Many years ago while working on unix mini-computer systems from IBM, HP and Data General (now consigned to the annals of computing history) – disk IO monitoring and performance tuning was all the rage – attempting to get the most out of the systems that were implemented. Indeed much effort went into the development of […]
Picked this up this morning – worth having a look W32/VBNA-X worm spreads quickly through networks and removable media SophosLabs researchers have noticed a significant increase in the spread of malware we call W32/VBNA-X (among other names). Several other vendors, including McAfee (W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb) and Symantec (W32.ChangeUp), have been alerting their customers as well. While the […]
A colleague alerted me to an event yesterday that promises to be a very useful resource. These are 4 of the leading exponents of xpages and now they are in the same place at the same time – Wow. “Today, Chris Toohey is joined by David Leedy, Paul Calhoun, and Russell Maher to discuss IBM […]
A colleague and were discussing a failure for DNS lookup on an SBS 2003 server where the secondary dns was the local Vigor 2820 router. When testing nslookup it failed after the requisite 2 seconds. After restarting the dns service and client on the server – the same result was found. We discussed the options […]
I’ve had previous issues (with older versions of acronis backup software) where mapped drives as targets for backup jobs would occasionally fail when the software believed that the credentials for the connection were wrong. You will find that blog here. So when I saw a falied job mentioning the credentials not being correct – I […]
A recent clear out of old vms had an impact on the performance of an sbs 2011 virtual machine. The plan had been to remove the old vms and free up some space on the esx. However it deletion process left behind several large files from rather old vms and when the server disk size […]
I had a project recently which highlighted an issue with deep folder trees and large numbers of small files causing slow transfer rates when moving files between two servers. As part of the migration to an SBS 2011 server tests showed a particular rate of transfer which suggested that overnight transfers of data would be […]
This problem appears regularly when removing the troublesome and generally unused BCM addon that came with the Outlook 2007 Small Business Edition. I haven’t come across too many companies using the addon as frankly its performance and reliability were sub par. I have though come across a lot of oddities that are traced back to […]
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