Monthly Archives: June 2011


Best practices for Backup Exec 2010 Granular Recovery Technology

As an adjunct to the Best Practices for BE for Exchange 2010 – heres a reheat of the GRT specific best practices from Symantec. Best practices include tips and recommendations to help you use Symantec Backup Exec and Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) effectively. For more information about Granular Recovery Technology, see the Backup Exec 2010 […]


Best practices for Backup Exec 2010 Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server

During research for a problem that related to Exchange GRT backups which you can read here – I found this document on the Symantec site which I thought I’d reproduce with some comments and thoughts. For me the simple act of documenting how the server is configured is absolutely vital – especially in a crisis […]


Prompted for a passcode on your Iphone with an exchange email account ?

Recently I replaced an existing blackberry installation where the users had replaced their handsets with Iphones. The change was a shock to the system due the absolute lack of tooks for corporate management of Iphones. During the email configuration  which requested we create a passcode  we noticed something very  very annoying. The passcode is requested regularly when […]


Unable to access a TS Gateway server – check IIS default web site is running

While carrying  out some hyperV renovations for a client we happened on a problem that I though I would share. The scenario is an internet facing server acting as a Windows 2008 Rs Terminal services gateway to another Windows 2008 R2 server where the application is held. The client has settings on the remote user […]


Transforming your domino apps

If you have been to any Lotus / Domino related event in the last 6 months you will likely have heard about GBS and their application to convert existing Notes applications into Xpages – Transformer. Now we have a new release Transformer 2.0 which you can get more info about here. The product isn’t some […]