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Moving from Traditional to HCI. While the previous stage was to move servers from physical servers to virtual servers. All of these options exist as-a-service as well with cloud service offerings to varying degrees of management. An HCI solution such as Azure Stack HCI or Nutanex AOS, and VMWare VxRail among others. I feel that […]

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Before doing anything take a backup of the current configuration. Enable consistent NAT & disable security scanning on VOIP server/PBX. Enable consistent NAT (75% improvement in audio quality): Now to get that remaining 25%. Then create a zone for your PBX and disable security scanning services on that device VoIP: Poor quality or calls getting […]

If you have any 2 modern Sonicwalls the feature “ping” will be disabled by your IPS (Intrusion Protection System) settings on your site-to-site tunnel. Remember that one side has to be the primary with a default route of 0.0.0.0 and the other one to point to the public IP address of the primary. To enable […]

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I looked up the transactional and snapshot replication compatibility matrix to see what was necessary to make this work: Server Version SQL Version Windows Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 SQL Server 2014 Windows Server 2016 SQL Server 2017 Windows Server 2019 SQL Server 2019

So, where do I start with this? I found this image in a Spanish YouTube video and I’ve found no other indicator that communicates what everything is for as good as this one: So, if I were to extrapolate this information, you have the PBX (public Branch eXchanger), which is your phone system. The Session […]

With the advent of Windows 10 and the built-in ability to mount an .iso or .img file with Windows explorer when working on older machines it’s important to know that this feature didn’t exist on Windows 7 and previous Windows Operating systems. The feature had to be added via an app. Here is a list […]

This is an exciting feature although the first go-round that Ubiquiti had with their line up wasn’t well received and they didn’t deliver on what the people expected. Now, they are back at it with the 2nd generation line-up of devices. We’ll see how they fare. There is already a competitive phone in the new […]

Found my answer here: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1981159-can-t-ping-sonicwall-across-vpn “You may already know this but just in case, if you would prefer to keep your low priority IPS enabled but still allow ICMP traffic, that is possible.  Under the IPS Policies section, you can set the category drop-down for ICMP and then click the pencil icon.  Once you do […]