I have been migrating many clients over to Office 365 lately. Every so often Outlook will have a problem making the initial connection. Microsoft has created a nice tool that can fix many of the issues. It’s worth a shot. The free download is available at this link HTTPS://diagnostics.office.com ITFixed it for me many times […]
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What is using all of my disk space?
What is using all of my disk space? This is a question I get asked often. While the answer can vary greatly depending on what you do with your computer, the following app can show you in detail where the disk space is being used. (screen shot from Jam-Software website) TreeSize free (download from https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/features.shtml […]
How to have Device Manager show non pres...
Here are a few small commands that a colleague of mine showed me. These commands will start the Windows Device Manager and allow you to see devices that have been removed from the system. This can come in handy if you P2V (Convert a Physical machine to a Virtual machine). the Virtual hardware will be using […]
10 Useful Linux Commands
It seems that most of my linux command posts are more popular than the others so I have decided to put a list together of some of the most popular linux command line posts. Please post a comment if you would like me to add something. How to view Swap Information on Linux Gathering Linux […]
How to add a Swap Partition
These steps will create an additional swap partition on your system. 1. Create swap partition (This example uses IDE 2nd drive (/dev/hdb), 2nd partition). Use n command and make partition. Change ID to 82 by using t command.At a command prompt type fdisk /dev/hdb 2. Make swap space using mkswap. At a command prompt type […]
Gathering Linux DIsk I/O Stats
Here is a small Linux command that I have used frequently to look at disk performance on some of my Linux servers. iostat -xdkt 30 360 >> iostat-results.txt The above command will start a program called iostat and gather extended attributes for all disks on a machine every 30 seconds for 360 iterations and then […]
Top Free Software Download Sites
Here is a list of what I believe to the Best Free Software Download sites. www.download.com – One of the best I have found to get free software. Sorted by many categories and has lists for most popular and highest ranked. www.filehippo.com – Another of the best sites to get free software. Sorted by many […]
DOS to NIX text format
For those of you that have ever created a text file on windows and then transfered to a Unix or Linux system you may have run into a problem with the text format. A text file created in DOS or windows may have a different file format than what Unix or Linux likes. The file […]
Too many Zombies???
Ever run a “top” command on a linux machine and notice a number of “zombie processes”? Zombies are already dead processes that you really cant get rid of without a reboot.Ususally they are harmless and take almost no resources. To view what process ids are the zombies you can use this command from a command […]
How to view SWAP information on Linux
Here is a small utility I have used to check the amount of swap space on linux machines. Generally you would like to have 1 to 1.5 times the amount of swap space as you have RAM. On a linux machine you can check the swap values with the following command run from a command […]