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Server Essentials 2012 R2 – Connector and RDP
I’ve written a few posts about Server 2012 R2 Essentials and I’ve made it pretty clear that I am a “fan”. For small shops it’s a pretty sweet deal as it makes it very easy to manage your systems. One of the features provided by Essentials is the “Connector software. The Connector sets up the …
Read onWebucator Famoused Me! :)
Webucator contacted me a while back asking if they could turn one of my blog posts into a video. I of course agreed, and they’ve posted the video on YouTube below. Filtering a SharePoint List View by Hyperlink This is related to the following blog post. http://mmman.itgroove.net/2014/12/08/filtering-a-sharepoint-list-view-by-hyperlink/ Be sure and check out Webucator’s other SharePoint …
Read onVeeam update 8.0.0.2084 error: Failed to finalize the guest processing. Details: Failed to process ‘TruncateSQLLog’ command. Failed to truncate transaction logs for SQL instances: MICROSOFT ## WID.Possible Reasons: lack of permissions, or transaction log corruption.
Recently I upgraded our Veeam install to 8.0.0.2084 and began receiving this error on a bunch of our backups. “Failed to finalize the guest processing. Details: Failed to process ‘TruncateSQLLog’ command. Failed to truncate transaction logs for SQL instances: MICROSOFT ## WID.Possible Reasons: lack of permissions, or transaction log corruption.” I Contacted Veeam and they …
Read onOffice 365–Yammer and Outlook Groups
I realized as I was writing my posts about Outlook Groups that some people might wonder if there would be a reason to use a Group in place of Yammer or vice versa. So I thought a quick discussion about how the two pieces work and relate might be in order. The first thing to …
Read onVolunteer! It’s good for your soul!
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill I volunteer with a couple of organizations, one of which I write about regularly on this blog, Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary, and the other which is not tech oriented, the Salvation Army Stan …
Read onStupid Licensing Practices
This is a rant so be forewarned … We discovered an “interesting” kink in Backup Exec licensing this week. I will admit that we had not been paying attention to the changes announced first by Symantec and then Veritas so I suppose we were partially asleep at the switch. Nevertheless, the changes are significant and …
Read onThanks for making me look good, Matt!
I am the first to admit I don’t have an “eye”. I take a lousy photograph (poor composition), I’m probably colour blind (or at least colour agnostic), I can’t work a graphics editor to save my soul, and I’m so text-oriented that younger colleagues “pity” me. Let’s face it, I’m an old white guy with …
Read onOffice 365 – “Outlook” Groups, Part 2
In the first part of this series I looked at the basics of creating an Outlook Group in the Office 365 Mail client and I also highlighted the components of the created Group. In this post I’m going to look at how the Group looks in and interacts with Outlook on a PC as well …
Read onSharePoint Social Icons
What When someone shares a SharePoint public facing website via Facebook, Facebook loads a “preview” of the website in the post. What it does is gets the URL and grabs the first image it finds that SharePoint is presenting to the world. So What The problem is, unless overridden, the first image it will (often) …
Read onOffice 365 – “Outlook” Groups, Part 1
One of my favourite features in O365 is Groups. I think it is one of the most useful features that Microsoft has rolled into O365 over the past 12 – 14 months and one that all organization sizes can utilize. Groups can be used for many tasks such as “light” project management, team collaboration, your …
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