This has been out for awhile now, but after having seen National Treasure 2 last night it seemed appropriate.  When you install Exchange 2007 it always installs in the same administrative group - FYDIBOHF23SPDLT.  It also uses a routing group for compatibility, named DWBGZMFD01QNBJR.

What does it mean?  If you shift every letter/number 1 place […]

Just stumbled across this product today, looks pretty slick. It’s a backup/copy tool inspired by robocopy but can utilize VSS to snapshot live files, and then copy the snapshots.
What is HoboCopy?
HoboCopy is a backup/copy tool. It is inspired by robocopy in both name and in functionality. It differs greatly from robocopy, however, in […]

I’m pretty excited to get to attend VMworld this year in San Francisco (just over a month away). One thing I found out that should be interesting is that VMware has announced it will allow 3rd party vendors to develop virtual switches for ESX and Cisco is expected to be the first company with […]

One thing I recently ran across is I had a 7000 series BladeSystem chassis to install that had 2 Cisco Switch Modules and 2 Brocade SAN switch modules with it.
Once everything was powered up I connected to the OA/iLO port and went through the HP setup and got to the part of configuring network settings […]

Purpose: To create a redundant networking setup between a NetApp FAS270 and a Cisco switch

This example uses 2 vlans - 10 and 50
On the Cisco switch:
conf t
interface ga 0/1
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 1 mode on
end
wr mem
On the NetApp:
vif create multi vif0 e0a e0b
vlan create -g on vif0 10
vlan add vif0 50
ifconfig vif0-10 [ip […]

Recently I ran into a problem adding an additional email domain to our Exchange box. After doing a lot of digging I finally found a solution for this.
I had gone through first verifying the MX record with dnsstuff.com, then adding the domain to the recipient policy and finally verifying the ‘Apply Recipient Filter’ was enabled […]

One thing I ran across recently was when using manual configuration for LCS 2005 the client was able to connect fine, but when using automatic configuration it would return a certificate error.  As you probably know for automatic configuration to work you need a sip.domain.com DNS entry as well as the (for TLS setup) _sipinternaltls […]

Not sure if anyone would ever need this but there might come a time I need to install it again so hey, it’s going in my blog.
Introduction
APF is a policy based iptables firewall system designed for ease of use and configuration. It employs a subset of features to satisfy the veteran
Linux user and the novice […]

If you use GPMC on a Windows XP workstation and have tried to configure wireless settings you may have wondered why that setting does not show up.  One fix for this was to create/edit the policy directly on the domain controller and the Wireless setting will show.
Here is another way, copy the following 3 files […]

This is actually a very easy process, backing up the database is done with the following command:
smigrate -w http://server[/site] -f filename.fwp -u domain\id -pw *
This will prompt you for your Domain password, enter it and it will begin backing up your site.
 
Migrating a site:
1. Create a new virtual server in IIS and add the appropriate […]