It’s one of the first questions that we ask clients when we’re helping diagnose a problem with a network resource. There are several different ways to determine your IP address. There’s even a website, whatsmyip.org which will show you what Internet servers think your IP address is. In this post, I describe how to determine [...]
I’ve been working with client to try to identify why we sometime log onto the UVM wifi network successfully before workstation logon, but frequently this fails and drive mappings are not performed successfully. In consulting with a colleague, he suggested that it could be a race condition between the network authorizing the connection and the [...]
Last night, I stumbled across this video: Office Casual: How to work with the ribbon The Inside Office Online blog post for the video includes links to the interactive guides for the big five office applications. I haven’t watched the whole thing, yet, but it also links to video of a presentation that discusses the [...]
I like GUIs, but I also like getting things done via the command line. I was hunting around to see if there was a way to change the MTU setting for my NICs without having to edit the registry, and I found that the netsh interfaces context exposes this attribute: netsh interface ipv4 show subinterfaces [...]
Geoffrey Duke
Sr. System Administrator,
University of Vermont