Backing Up Exchange Server 2007 With Backup Exec
The Problem – Backing Up Exchange 2007 in Backup Exec It’s not that difficult, but if you’ve never done it before, there are two gotcha’s you’ll need to watch out for. The Solution – MAPI CDO and Exchange Management Tools On the backup server, you’ll need to install the Exchange Management Tools. You can download […]
Adding Public Folder Replicas to Many Public Folders
Every now and again you just have to add a server to every public folder’s replicas list (like, when you configure a new mailbox server). It’s pretty easy to do. Open up an Exchange Management Shell, and type in this command: AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1 -TopPublicFolder -ServerToAdd YourNewServer Give it a little while to replicate. You can move […]
Long Running Tasks in ASP.NET
Update: code examples posted, see below. Sometimes users require functionality that takes a long time, and as software developers it’s our job to make sure these tasks get done in a user-friendly manner. Client applications (console/windows apps, etc) figured this out a long time ago – they have a bevy of tools like progress bars, […]
A Visual Hard Disk Profiler – SpaceSniffer
MakeUseof.com posted a review of an interesting hard disk analysis freeware application that uses a Treemap to visually map disk contents. The application works fairly quickly. I downloaded and tested it with my laptop this evening and it works pretty well. As you know, I like visual analysis tools. I know what your thinking….a hard […]
Cloropleth Maps in Tableau
This morning I came upon an RSS feed through Joe Mako and Clearly and Simply which is a brilliant work around to the lack of truly flexible choropleth map capability in Tableau. While Tableau does do some choropleth mapping of US Census data at the State, County, Zipcode and Area Code levels, what if your […]
Choropeth Maps in Tableau Courtesy of Giedre
For you Tablaeu users that are interested in stretching Tableau’s data mapping capability, Joe Mako shared this excellent piece from Clearly and Simply which was written by a very smart lady from Republic of Lithuania You will find sample Tableau packaged workbooks in the post. Giedre’s post provides (3) work-arounds which allow Tableau to display […]
How to Rebuild Outlook Email Autocomplete
Recently my Outlook email autocomplete quit working. This is the nice feature that will autocomplete email addresses after you’ve entered them in one time previously. This saves a ton of time so that you don’t have to: Look up email addresses for people that you email infrequently Type in the entire email address for […]
InterWorks Vision and Roadmap – The Employee
InterWorks Vision & Roadmap Part 4: The EmployeeDo you have what it takes? I grew up in a small college town and spent most of my life in student housing. Most of my neighborhood friends were international students whose parents were in the country for the sole purpose of a college education and pursuing future opportunity. […]
Time Tracking and The Printable CEO
Depending on your role and your typical daily activities, tracking time can be a very easy task or a nightmare. If you work on a single task associated with a single project for 8-10 hours per day, then time tracking is simple and you do not understand why I am writing this. For me, my […]
The 2009 Oklahoma Oil and Gas Trade Expo
I attended the 2009 Oklahoma Oil and Gas Trade Expo yesterday with Tyler Remington, our LandBoss salesman, and Aaron Confer, our InterWorks salesman. The expo was in the Cox Pavilion on the Oklahoma State Fair Grounds. Lunch was catered by Head Country Barbecue, and in my opinion made the expo a success all by itself, but […]
