The two most frequently asked questions we have been asked lately on patch management are: • When will SolarWinds Patch Manager support System Center Configuration Manager 2012? • How long does it take for the Patch Manager team to turn around a package after the ISV has announced patch availability? Patch Manager will…
Like Rodney Dangerfield would say, some System Admins feel that they "don't get no respect!" Me and some of our product managers, sales engineers, and other folks here at SolarWinds used to be Sys Admins, and lets face it -- as IT guys, most of us don't get the positive feedback we deserve for all of the things we do to…
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We’re getting close to the end of the month, so that must mean it’s time for another installment of our ever-popular IT Blogger Spotlight series. I recently caught up with John Herbert of LameJournal fame, who was kind enough to answer a few questions. In addition to following John’s exploits on LameJournal, you can keep…
I've had cause to do some investigation recently into best practices for planning, deploying, and managing VoIP. While I won't go into all of the details tonight, I did run across an interesting inconsistency. Most VoIP hardware/software vendors and consulting agencies that I've dealt with recommend a fairly telephony…
Last week I traveled to the Bay Area to present at the Gestalt IT Net Tech Field Day. I was going to write about how awesome it was - meeting many of the folks that I have followed online for years and collaborating with them about network management and general network engineering - but Brandon did such a great job of it…
Well, the first day of InterOp 2008 is behind us and what a day it was. A few thousand of you came by the booth today for free software, t-shirts, and to learn more about our software. Heck, we even had free beer from 3:00 to 5:00 when the show closed!!! If you're in Vegas this week stop by and see us and I'll hook you up…
In just a couple of weeks, thousands of people will be swarming San Francisco for VMworld! It promises to be a great time with lots of excellent networking and content. VMblog.com and SolarWinds are teaming up to make it even better!! We're hosting a vMixer on Monday night, and we'd love for you to join us! VMblog founder…
None of us are really normal. But when our tools make the things in our professional lives "normal," they make things a whole lot easier. What I'm talking about is a process commonly know as normalization. Normalization is the way in which a software program takes information from a variety of sources and translates it…
Recently Wally Mead joined us for a webcast about Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 and the Microsoft Management Summit. That webcast is now available for public viewing on YouTube. As often occurs in a webcast, we were unable to answer all of the questions presented. We thank all of the participants for their questions and I…
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