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ESXi 4.1 changing the default Block Size 27 Nov 2010 | 12:36 am
http://www.vmware.com/support/product-support/vsphere-hypervisor/ vmware are pushing ESXi as the vmware product to use, so I thought I'd try it out. The install wizard was super quick, but didn't rea...
McAfee Virus (false positive) 22 Apr 2010 | 10:41 pm
McAfee VSE 8.7 with DAT 5958 falsely detects C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe as W32/Wecorl.a It then deletes the file, which causes the following error: System restart in 60 seconds: DCOM Server Pro...
Allowing more than 1 user to manage the group membership of a Exchange 2007 Distribution List 29 Sep 2009 | 02:37 am
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc164350.aspx As with most simple things in Exchange 2007 this needs to be done using powershell. It's fairly simple once you know the commands though, see ...
Encrypting and compressing backups 29 Sep 2009 | 12:48 am
Just found this. Common sense really but handy to know. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/285648.htm "When using encryption it is not recommended to use hardware compression. If the data must...
Vista/7 - Wireless Site Survey 27 Jul 2009 | 09:10 pm
Vista and Windows 7 has a built in way of doing a wireless site survey. To do this go to a command prompt and type the following: netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid
Cross Domain Availability Service 30 Jun 2009 | 02:08 am
How to publish free/busy information between 2 domains (without trusts) using Exchange 2007. List of prerequisites: 1. An account on each domain that can be used to access the free/busy information....
Recover Deleted Items from a Shift Delete in Outlook 26 Jun 2009 | 10:37 pm
By default exchange will delete deleted items after 7 days. Before this time they are only flagged for deletion and can be recovered. In Outlook when in the Deleted Items folder if you go to Tools > ...
Adding the Additional Information Tab in AD 20 May 2009 | 01:23 am
The Additional Information Tab in Active Directory 2003 shows additional useful account information, such as; the date when the user's password was last set, the user's password expiry date, the date ...
How to do the things you could easily do in Symantec AV 10 in Symantec Endpoint 11 6 May 2009 | 10:37 am
Symantec Endpoint 11 is very similar to all the latest Microsoft releases, in that all the functionality you had before is still there, just hidden away so you have to find it. The Endpoint Manager C...
Microsoft Outlook 2007 slow on a SSD drive 5 May 2009 | 07:28 am
We had a user experiencing frequent pauses in Outlook 2007, he was running a Dell D630 with a 36GB SSD, one of the first ones offered by Dell. This seems to be a known problem to both Dell and Micros...
