Brian Scheewe

Brian Scheewe is CTO of Advanced Data & Network Solutions. He brings deep technical leadership to the company's work in managed IT, networking, cybersecurity, and infrastructure strategy, with a strong background in industry certifications and hands-on problem solving. Brian writes about practical IT operations, security, and the technical decisions that help businesses build more reliable systems.

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Infrastructure

Enabling jumbo frames in VMware ESX

To get the best performance out of VMware's iSCSI initiator it's a good idea to enable jumbo frames

Virtualization

Handling drive corruption on VMware ESX

Here's a tip if your ESX host freaks out and you happen to be storing a VMFS partition on the

Servers

Finding an HP part number nightmare

Several of our customers recently purchased HP DL180 G6 servers.  They are perfect (and economical) servers for iSCSI storage as they support

Microsoft

Windows 7 Released!!! (to the public)

Woo Hoo!  The floodgates are now open:  starting today, you can officially purchase a retail copy of Windows 7 or an OEM

Exchange

Installing a Unified Communications SSL Certificate for Exchange 2007

Secure communications in an Exchange enterprise messaging environment is critical.  In Exchange 2007, Microsoft introduced the use of Unified Communications (UCC) or

Cisco

Configure QoS for VPN Tunnel on Cisco Router

Class Maps are referenced by Policy Maps, which are then applied to the external interface.  VPN traffic is "pre-classified" before

Microsoft

NtFrs Error 13559 OR When in Doubt, Read the Error

One of our IT support customers was complaining that their "sysvol" share on their Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controllers

Networking

Using VMware Server 1.x to Break Exchange 2007 OWA

Another dumb mistake: installed VMware Server 1.8 on an Exchange 2007 SP1 server with the client access role installed. Instead of

Cisco

Search Cisco NetPro forums from your browser

The Cisco NetPro forum is an excellent resource when searching for answers to Cisco specific issues.  To my knowledge Google doesn'