Become an IT Wizard: Unleash Your Potential With a Home Lab! In my IT career, I have had the pleasure of working with some truly brilliant people and I can’t help but look at them and say I wish I could be an IT wizard too! I learned very quickly that I could be a […]
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As a brand new System Administrator I have a few technical gaps and one of them is my knowledge of storage. I embarked on an adventure learning about storage and I’ve only scratched the surface I am sure of it. In my home lab I have a Dell Precision T7600 Workstation and it has 8
My first role in IT was Field Service Technician. In that role I got exposed to voice over IP (VoIP) and I remember thinking I didn’t really like phones. I have to admit now they are pretty cool. My old company at the time sold PBXact to their customers which is Sangoma’s commercial version of
Lately I have done a really good job at trying to document the fun I have in my home lab environment. My goal is to post a blog on my site at least once a week. However, in the past couple weeks I decided to increase the complexity of the network I have been building
The ways in which computers work in order to communicate across a network is truly amazing. There are so many individual parts that make up network communication and when understood how they all work together, can be appreciated. Two big protocols that have a huge role in ensuring that computers are able to communicate across
In my blog entitled “Inter-VLAN Routing Between Virtual Machines” I created two subnets and made the necessary configuration on the router and in Hyper-V Manager to communicate between hosts in two different VLANs. The configuration works great but there is one glaring limitation – scalability. If I wanted to add more VLANs and assign those
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In my last blog post, I described the process of configuring Inter-VLAN Routing and one of the pieces of hardware in my topology was a Cisco 1941 Series Gen 2 ISR Router with an 8 port Switch module. To be more accurate this 8 port switch module is called an 8 port Gigabit “Ethernet Enhanced
Why Inter-VLAN Routing? VLANs or Virtual Local Area Networks are awesome. They allow you to essentially break up one physical LAN into multiple logical or virtual LANs. When you create a VLAN on a Cisco switch and assign an interface to that VLAN, all hosts in the same VLAN are able to communicate with each
This pfsense box will be the heart of my network. Currently Im using a TP-Link Archer AX50 as my router, switch, and access point. My plan is to make this pfsense box the edge of my network and connect 2 layer 3 switches to it. One switch will manage my home network and the other
Sometimes I really cant believe how great Outlook is now compared to what it once was. Im relatively new to troubleshooting Outlook for business users in a production environment but I just remember years ago as a regular-shmegular consumer being just so displeased with outlook. In a business setting you are likely to run into
