Daily Archives: January 17, 2012

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Hal – are there any non IT skills you have used to help clients ?

This entry was posted in Tips on January 17, 2012 by HAL

Hal – in your work have you had to use any skills that were not IT to complete projects ? John. John – sometimes fate throws up a twist that means thinking outside the box. During a server consolidation project where comms equipment and wiring were being transferred to a larger cabinet – I discovered […]

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My new SBS 2011 fails to backup using inbuilt SBS Backup, please advise.

This entry was posted in Backup Tips on January 17, 2012 by HAL

Hal, I have just finished installing a new SBS 2011 server for my company.  Once it completed I installed all waiting updates and then rebooted.  I have now tried to configure the SBS Backup and it fails within 2 minutes after starting. Error message is ‘Backup unsuccessful. A volume shadow copy service operation failed. Unknown […]

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Slow connection and logon to Sugarcrm via web

This entry was posted in Software Tips and tagged Sugar CRM on January 17, 2012 by HAL

Had a couple of colleagues remark that access to in house hosted Sugarcrm instance was slow and sluggish but that performed better once logged in and “warmed up”. After some investigation I found that logging in as the admin user and  and turning off the automated check for updates (and then saving it) before logging […]

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