Next Level Leadership Conference

The Next Level Leadership Conference is distinctly different from most. It’s designed especially for leaders of churches who want close interaction with pastors who’ve navigated from one level of ministry to the next, time and again.
Savannah Christian Church has grown from a few hundred to 6,000 worshipers in the last decade. Along the way, we’ve [...]

Scanning MACs with Spiceworks

Here at Savannah Christian Church, we use Spiceworks (www.spiceworks.com) for our IT Inventory and Help Desk database.  We’ve been using it for about a year now, and it works great.  Spiceworks has the ability to scan Windows via Windows Accounts and/or Domain Accounts; MAC/Unix/Lunix via SSH; and Network hardware via SNMP.  Until recently, we just [...]

A year of Blogging

It’s been a year since I’ve started blogging.  Looking back, I really haven’t kept up with it like I had thought I would.  I average a post or two every other month.  But that’s cool though.
My purpose for the blog is to have a place to share my experiences with other IT Professionals.  What better [...]

Two Years with the Barracuda Spam Firewall

This month marks two years that we have had the Barracuda Spam Firewall.  I wanted to post the results (as I did last year):
The first shot is stats since I first installed the Barracuda, and the second shot is stats from this month.  It’s working great and I would highly recommend the Barracuda Spam Firewall [...]

Exchange 2007

Wow.  I took our Exchange 2007 Server from 8GB RAM to 16GB RAM on Sunday.  PowerEdge 2950 III, Dual Quad Core Processors, 16GB RAM, Check this out…

That’s awesome!  570MB free, 16GB of RAM  AND  16GB Pagefile being used!

Spiceworks 3.1 Update Now Available

Spiceworks 3.1 update is now available and it has fixed the duplicate records that I blogged about not long ago.
In April, we implemented Spiceworks for Network Inventory and Monitoring.  We have it scan twice per day, so we are able to see the most current data.  With the release of Spiceworks 3.0, we implemented Help [...]

ESXi Time Bomb Error

Problem with ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2:  As of August 12, 2008, Virtual Machine won’t power on after it has been powered off or rebooted.
You receive the error:
A General System Error occured: Internal Error
Your event will display:
This product has expired.  Be sure that your host machine’s date and time are set [...]

IT Policy

Do you have a written IT policy clearly stating that all computers are property of the church, that an employee has no privacy to using the computer, and that the church (employer) has the right to “access, monitor, analyze, and inspect its computers at any time, with or without permission or advance notice”?  Are the [...]

VMware ESX 3i Installation Video

Here’s a video I found of the ESXi installation, literally beginning to end in less than seven minutes.  If you haven’t had a chance to test ESXi yet, here’s a glimpse at what to expect…

The Leadership Summit

Are you ready for the Leadership Summit this week!  If you have not already made plans, there’s still time!  Click the image above for details, and instructions on how to register.  You definitely don’t want to miss it!
Here’s a highlight from 2007…