I often have a situation where I need to setup some kind of email notification for some third party app and it often doesn`t work. In order to validate email communication telnet is my best bet. Read More
While recently testing few scenarios in HyperV I somehow managed to corrupt one of my domain controllers in lab. LAB was based on Windows Server 2008 Datacenter. While rebooting server, server booted fine until the stage where I had to login into Windows.
Instead of getting login screen I got blue screen for fraction of a second, and then everything rebooted again. Read More
Few of Outlook clients (2007/2013 in my case) don`t see forwarded attachments from colleagues within same Exchange 2013 organization. It doesn`t happen to all clients, just few. Person forwards attachment but recipient doesn`t see it. Read More
I recently came upon few NetApp FAS SAN Filers. In order to get more space out of them, I had to reconfigure them. Person who initially configured them had too much disks attached to root aggregate, I wanted to completely reconfigure storage so I had to destroy current configuration and rebuild all the RAID fields. Read More
If I write something about Microsoft DPM 2012 R2 and it is usually about problems. Seems for me like every step is a problem. Today I`ll be writing about protection of SQL database. I have SQL Server 2012 STD that I want to protect. But, when I create protection group I get following error “Unable to configure protection”. Read More