Downloaded and installed SP3 to see how it goes and I’m happy to report no fires. it’s just a roll-up of all the other patches so I wasn’t expecting much but at least it didn’t go service pack 2 on me and crash the computers. The only trouble I had was the computer went into […]

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Here is a problem/solution that happens to us from time to time on our Astaro Firewall.  Not very often, mind you, but enough to mention.
Problem:  All of a sudden the Internet seems to slow to a crawl and or down all together, using Astaro Security Gateway and the proxy is in transparent mode.  
Solution:  Login to […]

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The other day, I upgraded to Vista SP1 and really haven’t noticed any significant changes but here are some things that I have discovered in the past 24 hours since the upgrade.

Copying files to a network drive is faster.  First thing I noticed is that I didn’t get the “calculating time to copy files” message, […]

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Vista SP1 has been out for a couple of weeks now so I thought it was time to upgrade to see how it goes.  There are two ways to update your Vista and that is either through Windows Update or downloading the entire package, which is about 435 megabytes.  I decided to do the whole […]

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Problem: 
My backups were getting pretty big and I needed to make sure that what I was backing up was really necesarry.   I’m using BackupExec 9.1 and the logs let me know a bit on the size of what I’m backing up but what I really needed to know is what folders sizes were.  Within Windows, […]

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Problem:  I was called out yesterday to fix a network problem regarding connectivity to the server.  Certain users were able to access the internet but couldn’t connect to the server, exchange/file server (same server).  If you would try to acces server shares or Outlook, you would get an error saying that the server is unavailable.  […]

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Problem:  Installed Server 2003 SP2 on my exchange server and all went well.  I, however, had issues accessessing files and my mailbox.  I could access all the other servers fine but not this one.  To top it off, the other users in the office weren’t having any issues so I knew it was a problem […]

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Sunrocket Dead; What now?
As many have heard the 2nd largest indepent VOIP provider bit the dust about two weeks ago.  I was unfortunately one of the “victims” of this Enron like callapse.  Lucky for

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I know that shadow copy has been around for a few years but an experience I had the other day makes me want to restate the importance of this useful tool.

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Today, I had an intersting problem with Exchange 2003 and I thought I would share it with everyone since there was hardly anything online for this fix.
The Problem:
The information store went down and would not come back up. After checking the event logs, I found the following error:

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