Last Thursday night I had the distinct privilege of participating in a real life Exchange 2010 disaster recovery scenario. Roughly 41,000 mailboxes on 22 databases had the DAG ripped out from underneath them accidentally. When I say ‘ripped out from underneath them’ I mean literally that; everything was removed, including all the cluster resources and [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange ServerOK, this is driving me insane. I really like the multiple Exchange profile support in Outlook 2010 but how the hell do I change the From: names in the drop down list? I tried changing the name of the account but it always reverts back. Help! Possibly Related Posts: Outlook 2010 Question How to perform [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange Server1.) Launch an elevated command prompt. (Right Click on Command Prompt –> Run as Administrator) 2.) Execute the command wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:D: while substituting D: for another drive letter if needed. To my knowledge you can’t backup to a folder unfortunately. Possibly Related Posts: Outlook 2010 Question How to perform a System State Backup [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange ServerI just came across this phone today – a Nokia 8860 – that I purchased back in 1999. If I remember correctly I paid around $450 for it but I’m not 100% positive. While not my first phone – which was a Nokia of some sort on CellularOne – it is the oldest one I [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange ServerI’m looking for a netbook but can’t discern a huge difference between the various models. Here are some of the specs I want; 10.2″ Screen 160GB HDD 2GB RAM (Capable at least, I can upgrade it if needed) What I want to use it for; Streaming Video – 720p preferably Web Browsing Occasional E-Mail Any [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange ServerThe graph of time spent downloading a page from Google Webmaster Tools pretty much speaks for itself. May & June = Dreamhost, July = Server In My Garage Hosted On A Cable Modem. Possibly Related Posts: Outlook 2010 Question How to perform a System State Backup on Windows 2008 with Windows Server Backup
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange ServerSo the Palm Pre is finally available to order online and I am in need of a new phone finally. Navigating through Sprint’s site I find and click Select, thinking it will let me buy the phone. Nope, that would be too easy. Evidently my current plan – Everything Data Share 1500 – is not [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange ServerJust in case you need it as well – strComputer = “.” Set objWMIService=GetObject(“winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” & _ strComputer & “\root\cimv2″) Const ForAppending = 8 Set objFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile _ (“c:\scripts\wmiProviders.txt”, ForAppending, True) Set colWin32Providers = objWMIService.InstancesOf(“__Win32Provider”) For Each objWin32Provider In colWin32Providers objTextFile.WriteLine(objWin32Provider.Name) Next objTextFile.Close Possibly Related Posts: Outlook 2010 Question How to [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange ServerCurrently, all my sites are hosted by Dreamhost. For the most part this has been a pleasant experience but I’ve noticed a number of issues in the last couple weeks and have finally decided to move all my sites back to my own server. I really don’t want to do this as it’s somewhat bothersome [...]
Tagged disaster recovery, exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange ServerOur last DVD player bit the dust a few weeks ago so I’ve been watching for a good price on one online. Luckily, I picked up an almost identical Philips for $19.99 on Woot about a week ago and it showed up today. This of course led to Ryan immediately asking if he could hook [...]
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