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The HP Universal Print Driver 5 released earlier this summer. A maintenance release of this version corrects some items listed in the "Breaking News" tab of the HP Universal Print Driver site. Please review the following sources of information: Detailed release notes for the original HP Universal...
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Here's a new BladeSystem best-practices whitepaper on the topic of firmware: HP BladeSystem ProLiant firmware management best practices It talks about different scenarios for firmware maintenance (like local vs. remote, online vs. offline), and goes over doing whole-enclosure as well as single-component...
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As many IT administrators know, the launch of Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Server 2008 R2 are quickly coming around the corner. The MS Windows 7 wide release comes on the 22nd of October, 2009. I know most of my customers are looking forward to this release from Microsoft. Administrators managing...
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The NY Times published an article about President Bill Clinton’s visit to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-il about releasing the two imprisoned American reporters, Laura Ling and Euna Lee. The result was simple and surprising- they were released! I found this article particularly interesting...
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This is just a quick note to share that DSS 4.15 released a short time ago. If you're updating from DSS 4.14, there are no new features really as this is mainly a maintenance release. This updated software package will address customer issues identified through HP's support and escalation personnel...
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The HP LaserJet, Color LaserJet, Edgeline and Digital Senders have new firmware updates which officially launched on the HP website recently. I've shown a list of the devices below with their new and previous firmware versions. I've done a couple other things with this list since past versions...
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In a previous post I mentioned that HP Web Jetadmin had launched. It was temporarily pulled to deal with an installer-related issue and re-released super quickly with the necessary hot-fix. I shan't bore you with the details found nestled in the release notes, but I do suggest, if you have the old...
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From Work-Life Balance to Work-Life Bursts and Work-Life Teams I was reading a colleague’s post on work-life balance , where she was referencing Jack Welch’s statement that there is no such thing . Those who know me would certainly laugh if they knew I was commenting on work-life balance...
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The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used in many network appliances like switches, routers, printers, IP console KVMs, etc. While most network administrators would be directed to use tools like HP Web Jetadmin to do the work for them, for various reasons some administrators may prefer to...
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HP Web Jetadmin 10.2 (10.2.58560) has launched. There are a lot of really great new features that have been added with a couple altered or removed all-together. Give yourself some time to absorb the new features and treat this like a major upgrade. While the release notes show the detailed "What's...
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Posted by: Brian R. Kneebone Technology Consultant, Imaging and Printing Group The HP Web Jetadmin team has put together an amazing series of training videos that are beyond fantastic. I'm really happy to recommend this to customers of all sizes and types who would like a quick crash course in familiarizing...
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By Lorre Bumgardner, Product Manager - HP Platforms/Partner management Monday, April 27th marked a significant milestone in our 20+ year relationship with Microsoft. We are very excited about the news -- we launched the Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center (ICE-SC) at Microsoft Management...
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Posted by: Brian R. Kneebone Technology Consultant, Imaging and Printing Group Most enterprise customers I work with equate enterprise printing with laser printing. While Hewlett-Packard has a fantastic array of products in its LaserJet and Color LaseJet portfolio, for many needs ink-based solutions...
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By John Schmitz On March 30, we announced our new G6 line of HP ProLiant servers - built for performance and reliability. These servers, which run the HP Insight Control suite, are the industry's best managed x86 servers. HP Insight Control suite, popularly known as "ICE," provides essential...
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Posted by: Brian R. Kneebone Technology Consultant, Imaging and Printing Group It's been well over a month since I've posted an update on this portal, so I figured it was time for another video tutorial. This question has come up a couple of times with my various customers around importing and...