Parallels Plesk 11.5 to 12 Upgrade Problems
After recently upgrading a Windows 2008 R2 web server from Parallels 11.5 to Parallels 12, I ran in to a series of fairly serious issues that I thought I would document here in the hopes that it might ...
Category Archives: IT Support & Networking
Parallels Plesk 12 Review on Production Server
I finally decided to bite the bullet today and update one of our live web servers to Parallels Plesk 12 (12.0.18) – despite having evaluated it and now being a “Parallels Plesk System Admi ...
Pentalobe, Apple Logo and Screwing You Out of Self-Repair
Let me preface this by saying that while I primarily use PCs, for many years I used both Mac and PC (I literally had both on my desktop side by side) and used to work for VistaPapers/VistaPrint whose ...
Accessing a Dell Server via DRAC (iDRAC)
I recently had to access a server via DRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller) for the first time in a very long time and I expected it to be very simple these days but it actually ended up being more of ...
Solving Office (or Outlook) Activation Unspecified Error 0x80070190
While recently installing Outlook on some desktops, I immediately hit a problem with the Microsoft Product activation system, getting a rather unhelpful error message stating “An unspecified Er ...
Solution: Exchange Issues, World Wide Web Publishing Server failed to Start
A power failure recently caused a slew of issues with one of our Small Business Server machines and while I got most of them fixed in fairly short order, I couldn’t get email clients (Outlook or ...
GoDaddy WordPress Hosting So Slow I Moved To Media Temple
So anyone that follows my blog may have noticed that my site was painfully slow or completely inaccessible for the past 36 hours – the truth is I have no explanation for the cause of the problem ...
GoDaddy Support Ticket and Support by Email Suspended
GoDaddy have put the final nails in their own coffin I suspect – despite some pretty horrific technical glitches and some questionable activities by their founder, I continued to use and recomme ...
Review of Career Academy Online Learning System
Very Important Update March 2016 I wanted to pass along another update about CareerAcademy. They have recently launched a brand new membership platform that includes access to all of their courses (IT ...
Juniper Products Affected by Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability
Updated 29th April 2014. Some of Juniper Networks products are susceptible to the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability, Juniper have released updates to patch all of these and you should update your produ ...