Mountain Biking in Colorado
This Saturday, several members of the Tech Team headed to Erie, Colorado with their bikes to get out in this awesome Spring weather. Ben, Matt, Ryan & Brandon rolled through the amazing scenery of the front range of the Rocky Mountains. There were vistas, there were views and there certainly were vistas of views. They talked about technology for zero minutes.
RMTT Hosted Backup Guide
RMTT Hosted Backup is powered by Code42 CrashPlan. Interface App Overview Menu Bar Overview Mac Guide Windows Guide Configuring Getting Started What Should You Backup? Changing the File Selection Using Backup Sets Using Include And Exclude Filters Monitoring Restoring Files Backup Status Report Archive Maintenance
Windows Server 2012 – NIC Teaming slow read speeds
In 2012 (and R2) you may get slow read speeds with the NIC's teamed, but write speeds are fine (use lanspeedtest lite to test speeds) To fix this go to each NIC properties, click the configure button, click advanced and set these options to DISABLED: largesend offload V2(ipv4) largesend offload V2(ipv6) Vm queues TCP/UDP Checksum offload (ipv4) TCP/UDP checksum offload (ipv6) This should take effect instantly. Reference Highpointe Dental (highpointe-dc01) if needed
Happy New Year from RMTT!
A huge thank you to all our clients who helped make 2016 our best year yet! We enjoy working with you and hope you're excited for a fresh year to jump into next week. For the first time in a long time, we had the entire team together in one room with their significant others for our 2016 holiday party and white elephant gift exchange. Held at Dunbar Kitchen & Tap House in Five Points, we [...]
Updates to CrashPlan
Some of you may notice a recent change to the way CrashPlan looks. We recently rolled out a major update to the CrashPlan interface, causing icons and the user interface of the program to look differently. Before, you may have noticed this icon in your system tray And this icon if you are on a Mac That icon now looks like this, and will either be grey or orange The interface has also changed. [...]
Spotify Desktop App Causing Trouble
We've been getting reports and have seen first hand where the Spotify application for Windows is very aggressively and unnecessarily writing data to local hard drives. This can significantly slow down your computer, cause your hard drive to die sooner than it would otherwise (especially with Solid State Drives). We recommend removing the Spotify application all together (you can still stream from spotify.com without the application installed), or upgrade to the most recent version. Please [...]
pfSense – Factory Reset or Flash a Broken pfSense
Factory Reset With Reset button Power on PFsense and wait 10 seconds and push in reset button and hold until pfsense resets (about 30 Seconds). Through Console Need a mini USB cable Plug in mini USB cable to powered on Pfsense and install Windows drivers (driver for Netgate: https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers) Identify the COM port of the pfsense when you plug it in via mini USB in the Device Manager (devmgmt.msc). It should look something like this [COM3 in our [...]
RMTT Happy Hour: Liquid Mechanics
August's Social Happy Hour was at Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co. in Lafayette, Colorado. Liquid Mechanics was founded by three friends and former biotech/pharmaceutical professionals. They grew tired of the corporate world and decided it was time to strike out on their own, using the skills and standards for quality they developed over the years. Ethan, Eric, Kelli, Patty, Ben, Jessica, Stephanie and Dennis all had a great evening. Each month the team visits a different front range brewery to catch up with each [...]
Windows Start Menu – FAQs
With the compromise of Classic Shell, you may have been reverted back to the native Windows start menu, here are some frequently asked questions about the Windows start menu Where is my start menu now and how does it work? The start menu can be accessed by clicking the Windows icon in the bottom left of your screen Start Menus: Windows 8 and Windows 10 Windows 8 Start Menu Windows 10 Start [...]
RMTT Happy Hour: Cerebral Brewing
July's Social Happy Hour was at Cerebral Brewing in downtown Denver, Colorado. Cerebral Brewing takes a scientific approach to brewing over a broad spectrum of styles. Jordan Sisk, TJ Bishop, Ben Taylor & Dennis Niedfeldt from RMTT had a great time with Hannah, Jason, Kellie, Brian, Stephanie (Dennis' wife), Molly, Emily & Mandy. Dennis did his best to get the group hooked on Pokemon Go while Jordan, Ben and TJ talked over their clients' experiences [...]
Synology – Automate Data Scrubs
Control Panel > Task Scheduler > Create > RAID Scrubbing > Define/Save Legacy Solution: Login Go to Control Panel > Task Scheduler Click Create > Scheduled Task > User-Defined-Script Under General: Name Task and set user to root Under Schedule: Configure as desired (once/week/month should be enough) Under Task Settings set e-mail so you know if it doesn't run. If you want to get notified anytime it runs leave Send run details only when [...]
RMTT Mail Services Spam Filter Is Changing
Beginning summer of 2016, RMTT will be transitioning the back end of its Mail Services platform to ProofPoint. This will have very little impact on you as the end user as we will be migrating your existing whitelist/blacklists from the prior platform. The biggest change will be the email you receive to let you know that you have something in your quarantine. The new email (shown below) has 2 actions: 'Release' and 'Release & Approve'. [...]
RMTT Happy Hour: 12Degree Brewing
This month's happy hour was at 12Degree Brewing in Louisville, Colorado. The founder, Jon, brewed Belgian-style beers and when he traveled to Belgium found each town had it's own brewery that became a gathering place for neighbors, friends and families. He looked to create the same kind of atmosphere here and Louisville felt like the perfect fit. Dennis, Caleb, Michele, Jeff, Matt, Joanie, Eric, and Eric's wife, Kelli all made it out and cooled off [...]
Community Shares Summer Celebration – 30 Years!
Wednesday night, Community Shares celebrated their 30th anniversary at their Summer Celebration event in downtown Denver. Community Shares is a workplace giving campaign allowing businesses to offer employees the ability to donate to a portfolio of non-profits directly from their paychecks. Rocky Mountain Tech Team members who participate in the program were invited to share a table for some drinks, laughs and fun. The event included a silent auction, review of the successes of the last [...]
pfSense – Enable SNMP
Click Services>SNMP Click Enable in the upper right of the SNMP Daemon Section Enter public under read-only community Leave SNMP Traps disabled Check all Modules Set Interface Binding to LAN While you're in here: Go to System>General Setup Change domain to internal domain (ie, rmtechteam.local) Verify timezone is set correctly
