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We're in 2011 - and who would have thought printer migration still would have sucked so much! Hopefully this post will help it suck a little less for some of you. My migration situation: Moving from Novell and iPrint to 2008 R2 (as part of a bigger AD migration project) Printer drivers and definitions are…
Continue readingWhen it comes to corporate hardware (server and workstations) we often get asked who do we recommend. From my point of iew, their all ok - HP/Dell/IBM/Lenovo/Acer - some people have a preference for the HP CMI tools or ILO, others dont mind DRAC and OCMI tools etc - all of them have their strong…
Continue readingA employee of mine pointed out this quote from an SQL webpage "HADR" is a high-availability and disaster recovery solution introduced in SQL Server Code-Named “Denali” to enable you to maximize availability for one or more of your user databases. Deploying "HADR" involves configuring one or more availability groups. Each availability group establishes the context…
Continue readingAt one of our client sites, we had an issue where the client could no longer create exchange 2010 mailboxes after a DC was demoted. After some poking, and trying the "set-ADServerSettings" commd-let, we found that simply deleting the mmc definition file from c:users<username>appdataroamingmicrosoftmmcExchange Management Console "solved" the issue.
Continue readingRecently a client bought up the slow start-up times of their TMG 2010 cluster nodes.... after they mentioned it, i had a look at a few others (internally and at clients) and noticed the same thing.... and in the event log saw that the TMG Job scheduler took a long time to start (as in…
Continue readinghttp://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2010/10/14/configuration-manager-2007-r3-is-here.aspx
Continue readingSo as most nerds would already know, OCS "14" has been re-named Microsoft Lync Server... and with it comes a new home for the OCS Team blog.... http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/ I attended the OCS/Lync Ignite last week in Sydney (or syd-a-knee if you are president of the IOC). It was the first time i'd gone to anything…
Continue reading99% of the time i use RPC/HTTP (or Outlook anywhere) to access my mail externally, but the other day i was forced to use OWA for the first time since i updated to Exchange 2010 SP1. What a pleasant surprise. OWA has been given a minor, yet nice graphical overhaul that makes it look about…
Continue readingAfter upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP1 over the weekend (i lead an exciting life) - and believing that all was fine, i found this week, while away, that i couldnt set an out-of-office auto-reply while connected via RPC/HTTP. This was fairly obviously something to do with the Exchange Web services (EWS) IIS directory not being…
Continue readingAustralia is a free nation, free to think what we want, say what want, do what we want... as long as we dont choose to use that freedom to think or say things deemed as "bad" by someone, somewhere... http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/10/3008863.htm Just as well we have freedom... our federal politicans are a bunch of spineless evil…
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