There are some organization changes. Some bosses are moving between the Mothership (not the news) and mine. New blood (hires) injected.
Deploying Cisco stacked switches
Deploying Cisco stacked switches fresh from the box.
Working in a COVID-19 world.
COVID-19 is a contagious coronavirus that is now classified as an pandemic. We will need to put bread on the table, so some changes are required.
MS Projects: “The calendar name does not exist. Click a calendar in the list, and then press enter.”
I got this weird pop message from Microsoft Projects 2016 about calendar does not exist. Multiple projects hanging off a resource pool file. There is only one calendar and it is the standard one with a few holidays. Use the…
How to print a wide email on A4 paper?
You want to print a wide email on your home printer with A4 paper.
Sometimes you have to push through
Sometimes you just have to push through the mountain of problems. Another Subcon requested for a joint testing and commissioning session. They have arranged for the appropriate people to be present for this 1 am activity. I turned up, but…
How to use Outlook better!
This is a collection of tricks that I have found to use Outlook better
Failover your cluster regularly
Once upon a time, on my first day of work, the Exchange cluster died. A two-node Exchange server for some 2000 mailboxes just keeled over and died.
Testing E1 links with BERT
Testing E1 links with BERT, instead of installing a loopback and furiously refreshing to check on the counters.
Going to the cloud
I was using an Excel spreadsheet to track my projects. Sometimes I forget to save and my changes are lost. Or the file got corrupted because I did not close Excel properly. Then I will get version problems. The most…