Eric Schewe

System Administrator for a University in British Columbia, Canada

LifeSize Express 220 dropping calls at 45 seconds on the dot

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I recently deployed a LifeSize Express 220 in a school with a Satellite internet connection and a Cisco PIX 515 firewall running 8.0(4).28 and kept running into the strangest problem when making calls. No matter if I was calling out or someone was calling in we’d be able to talk with video or audio only for exactly 45 … Read more

How to block the Skillpages.com contact import App with Symantec Endpoint

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(Updated December 11th, 2012 – 9:115 PST) TL;DR: Turns out there isn’t an easy way to do this with just Symantec and trying to block the Java App. We blocked *@skillpages.com on our gateway anti-spam server and that took care of the problem for the most part. Original article We recently experienced a user who … Read more

NetApp SnapManager for Hyper-V won’t install because KB2263829 isn’t installed

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I’m deploying a new Hyper-V cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 and trying to install NetApp SnapManager for Hyper-V 1.1. As part of the installation pre-requisites NetApp wants you to install the following KBs: KB2406705 KB2531907 KB2263829 KB2494016 KB2637197 KB2517329 Some of these KBs have been replaced with newer ones if you’ve already … Read more

Symantec Backup Exec NDMP backups fail the verify stage when backing up from a NetApp

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We are using Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 to perform NDMP backups of our NetApp FAS2020 running Data OnTap 7.3.7. All was working well until we upgraded from Data OnTap 7.3.6 to 7.3.7. Since then Backup Exec 2010 R3 is reporting every NDMP backup as a failure with the below error during the verify stage … Read more