Import Hyper-V Machine Without Export File
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”...
MySQL Recovery for Plesk 8.x After System Crash
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...
Nagios Alerts From Firefox
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...
Integrating MOSS 2007 and SQL 2008 Reporting Services
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,...
Prepend “www.” to URL
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...