Monthly Archives: November 2011

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Windows 2008 r2 and Exchange VSS problem

This entry was posted in Software Storage Tips and tagged Backup EXEC 12.5 VSS on November 8, 2011 by HAL

The scenario. Two servers – one with Backup Exec 12.5 and all available patches – the other with Exchange 2007 SP2 nd the backup exec agent for exchange. Both running Server 2008 r2. The problem – every time an exchange backup of the store on the second server failed immediately on backup exec with a […]

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Have you been Nobulated ? Don’t panic

This entry was posted in Software and tagged Windows 2008 R2 on November 7, 2011 by HAL

Yes – IT staff get to see some strange and unusual error messages from the vast range of software that is running in businesses. This one however deserves special mention. This happened on reboot of a server 2008r2 (Dell Poweredge) after booting from an vmware coldclone cd. The clone failed (netork driver issue) and the machine […]

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If you love them – let them go free (free xpages course from IBM)

This entry was posted in Tips xpages and tagged Free IBM Lotus Training XPAGES on November 4, 2011 by HAL

Oh another treat announced by Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibms-introduction-to-xpages-courseware-free. The IBM course work for lan Introduction to xpages course which you can get from Lotus Greenhouse. You will need an account but apart from that its just a download and then you will be able to enjoy the content. Initial look at the info gives that […]

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Getting mailbox data out of Exchange 2007

This entry was posted in Software Tips and tagged Exchange 2007 on November 3, 2011 by HAL

In a previous blog I mentioned the tribulations in getting Exchange 2007 Sp2 management tools on to a Windows 7 workstation. This need was generated by some issue between Backup Exec 12.5 and Exchange 2007 failing to backup up LCR protected stores. As an interim I was looking to get an extract of the mailbox […]

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Exchange 2007 management tools and Windows 7

This entry was posted in Comment Software and tagged Exchange 2007 Windows 7 on November 2, 2011 by HAL

You wouldn’t think that Microsoft could make like that awkward for their own tools. So you’d think that putting the management tools for Exchange 2007 Sp2  onto a Windows 7 32 bit machine would be easy or at least not a crazy setup ? Wrong. Microsoft manage to say that its possible and not possible […]

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And finally an explanation from DynDNS

This entry was posted in Comment Web and tagged Dyndns on November 1, 2011 by HAL

As a longtime  user of the Dyndns service for a number of purposes I had a pretty bad experience of the recent outage. A major mail loop developed and this contributed to a capping of one of my adsl lines due to a hugh spike in mail get pushed back and forward between servers. The […]

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