VI 3.5 Fast Track Training this Week

I’m at VMware training this week for my VCP so I won’t have much time to check on the site this week.  I’m barely able to keep up with work while in class. 
A quick tip for you VCP candidates: “take ONLY the vmware approved courses, NOT the vmware bootcamps that are not approved by vmware”. VMware [...]

New Projects this Quarter 3 of 2008

Now that I’m almost done with the VMware VI3.5 installation with the iSCSI SAN, it’s time to think about the next big tech project.  3 big projects will come up during Q3 of this year

Upgrade Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007
Setup Microsft EPM solution (Project server 2007 and Portfolio 2007)
Migrate from Numara TrackIT! 8.5 to an [...]

Changing the site

New Changes This Way Come.
1. I’m changing the site’s categories and structure to reflect work and technology in general. 
2. I’m creating a new site called “The Fascinating World of Life” for life, adventure, travel, etc. (stuff not about work)
 
 

Exchange 2003 mailbox restore and Backup Exec 10d issue

About a week ago I was asked to do a restore of mail for a user between last august and this January. Naturally I thought this was going to be easy because how hard could a mailbox restore be using the Recovery storage group. However I would get an error stating that the [...]

Going Back to School!! Go Blue Demons

For a while now I have though about going back to grad school for my master’s degree at Depaul University. Up until a month ago I was considering going for the Masters in Telecom or the Computers, Network Security field but that all changed. I still want to learn about security and telecom [...]

Editing Folder rights on the Server Pt-3: Revoking Permissions

Follow the same stuff from part 2 but with one change to the script:
for /F “tokens=1-10 delims= ” %%a in (userdir.txt) do xcacls %%a /R Your_Domain\%%a /e
This removes the user from the ACL.

Editing Folder rights on the Server Pt-2: Granting Permissions

Ok if you have the problem I said about below this is the script I used XCacls with a script to modify the ACLs on the folders. It’s less time consuming to do it this way. Some things to assume are:

Inheritence is set on the folders you are modifying the permissions for. [...]

Editing Folder rights on the Server Pt-1: My Rant

Currently our filie system permissions are screwed up. The way the file permissions are set are allow everyone NTFS permission for all folders and files but restrict them under the share permissions. For anyone who thinks this is a good way to do permissions I’ll tell you why this is wrong:
1. If [...]

BES and dailight savings time issue

We just came across this posting from RIM about the new MS patch that’s supposed to change the daylight savings time.  It seems it clears the besadmin “send-as” permission.  Here’s the webpage for more info
http://www.blackberry.com/select/dst2007/?CPID=EMC-dstpp&MIG=45E4BD0C691068FAE10000000A659D4A

Automatic VMWare Server backups using Backup Exec

Have you wanted to backup vmware sessions through backup exec? This is the way I do it and it works well for me. The script is scalable in case you add more vm sessions and if you port the script to another server.
We recently setup a Production VMWare server 1.01 environment for our [...]