A general rule of thumb in virtual environments is to always treat virtual machines the same as you would physical servers. While this rule holds true in many cases, Admins should be aware of some exceptions to this rule. Below I will cover some key things to look for while you are maintaining your infrastructure [...]
Often times at IronTech, we get calls from clients who want to install a new BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Blackberry Professional Software Express (the free version of BES) at their company. Surprisingly, a lot of people run into trouble installing a BES server because of the many steps and prerequisites you have to go through. [...]
If you’re running Sharepoint, I can bet if you try using it in the morning, it takes a good while before the page initially loads up. Then for the rest of the day, every page you hit is lightning fast. This is because the IIS application pool for Sharepoint resets at night between 1AM – [...]
A client called us today requesting help with their PHP website. IronTech normally supports infrastructure and applications but most of us have pretty diverse backgrounds including web development. We’re always willing to help a client and we always love a challenge! The client was trying to parse HTML files as PHP on his Apache webserver. [...]
So with the Virtualization market heating up and alot of questions about trying it out I thought I would post on how to install and configure the Microsoft Hypervisor. Microsoft has made some real advances in their virtualization technology since Virtual Server, which I was not a big fan of, the technology is very comparable [...]
