Backup Exec Media Sets
A media set in Backup Exec is a set of instructions for how the software handles appending and if/when the media will be available to be over written. The default media set in Backup Exec is set to keep data indefinitely. This is good to get you up and running quickly, but is not what […]
SonicWall Syslog Data Extraction From Viewpoint
The SonicWall RAM log doesn’t scroll back too far, and if you are utilizing the SonicWall ViewPoint service on your network, you typically wouldn’t have a secondary SysLog receiver to gather log information. ViewPoint provides good visibility into network traffic usage after the summarizer runs, but there are definitely some instances where you need to […]
Reset Administrator Password on a Quickbooks Company File
There can be several reasons to reset the administrator password on a Quickbooks company file. For whatever reason, here is the way to reset the password. Before getting started it will be beneficial to have the following item at hand: -The Version of Quickbooks you are using. -Product License Key for Quickbooks. -The location of the Company file […]
Using an alternate port for Terminal Services (RDP)
There can be several reasons to use an alternate port for remote terminal server access. Perhaps you have only one public IP address, but need to publish two terminal servers on that address. Perhaps you want to hide the server using a non-standard port so hackers don’t see the terminal server as easily. Whatever the […]
RRAS Adapter’s DNS Entry Causing Issues with Member Servers
Today I worked on an issue with a client who has a Small Business Server providing AD/DNS, Exchange, and RRAS services among others. They also have a member server that does web content filtering. The problem was that after a patching session and reboots, the web filtering server would no longer accept remote desktop sessions. […]
Microsoft ending support for older OSes and Service packs. Are you one of the ones needing to update?
Summary: Basically if you’re up to date on XP and Vista you’re good. If your running Windows 2000 machines you need to upgrade to a newer version of Windows to keep getting updates and support. The following is taken from Microsoft Information and displayed here for Convenience: Windows XP SP2 & Windows Vista RTM End […]
Viewing the $form and $form_state arrays when working with Webforms
Recently I was working on an additional validation script for a webform on a client’s site. It was particularly frustrating because I couldn’t seem to locate the variable I needed for my validation. I didn’t see this anywhere else but this helped a ton and, after figuring this out, I was able to knock out […]
Exchange GRT backups to a Dell RD1000
We are primarily a Dell shop, and one thing I’ve found out is that Backup Exec doesn’t always play nice with the Dell RD1000 on Exchange GRT backups. If you are overwriting the RD1000 cassettes Backup Exec will erase the normal backups, but will leave and build up multiple copies of the Exchange Image Folders […]
Need help finding what is causing backups to go over the media capacity?
Ever have backups working with free space on the tape/disk then one day jump to being over tape/disk capacity? Maybe someone backed up their computer to the server or synced their data to the server. It is hard to try and find what has changed, but with DiskData you can look to see which directories […]
How to copy a local user profile to a domain user profile in XP Pro.
First create a new local user profile with administrator rights. Then log into the domain user account if it has never been logged into before. Once logged into the domain user account, it will look like whatever the default user account settings are currently set to. Next reboot the computer and log into the new […]
