Make Money! Become a Google Adwords Certified Professional! (GACP)

March 11 2009 by admin in Training/Certifications |Comments Off on Make Money! Become a Google Adwords Certified Professional! (GACP)

I was surfing the web looking for some info about Google’s Ad-Words program when I came upon a company charging $250 dollars an hour for someone with a GACP certification to set up my advertising campaign. So I said to myself, “what the heck is a GACP?” Turns out GACP or Google Adwords Certified Professional is an exam that Google offers to anyone with an adwords account. Google provides all the training material in both video and text format and the test is taken online for a cost of $50 bucks.

Here is the link to the Google Learning Center.

Here is the link to the Google Advertising Professional Program.

You can become certified as a company or as an individual.

Why Should I Get Certified you ask?

On completion of the exam will be awarded the Qualified Google Advertising Professional Logo, something that looks very good if you are personally involved in a business that uses Adwords. Add it to your resume as a proof or your qualifications, or just take it for yourself. AND did I mention that you can make some serious money with it? Continue reading »

Places for Information Technology Professionals to moonlight!

March 11 2009 by admin in Awesome Websites |Comments Off on Places for Information Technology Professionals to moonlight!

Looking to pick up some supplemental income?  Then here are a few places you should try out.

ONFORCE, is one site I have used extensively. You sign up and submit your skill set and location. They will send you text messages when jobs are available in your area. You can bid on the jobs, and accept the ones you want. After you finish the work, you fill out a job log and then Onforce forwards your money (minus a 10% finders fee) to your checking or savings account. Most of the jobs are Information Technology Infrastructure related, although there are some point-of-sale, TV, and enterprise class printer jobs as well. They have a relationship with Dell and HP to assist workers with certifications (I have a separate post about that in the Training and Certifications section). They use a 6 point rating system to weed out the bad techs, as well as the bad work providers. You can even get a background check put in your profile for a nominal fee.

I’ve had a very positive experience with Onforce! Check out my profile here and here!

ODESK is practically a clone of  ONFORCE.  I have not used this site, but it came recommended to me from a reliable source, so I’ll include it in this post.

Finally there’s ELANCE.  Elance is geared primarily for coders, and web development people.  Again, I haven’t used this site but it come highly recommend.  If coding is your thing be sure to check it out!


“Windows can not find SYSOCMGR.exe” error message when connecting to network fax with Vista client.

March 10 2009 by admin in I.T. Knowledgebase, Vista and Windows 7 |Comments Off on “Windows can not find SYSOCMGR.exe” error message when connecting to network fax with Vista client.

When you try to connect to a remote fax printer on a computer that is running Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Enterprise, the fax installation fails, and you get “Windows can not find SYSOCMGR.exe” error message!

This issue occurs because fax installation tries to install the fax feature by using the Windows Components Wizard (Sysocmgr.exe). By default, this fax feature is not installed in Windows Vista Business or in Windows Vista Enterprise.

There is currently no hot fix but you can do a workaround in the following manner:

To work around this issue, install the fax feature by using Programs and Features in Control Panel. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Click Start, type programs and features in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
  2. Click Turn Windows features on or off, click to select the Windows Fax and Scan check box, and then click OK.

Stupid Vista!

What to do when the Domain Controller Can’t find its domain!

March 10 2009 by admin in Active Directory, I.T. Knowledgebase |Comments Off on What to do when the Domain Controller Can’t find its domain!

PROBLEM:

Users unable to login to the domain – DCs not replicating

RESOLUTION:

=> Set the RPC Locator service to Automatic and started on the PDC.
=> Still DCdiag gave errors of 1355.
=> Ran dcdiag on both PDC and BDC – both showed problems with sysvol and netlogon shares
=> Checked and found that both servers did not have sysvol and netlogon shared
=> Found that the SYSVOL was shared as SYSVOLa – unshared it as it looked like manually shared.
=> Checked the PDC server and found that the Policies and Scripts were under the NTFRS-PRE-Existing folder
=> Stopped FRS Service on the BDC and PDC servers
=> Backed the policies and scripts from ntfrs-pre-existing folders to a folder on the desktop on PDC
=> Copied it on to the SYSVOL\sysvol folder
=> Started the FRS Service only on PDC
=> The sysvol and netlogon shares did not get created.
=> Stopped FRS Service again on PDC
=> On registry modified the following :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters\Backup/Restore\Process at Startup
Burflags value to d4
=> Started the FRS service on PDC
=> Got Event id : 13516 NTFRS on the PDC File replication service event log
=> On the BDC modified the registry :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters\Backup/Restore\Process at Startup
Burflags value to d2
=> Started FRS Service on BDC
=> Got Event id : 13516 NTFRS on the BDC File Replication service event log
=> Checked replication using repadmin /syncall – looks fine on both servers
=> Ran dcdiag /q on BDC and got no errors
=> Ran dcdiag /q on PDC and got one warning of 13508 and 13509 being reported on the eventlogs
=> Restarted FRS service on the PDC and reran dcdiag /q – got no errors now
=> All looks fine

I researched the Event ID received from the following portion of a dcdiag on PDC: Continue reading »

Shofkom’s World Grand Opening!

March 10 2009 by admin in About This Site |Comments Off on Shofkom’s World Grand Opening!

Welcome to the grand opening of Shofkom’s world of Information Technology!  I put this site together for the following reasons;

  1. A reference and knowledge base for Information Technology FAQ’s, specifically for those of us in a system administrator, network engineer, or project manager role.  Most of what you will find in this blog will relate to actual real world experiences that I have encountered while working in I.T. for the last 15 years.
  2. A showcase for my personal work ethic, and ways to improve your well being, both mentally and physically, in the roles mentioned above.
  3. A landing place for potential employers, head hunters, and I.T recruiters to review my accomplishments and contact me about potential opportunities in the Information Technology field.
  4. A general information reference point for fellow I.T. workers, and like minded individuals.

It is my goal to make this site both interesting and imformative, so take a look around and feel free to comment on what you like.  I hope you enjoy what I’ve put together, and remember, this is a work in progress!

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