So, you’re transitioning your Exchange 2003 environment to an Office 365 environment and desperately want to drop kick your Exchange 2003 server out the door. After migrating everyone’s email, you open ESM, delete all of the mailboxes and start to uninstall Exchange. … [ Continue reading ]
Year: 2012
Re-create BITS and Windows Update Services for Windows 7
So, you had a bit of nasty malware. You’re almost back to square one, but have now found yourself in the unfortunate position of having missing services–specifically the Background Intelligent Transfer Service and Windows Update services.… [ Continue reading ]
Moving wireless network profiles between computers
Ran into an interesting customer issue regarding connecting to a wireless network. For whatever reason, this laptop can’t see the wireless network (though others in the office can). This laptop can connect to other WiFi networks without issue.… [ Continue reading ]
More MD3000i Trickery!
Tonight I found myself recovering a VM on a Windows 2008 R2 cluster connected to an MD3000i SAN. To make very long and painful story short, it appears that someone applied a series of Windows Updates and then a Dell DSM update that screwed up the multipathing.… [ Continue reading ]
Boot from VHD is Wicked Awesome
Boot from VHD is a great technology that enables you to host multiple self-contained operating systems on a single hard drive. Similar to dual-booting, but you don’t have to worry about installing applications over each other or overwriting program file updates because your secondary OS is fully contained within a single virtual hard disk file. … [ Continue reading ]