SOPA Congressional Picture
House Resolution 3261, more commonly known as SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is garnering a great deal of attention lately, especially as major websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit are blacking out their services in protest of the controversial legislation. For proponents of SOPA, this is a necessary regulatory action designed to halt […]
Veeam 6: Resource not ready: VI proxy
Encountered a weird issue in Veeam 6. We had migrated from one server to another, and the replica jobs suddenly all started hanging. The job as a whole showed “Waiting for processing resources availability”, and the individual machines showd “Resource not ready: VI proxy”. We had been sure to reset the guest and VSS credentials […]
Veeam 6: Importance of Proxies in Replication
We have been using and recommending Veeam for quite some time. The local backup product has been very solid, and always improving. The replication piece of the software on version 5 was quite non-functional. If you’re considering setting up replica jobs, make sure your support is up to date, and go ahead and upgrade to […]
Data Connections – Making life easy for your fellow colleagues
In my experience most technical IT types love to name databases and data fields in weird and wonderful ways. A good example is this gem I encountered recently “ATV”, take a guess at what that means. If you create a data field called “ATV” and then expect your user base to understand what it means […]
Instruction for Tableau Dashboard Hidden in Tooltip
Are you creating a Tableau dashboard and need to leave instructions for users on how to use the dashboard, but you don’t want to take up valuable space for these instructions? If so, this post is definitely for you. Using a Created Field, we will hide the instructions in the tooltip. Follow the steps below: […]
Migrating Veeam 6 Backups and Creating a New Repository
Purpose This article explains how to migrate existing backups in Veeam 6 to a location so you don’t have to reseed an entire job. Overview I recently did work on a Veeam setup that had several local backups that were about +100GB per job. Unfortunately, the hard drive that housed the backups was low on […]
Error Message: Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window
If you experience the following error message “Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.” when trying to open up Outlook 2007 (and usually see your Outlook screen flash in the background before crashing), I have a fairly quick and painless solution for you. Here is a screenshot of the error message: […]
Google Search Integrates Google+ in Search Results
Google just announced it will start incorporating social content in search results. This is an important, and powerful, step for Google as it seeks to learn as much about its users as it possibly can. The intent is to create a better search experience for Google+ users, which leads to more people turning to Google […]
How to Find ROI in Social Media
This is a very interesting topic. It is debated, as it is very difficult to quantify the exact results of social media. Here is the answer… stop trying to find ROI and understand you never will. Not to say social media does not deliver results and revenues to your company, it is just insanely difficult […]
Adding a CSV Export button to Drupal 6 Views displays
Views is something that a lot of Drupal developers (myself included) likely could not do without. It provides a great way for us to display, sort, filter, and manage data and content for a huge variety of uses. One such use is exporting this collection of data as a CSV file. We can make this […]
