Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

By default, Microsoft Outlook doesn’t add entries for any statutory or civic holidays to its calendar function. There are two steps to adding the latest holiday information to your Outlook calendar. The first step is to update the Outlook holiday file (this step can be skipped if you are using Outlook 2007), and the second …

Summary:To fully backup a WSS or MOSS installation two main components need to be backed up individually, the IIS Metabase and the WSS content and configuration data. Command-line tools to complete both backups are provided by Microsoft. Process:Copy the following script into a batch file and schedule using Windows Task Scheduler: @ECHO OFF rem Script …

Thanks Dougie… This is actually quite a common problem on virtual hosts (running VMware Server) with multiple VMs. Basically, as the host is still finishing booting, the VMs start booting automatically (this is so we don’t have to start them manually) which puts a huge amount of load on the disks, processor and memory. This …

I really appreciate this honest write-up and would have written this myself had I not found someone who did it (long before I would have ;). Kudos to them but a good reference, particularly in regards to time needed, etc. https://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2004/06/18/159413.aspx Plus some notes for myself:Soft Recovery Details – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997761.aspxESEUTIL /r enn /L[path to log …

Introducing Major Change Almost all projects experience change at some point and certainly all computer networks face changes, often on a daily basis, with the introduction of new security patches, drivers and other end user requests to infrastructure that enhance business productivity. When change occurs, you need to record the information relating to the change, …

Don’t mind me, just needed to store some valuable links for various Windows Eventlog parsers, etc. X-Ways Forensics can convert EVT files to HTML, as tables with columns such as RecordNo DateGenerated TimeGenerated DateWritten TimeWritten EventID EventType LenEventData EventSource ComputerNameSID Strings. That can e.g. be imported in MS Excel. ( http://www.x-ways.net/forensics/ ) Free: http://www.dmares.com/maresware/df.htm#EVENTLOG Microsoft’s …

5.7.1 is the hardest to troubleshoot I find (take my experience with a grain of salt). In fact, most times I see this particular one, it is that the server you were trying to deliver to, had problems. I’ve seen… 1. The server was in a midservice startup and rejected, temporarily, any new connections, throwing …

Just a reminder for myself. Exchange 2003 Enterprise allows up to 4 storage groups, with up to 5 databases within (db’s share the transaction logs of their storage group). However, there is a ‘5th’ storage group… You can create up to four additional storage groups as needed for a maximum of five storage groups per …

Don’t mind me, just bookmarking something. 🙂 Found an Inexpensive Exchange SMTP Disclaimer Apphttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Ninja-Disclaimers/ Haven’t had an opportunity to try it yet but I seem to get asked for this all the time. …. like anyone reads the disclaimer. 🙂

Thanks Louis. http://www.imgburn.com/