Last year during the big PowerBall mania I had some time stuck in DC for a client to write up a quick Excel spreadsheet for checking a bulk supply of tickets. Well, now it seems the changes to MegaMillions has ballooned the jackpot up near where the November 2012 PowerBall was at and again people
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As a part of the December 2012 update to CRM 2011, which also brought us the new and improved Polaris UI experience, Microsoft has gone all-in on the social integration with Dynamics CRM. Before we were given the ability to highlight new deals and signed business using the Post entity and the Activity Feeds views
It seems nowadays everyone has an office pool for the Power Ball, pooling cash into a large pot and buying enough tickets to cover the cost of them so you all share in the massive jackpot. But the pain with having a lot of tickets is the fact that there are winners other than the
This week I upgraded my desktop to Windows 7 and Office 2010. My laptop has been running both for about 2 months, but I finally broke down and installed it on the desktop. Don’t think it was because I have a problem with 7 or 2010. On the contrary, I love them both…they’ve reignited a
I’m an old school Dreamweaver user. I’ve been using it since the Macromedia days, starting out with version 2 in high school. Because it always tightly integrated into their suite of applications, I never had need to dust off Photoshop because I had Fireworks. It always served its purpose, but when Adobe bought Macromedia back
I recently needed to rename a Hyper-V server (which is essentially a server core install of Windows Server 2008 R2). It took so doing, but I found the command. [code]Netdom renamecomputer oldname /newname:newname /userd:someuser /passwordd:*[/code] Replace the computer names with valid ones and a domain admin user, and the command will prompt for your password.
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I’ve been beating my head against the wall for a week on trying to forcibly remove a corrupted Exchange 2007 install on one of my servers. The AD Configuration tree became corrupted and a restore did not fix it, so I rebuilt a new server and migrated the mailboxes there. Problem solved! Except, now how
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This one drove me nuts for four days before I figured out what was going on. A client is deploying OCS 2007 R2 in their environment and ditching WebEx and GoToMeeting, as well as the other conferencing and collaboration features of the product. However, the main goal of getting users outside of the organization to
Recently, a client was looking to backup the primary database for one of their acquisitions to their home office. Because of security concerns, they can’t combine the users on the office network with their corporate network until their team can fully integrate the systems, but a full, regular off-site backup is needed ASAP. Since the
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Last week I had a client with a crashed hard drive on their Hyper-V server. Coming from a physical server world, they had performed file-level backups of all the virtual machines and virtual machine files on the system. Expecting to just recover the files to the new RAID array and use the “Import virtual machine”
I checked and checked and couldn’t find a good answer to this question: how do I recover my MySQL databases for Plesk after a system crash if I don’t have MySQL-aware backups? BackupExec captures the .frm files and the InnoDB logs, but it can’t restore specific databases or tables, just the raw files. And if
Throughout my day I need to monitor several different looking glasses at my system performance and availability. Not only do I have my distributed SmokePing machines feeding back to my Chicago monitoring server, I have several Cacti front-ends and a half-dozen Nagios boxes (including my internal and external machines and some virtual Nagios boxes we
Recently, a customer was curious about implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 inside of their organization. While working with one of their external clients, they were exposed to the collaboration and versioning features of the software and were captivated by the simplicity of the software. As they are TechNet subscribers and Registered Partners with Microsoft,
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Even the setup of this very blog was wrought with an un-documented issue with URL rewriting. Most SEO experts worth their titles know that Google and other search engines recognize “www.domain.com” and “domain.com” as two distinct sites and split your results and ranking between the two. The ultimate goal is to try and combine your