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Problems upgrading #VMWare ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1
This is a bit scary Source: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016070 When attempting to upgrade ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.0 Update 1 (U1), you may experience these symptoms: Upgrade operation may fail or hang and can result in an incomplete installation Upon reboot, the host that was being upgraded may be left in an inconsistent state and may display
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Comments Off Exchange 2003 Support Lifecycle
Ohh, check it out .. Mainstream Support Retired: 14/04/2009 TODAY! http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/Default.aspx?p1=1773 As for Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 .. Support ends 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product’s support lifecycle, whichever comes first .. that is today then! So Exchange 2003 now goes in to extended
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Comments Off 960384: Description of Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
Well the Exchange team blog says it all: Yes, it has been only 5 weeks since we shipped the last update roll-up on February 10 and usually our gap between roll-ups is about eight weeks. Since the release of update roll-up 6, we have fixed about 50 issues and wanted to go ahead and provide
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Comments Off Hyper-V, SCVMM and Windows 2008
this is kinda interesting, migrated from a VmWare Server Proof of Concept to Hyper-V (by rebuild it from scratch). As part of this we used System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) templates. So everything is going fine, but since the tail end of last week strange things started to happen. Nothing was logged in any
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Comments Off mstsc
I must admit, I do like having multiple monitors to work with and found this the other day which is quite cool. If you run this: mstsc /span It will multi-mon your rdp session!
Comments Off Exchange 2007 Continuous Replication and Circular Logging
I want to thank Neil for finding this. So in my lab I have a CCR cluster want just wanted to enable circular logging … I just couldnt get it work, looks like I missed a step http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb331951.aspx You can combine circular logging with continuous replication. In this configuration, you have a new type of
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Comments Off Exchange 2007 Self Signed Certificate
Couldn’t work out why my Outlook stopped working, then i worked it out .. the damm self signed cert has expired … (has it been a year already!) So my thanks Bharat for this: http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2008/01/exchange-server-2007-renewing-self.html but I had to add some stuff to get it work properly!!! [PS] C:\PS>Get-ExchangeCertificate Thumbprint Services Subject ———- ——– ——-
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Comments Off Backing up Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008
Yeah, yeah I know it’s not supported and doesn’t work out of the box, but hey just got it to work, and it was dead simple. Basically get hold of the 64bit versions of ntbackup.exe, ntmsapi.dll, and vssapi.dll from a Windows 2003 server. Now create folder on a Windows 2008 server that has the mailbox role
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Comments Off Damm you Sacl right ;-)
This is just for me to remind me AGAIN about these errors: Event Type: Error Event Source: MSExchange ADAccess Event Category: Topology Event ID: 2114 Description: Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGYSERVICE.EXE (PID=2908). Topology discovery failed, error 0x80040a02 (DSC_E_NO_SUITABLE_CDC). Look up the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) error code specified in the event description. To do this, use Microsoft Knowledge Base article 218185,
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