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Vermyndax on November 10th, 2011

If you have a Lion server behind a NAT router (for example, an Airport Extreme or Time Capsule) that is running a VPN service you may have difficulties connecting to it with Windows 7 using L2TP despite the correct setup. I won’t go into the deep dive on this now, but just a total quick [...]

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Vermyndax on July 7th, 2011

Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 It looks like Exchange 2007 SP3 RU4 has a lot of goodies in it. At least 5 of the items in this list are impacting the environment at my day job. While it’s good to see progress, I’m always wary of these updates [...]

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Vermyndax on May 20th, 2011

All I can say is… times are definitely changing. BOOM: IBM Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft   Bookmark to: Hide Sites

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Vermyndax on May 17th, 2011

Have you heard of Yammer? If not, you will. You will likely hear about Yammer after your corporation or business signs a deal with them. Your users will start to flock toward the service and sign up. Lo and behold you will discover that they will be offered a piece of software to install. During [...]

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Vermyndax on March 31st, 2011

I was reading the blog post over at Microsoft from the fellow… Oh, I forget his name already. Anyway, he was explaining why Microsoft is filing a complaint with the European Commission about Google’s unfair business advantages and whatnot. At first, this whole thing comes off as a company entering legacy mode. Microsoft reminds me [...]

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Vermyndax on January 16th, 2011

I’m guessing from the amount of hits on the Drobo article from 2009 that people are still having problems with Drobos rebuilding the array in a decent amount of time. Ever since I got a DS4600 using standard RAID-5 I’ve been quite happy. Rebuild times on a 6TB volume are about 2.5 hours. Note: the [...]

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Vermyndax on October 28th, 2009

For those of you who follow my adventures here, but not necessarily my adventures over there, you should be aware that we’ve posted NO CARRIER Episode #11.  This episode is very special to my heart because it’s the first show we did in our new studio (Whitey is still over Skype though).  I think the [...]

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Vermyndax on October 6th, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife One of the industry buzzwords that needs to go to the grave is the user “experience.” Don’t quote me here, but I recall this buzzword being developed by Microsoft as part of the marketing campaign behind Windows XP.  XP was supposed to be “experience” or “expert” or “Xtra stuPid [...]

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Vermyndax on September 28th, 2009

Are you curious about the hard stats of messages running around your organization? Try this one in powershell on your hub transport server: get-messagetrackinglog -start “mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss” -end “mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss” -eventid “send” -resultsize 9999999 | measure-object This will pull stats for messages that were “sent”.  To pull the number of messages received, change the “eventid” [...]

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Vermyndax on September 24th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase A coworker sent this along.  I’ve had this issue on a few contacts and didn’t really have time to delve into it. Name removed to protect the innocent and good intentions.  Be very careful with this and make sure you have a backup of all data that you plan to manipulate. — [...]

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