!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Building a successful IT solutions and services firm is challenging. Understanding that in order to grow consistently and effectively, a business needs to continually adapt, especially in our space, is an entirely different challenge. That said, the team at eGroup believes we\'re incredibly well positioned as the industry moves through the current transformative period of technology delivery and innovation. But don\'t just take our word for it, listen toInc.and our customers!</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>eGroup Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>eGroup Ranks No. 3043 on the 2012 Inc. 500|5000 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 71%<em></em></em></p>\r\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – August 23, 2012</strong> – <em>Inc.</em> magazine today ranked <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a> No. 3043 on its sixth annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation\'s fastest-growing private companies. eGroup is the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services. According to the data, eGroup ranks as the largest South Carolina-based IT Services provider to be represented on the list.\r\n\r\nThe list represents a comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs.\r\n\r\n“I am delighted that <em>Inc. </em>has recognized eGroup’s consistent and impressive growth over the past several years, and we’re honored to be a part of such a successful community of business leaders,” said Mike Carter, Principal, eGroup. “The IT industry is facing an enormous transformative period which challenges those in our space who haven’t properly adapted. <em>Inc.’s </em>recognition of eGroup as a progressive and attentive application and cloud services provider is refreshing - and accurately reflects our focus on helping customers achieve more with less.”\r\n\r\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>.\r\n\r\n\"Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500|5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward.  Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is,” says <em>Inc</em>. 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SEFL made its first delivery 60+ years ago but maintains the same mission for each associate today: to meet or exceed the needs of every customer – every single time.\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\nNearly every process with SEFL relies on some form of service technology or internet connectivity, so when a major computer outage occurred in 2006, SEFL needed a knowledgeable partner to bring several systems such as Citrix, VMWare and Microsoft back online to avoid a potentially catastrophic event.\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\nSoutheastern Freight Lines relies on eGroup for information technology consulting services such as planning and implementation, farm server growth and management, and health checks of various IT systems.\n<blockquote>“eGroup has been a long standing partner with SEFL and is highly trusted in our organization. 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After multiple server crashes, Okonite looked to eGroup to improve internal systems and avoid future outages.\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\nThrough the virtualization of Okonite’s server environment, eGroup was able to provide high availability and reliability of their IT environment.\n<blockquote>“eGroup is flexible and has expressed a sense of urgency in addressing our needs.”- Sr. Industrial Engineer, Okonite Company</blockquote>\n<h3>Results</h3>\nOkonite continues to use eGroup for network and server infrastructure support in order to more efficiently provide manufacturing management and quality improvement within their company.\n\n&nbsp;','The Okonite Company','','inherit','open','open','','4419-autosave','','','2011-06-10 20:35:25','2011-06-10 20:35:25','',4419,'http://www.levelwing.com/egroup-us.com/4419-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(4462,8,'2011-06-10 16:34:19','2011-06-10 16:34:19','MCAngus, Goudelocke and Courie, LLC provides data driven legal services to a diverse Client list.  The firm attracts Clients from across the business spectrum and is committed to a strong work ethic and uncompromising Client services.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\nMCAngus, Goudelocke and Courie, LLC experienced rapid growth between 2004 and 2007, expanding from a 45 attorney law firm with three locations to a 100+ attorney firm with six locations.  For a diverse legal and business challenge solutions firm backed by data matrices, MGC needed an IT solution to meet the technology demands of their rapid growth while minimizing cost.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\neGroup quickly stepped in with guidance on industry standards for a young enterprise environment such as MGC, and helped set up EMC storage with increased information technology capacity, VMWare virtualization and Citrix remote connectivity.\r\n<blockquote>“We called around to other companies to see who they used and over and over the name eGroup was given. After the first meeting, I knew they had the knowledge and staff to meet our needs.”- IT Director, MCAngus, Goudelocke and Courie</blockquote>\r\n<h3>Results</h3>\r\nBy focusing on the long term business goals rather than just the technology solution, eGroup has given MCAngus, Goudelocke and Courie the ability to meet last minute IT demands such as paperless projects and legal retentions, and provided them with an advanced storage solution that can grow with the company.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','McAngus Goudelocke & Courie','','inherit','open','open','','4413-revision-3','','','2011-06-10 16:34:19','2011-06-10 16:34:19','',4413,'http://www.levelwing.com/egroup-us.com/4413-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(4463,8,'2011-06-10 16:28:47','2011-06-10 16:28:47','The law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley &amp; Scarborough provides a broad range of high-end legal services nationwide.  One of Nelson Mullins’ strengths is to be able to utilize technology to make business processes efficient and help maintain costs to Clients by streamlining resources.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\nNelson Mullins was consistently finding applications to help streamline and improve services, but every application seemed to require its own server.  Having numerous hardware-based servers began to clutter the system.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\neGroup helped Nelson Mullins adopt virtualization at a very early age to help reduce hardware.\r\n<blockquote>“eGroup has assisted our organization with our”cloud” before having a ”cloud” was cool. 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Having numerous hardware-based servers began to clutter the system.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\neGroup helped Nelson Mullins adopt virtualization at a very early age to help reduce hardware.\r\n<blockquote>“eGroup has assisted our organization with our”cloud” before having a ”cloud” was cool. They have been on the cutting edge of technology often before it becomes mainstream, but their vision has been instrumental in our adoption of these technologies before they become buzzwords.”-Network Manager at Nelson Mullins</blockquote>\r\n<h3>Results:</h3>\r\nThe implementation of eGroup’s virtualization solution streamlined the servers needed, ultimately reducing wait time for new hardware and increasing efficiencies.  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Had it continued, the issues would have severely limited or completely stopped the implementation of the electronic health record.  The compelling event was the reduced effectiveness Piedmont’s providers had in providing services to patients.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\nIn addition to fixing the Citrix environment issue, eGroup provides engineering and data center design support along with strategic and tactical planning.  eGroup provides support for VMware which has allowed Piedmont to keep pace with user needs while maintaining a smaller server and data center footprint.\r\n<blockquote>“I would simply say that they do the work you need and do it very well.”- Director of IT at Piedmont Healthcare</blockquote>\r\n<h3>Results:</h3>\r\neGroup’s services have allowed Piedmont to provide a reliable, efficient and consistent platform of applications to end users.  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SEFL made its first delivery 60+ years ago but maintains the same mission for each associate today: to meet or exceed the needs of every customer – every single time.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\nNearly every process with SEFL relies on some form of service technology or internet connectivity, so when a major computer outage occurred in 2006, SEFL needed a knowledgeable partner to bring several systems such as Citrix, VMWare and Microsoft back online to avoid a potentially catastrophic event.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\nSoutheastern Freight Lines relies on eGroup for information technology consulting services such as planning and implementation, farm server growth and management, and health checks of various IT systems.\r\n<blockquote>“eGroup has been a long standing partner with SEFL and is highly trusted in our organization. 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KFR was considering investing in their first storage area network and knew this could be an opportunity to take their IT infrastructure to the next level, as well as build a foundation to take their service offerings to the next level.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\neGroup stepped in to consult KFR and navigate them through the upgrade.  eGroup provided technology demo’s and test equipment to help reassure KFR that the direction they were heading would be successful.  eGroup helped implement virtualization through VMWare’s product line. which allowed KFR to maximize and consolidate server density into existing hardware as well as create a solid foundation for all current disaster recovery strategies.\r\n<blockquote>“If you are looking for a company that provides sophisticated IT services and has experience with the full breadth of enterprise IT solutions, then eGroup is the best, local company to meet those needs and help take your IT infrastructure to the next level.” – Director of Finance &amp; IT at KFR Services</blockquote>\r\n<h3>Results:</h3>\r\nKFR achieved two goals by building the infrastructure for advanced services they can offer to their clients as well as stabilizing their IT infrastructure.  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No, your cloud!</strong>\r\n\r\nIn a business world where the fast eat the slow,and where IT is central to every decision, IT responsiveness and agility are what ultimately provide a competitive edge. Yet many organizations aren’t quick enough on the uptake because their IT infrastructures are too cumbersome to manage and too complex to easily adapt.\r\n\r\nCloud computing provides a vastly more efficient, flexible, and cost-effective way for IT to meet escalating business needs: IT as a service.  eGroup offers you an evolutionary and practical path to this new model, with solutions that harness the power of the cloud while ensuring security and preserving the value of your existing technology investments.\r\n\r\n\r\neGroup’s custom-assembled Cloud Infrastructure Platforms are optimized for a wide range of virtualized and traditional solution deployments. eGroup platforms integrate best-of-breed technology from industry leaders Cisco, EMC, and VMware, backed by eGroup\'s seamless best-in-class support. 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It’s about moving your business forward with your cloud.\r\n\r\n<strong>At eGroup, we believe that your cloud needs to be:</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Designed for the specific needs of each enterprise—not a “one-loud-fits-all” approach like most cloud offerings.</li>\r\n	<li>Uniquely aligned to each enterprise’s business and its approach to IT</li>\r\n	<li>Able to leverage the investment in existing IT resources</li>\r\n	<li>Flexible enough to securely use both on- and off-premise resources</li>\r\n	<li>An incremental, not wholesale, change</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Key use cases:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Solutions for running critical business applications with higher reliability, at lower cost</li>\r\n	<li>Solutions to help bring enterprise capabilities to cloud computing—security, quality of service, portability and choice</li>\r\n	<li>Zero-touch infrastructure management to dramatically reduce operational cost and increase reliability</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;','Cloud Solutions',' Intelligent, scalable, cost-effective virtual infrastructures for enterprise class requirements in data center computing, storage, networking, and data protection.','inherit','open','open','','30-revision-20','','','2011-06-10 16:20:22','2011-06-10 16:20:22','',30,'http://egroup-us.levelwing.com/30-revision-20',0,'revision','',0),(4478,8,'2011-06-10 16:00:52','2011-06-10 16:00:52','Solutions for end-user application access–anytime, anywhere, on any device.  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What are these forces of change? One of them is the new world of heterogeneous devices, their disparate operating systems and application platforms. It’s clearly no longer a Windows-only world. To drive this reality home, one only has to go into a business meeting or get on an airplane and count the number of iPads. The days when IT was able to rigidly enforce client-side device standardization are gone forever.\r\n\r\nIs your infrastructure ready to support the wave of portable devices out there in the market today?  Can you deploy your applications to any device anywhere?  If you can\'t answer these questions, eGroup can help you answer them, and find out if your infrastructure can support new application delivery services to any End-User Device—whether it’s an iPad, Droid, Mac, or Windows device.\r\n\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','End-User Computing','Solutions for end-user application access–anytime, anywhere, on any device. 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These cooperatives, operating as Farm Credit and Ag Credit agricultural credit associations, provide real estate and production financing to 80,000 farmers, agribusinesses, and rural homeowners.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\neGroup had been providing proactive design, security systems and consulting services for AgFirst up until 2010 when a system error occurred in the IT infrastructure, seriously threatening performance.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\nThough AgFirst was not contracted for reactive support at the time, eGroup responded immediately and helped identify the root of the system error.\r\n<blockquote>“eGroup has proven that they can deliver enterprise solutions in a very large environment. 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One of Nelson Mullins’ strengths is to be able to utilize technology to make business processes efficient and help maintain costs to Clients by streamlining resources.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\nNelson Mullins was consistently finding applications to help streamline and improve services, but every application seemed to require its own server.  Having numerous hardware-based servers began to clutter the system.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\neGroup helped Nelson Mullins adopt virtualization at a very early age to help reduce hardware.\r\n<blockquote>“eGroup has assisted our organization with our”cloud” before having a ”cloud” was cool. 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Piedmont Healthcare is one of the largest physician-owned and directed groups in North Carolina and the Southeast region.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\nThe most recent and possibly most challenging issue that eGroup assisted Piedmont with was a severe performance problem related to the electronic health record system. eGroup dove into the issue and found that the organization was oversubscribing the virtual Citrix environment, which in turn caused severe problems for the end users.  Had it continued, the issues would have severely limited or completely stopped the implementation of the electronic health record.  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After multiple server crashes, Okonite looked to eGroup to improve internal systems and avoid future outages.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\nThrough the virtualization of Okonite’s server environment, eGroup was able to provide high availability and reliability of their IT environment.\r\n<blockquote>“eGroup is flexible and has expressed a sense of urgency in addressing our needs.”- Sr. Industrial Engineer, Okonite Company</blockquote>\r\n<h3>Results</h3>\r\nOkonite continues to use eGroup for network and server infrastructure support in order to more efficiently provide manufacturing management and quality improvement within their company.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','The Okonite Company','','inherit','open','open','','4419-revision-3','','','2011-06-10 20:37:59','2011-06-10 20:37:59','',4419,'http://egroup-us.levelwing.com/4419-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(4489,8,'2011-06-10 20:37:43','2011-06-10 20:37:43','<a href=\"http://www.sefl.com/seflWebsite/index.jsp\">Southeastern Freight Lines (SEFL)</a> and its team of 6,600 associates provide transportation services and shipping solutions. 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SEFL made its first delivery 60+ years ago but maintains the same mission for each associate today: to meet or exceed the needs of every customer – every single time.\r\n<h3>Challenge:</h3>\r\nNearly every process with SEFL relies on some form of service technology or internet connectivity, so when a major computer outage occurred in 2006, SEFL needed a knowledgeable partner to bring several systems such as Citrix, VMWare and Microsoft back online to avoid a potentially catastrophic event.\r\n<h3>Solution:</h3>\r\nSoutheastern Freight Lines relies on eGroup for information technology consulting services such as planning and implementation, farm server growth and management, and health checks of various IT systems.\r\n<blockquote>“eGroup has been a long standing partner with SEFL and is highly trusted in our organization. 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Simply put, eGroup is a visionary company with the ability to execute swiftly in a rapidly changing information technology landscape.\r\n\r\nDesigning and deploying innovative and cost-effective technology solutions that enable customers to achieve a competitive advantage keeps eGroup prominently on the forefront of technology – especially as the industry shifts to the uncharted new territory of cloud computing and secure application and information delivery.\r\neGroup reduces the complexity of our customer’s  IT environments, while dramatically lowering costs and enabling a flexible, agile IT service delivery model that better supports both users and business needs. \r\nAs users demand consumer-style access to data and applications on any device, anywhere, at any time, the eGroup vSpecialist Team, staffed with experts in both private and public cloud technologies, are designing and delivering these solutions.   Our solutions drive our customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, or customer service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security.\r\n\r\neGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: Cloud Services [link](public and private), Application Services [link], and End-User Computing [link].  To deliver these solutions, eGroup has strategic partnerships with IT Industry leaders that include VMware, Cisco, and EMC, along with Citrix, Microsoft, and Trend Micro.\r\n\r\nWith the proliferation of end user devices like iPads, iPhones, Droids, MacBooks and Blackberrys, executives are demanding secure access to their applications and data while also expecting optimal performance.  eGroup is unique in our ability to deliver these services rapidly to our customers.  We excel in our ability to deliver information technology solutions as quickly as executives define the need for them.\r\n\r\neGroup provides a comprehensive portfolio of solutions spanning cloud infrastructure and management, cloud application platforms, and end-user computing, supporting and accelerating cloud adoption with our customers.  Moving beyond current IT limitations to accelerate IT in turn accelerates meaningful results for your businesses.\r\n\r\nOur guiding principles are values that dictate how we conduct the business of eGroup and interact with one another and our customers:\r\n\r\n	Sense of Urgency – “Do it now”\r\n	Thought Leadership – “5 minutes in planning saves 15 in the field”\r\n	Responsibility – “The right way is not always the easy way”\r\n	Innovation – “Faster, Better, Cheaper”\r\n	Vision – “Seeing and advising on the road ahead”\r\n	Execution – “Delivering what we said we would deliver”\r\n\r\nLooking for an IT partner that will give your business a competitive advantage?  Get to know us.  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No, your cloud!\r\n\r\nIn a business world where the fast eat the slow,and where IT is central to every decision, IT responsiveness and agility are what ultimately provide a competitive edge. 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This will increase productivity, flexibility and agility without compromising security and operational efficiency.\r\n\r\n\r\n	“Any application, Any device, Anywhere” Solutions\r\n	iPad, iPhone, MacBook, Thin Client, Zero Client, Tablet, PC, etc.\r\n	Information Liberation and Mobility Services\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEnd-User Freedom.  IT Control.\r\n\r\n\r\nEnd-user computing is creating a modern user-centric approach to personal computing that delivers secure access to applications and data from any device, anywhere and when a user needs it.  Enabling freedom of choice of devices for end users, while making it easier for IT to provision and securely manage users and sensitive data.\r\n\r\n\r\nA lot has been made about the profound changes Cloud computing has been making to IT and the way services are delivered. Less has been said about how many of these same changes and trends are very much influencing the world of end-user computing. What are these forces of change? One of them is the new world of heterogeneous devices, their disparate operating systems and application platforms. It’s clearly no longer a Windows-only world. To drive this reality home, one only has to go into a business meeting or get on an airplane and count the number of iPads. The days when IT was able to rigidly enforce client-side device standardization are gone forever.\r\n\r\nIs your infrastructure ready to support the wave of portable devices out there in the market today?  Can you deploy your applications to any device anywhere?  If you can’t answer these questions, eGroup can help you answer them, and find out if your infrastructure can support new application delivery services to any End-User Device—whether it’s an iPad, Droid, Mac, or Windows device.\r\n\r\n\r\n ','','','publish','open','open','','4545','','','2011-08-05 18:27:13','2011-08-05 18:27:13','',28,'http://egroup-us.levelwing.com/?p=4545',6,'nav_menu_item','',0),(4550,8,'2011-06-29 21:03:48','2011-06-29 21:03:48','EDITOR NOTE: Needs content or we can temporarily remove until content is developed.','Our Team','','inherit','open','open','','9-revision-6','','','2011-06-29 21:03:48','2011-06-29 21:03:48','',9,'http://egroup-us.levelwing.com/9-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(4546,8,'2011-07-27 20:06:41','2011-07-27 20:06:41',' ','','','publish','open','open','','4546','','','2011-07-27 20:07:13','2011-07-27 20:07:13','',0,'http://egroup-us.levelwing.com/?p=4546',2,'nav_menu_item','',0),(4547,8,'2011-07-27 20:06:41','2011-07-27 20:06:41',' ','','','publish','open','open','','4547','','','2011-07-27 20:07:13','2011-07-27 20:07:13','',0,'http://egroup-us.levelwing.com/?p=4547',3,'nav_menu_item','',0),(4548,8,'2011-07-27 20:06:41','2011-07-27 20:06:41',' ','','','publish','open','open','','4548','','','2011-07-27 20:07:13','2011-07-27 20:07:13','',0,'http://egroup-us.levelwing.com/?p=4548',4,'nav_menu_item','',0),(4549,8,'2011-07-27 20:07:07','2011-07-27 20:07:07',' ','All Categories','blog','publish','open','open','','all-categories','','','2011-07-27 20:07:13','2011-07-27 20:07:13','',0,'http://egroup-us.levelwing.com/?p=4549',1,'nav_menu_item','',0),(4552,8,'2011-06-23 14:54:05','2011-06-23 14:54:05','Intelligent, scalable, cost-effective virtual infrastructures for enterprise class requirements in data center computing, storage, networking, and data protection.\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>VCE Vblock Infrastructure Packages</li>\r\n	<li>EMC Storage, Backup, Replication &amp; Recovery</li>\r\n	<li> Cisco Unified Computing and Network Infrastructure</li>\r\n	<li>VMware Virtualization and Your Cloud Computing</li>\r\n	<li>eGroup\'seCloud Hosted Infrastructure</li>\r\n	<li>Systems Consultation &amp; Engineering Services</li>\r\n	<li>Product Procurement &amp; Logistics</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<strong>Public cloud?Private cloud?  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