Matt Simmons Networking – The Crib Sheet When anyone mentions network masks and the 'seven layer model' we all nod wisely and hope not to be asked... 15 November 2011 14 min read
Jaap Wesselius Recover a Mailbox Server in A Database Availability Group (DAG) When one mailbox server in a Database Availability Group (DAG) is accidentally deleted, then it is supposedly easy to fix... 10 October 2011 4 min read
General Wesley David in General High Availability or High Recoverability? Having pierced the veil of confusion surrounding High Availability, Wesley David finds himself asked (and being asked) whether HA is... 01 August 2011 20 min read
Brien Posey Network Administrators Past, Present, and Future Even in the short time that PCs have been signficantly networked, what it means to be a SysAdmin has changed... 11 July 2011 10 min read
David Njoku Readying your Oracle Database for Your First Apex Application APEX can be a great way to create an application rapidly on an Oracle Database. Although it is generally straightforward,... 14 June 2011 9 min read
Johan Veldhuis Migrating from OCS 2007 R2 to Lync: Part 2 In the story so far, Johan has described how to check that the migration from your OCS to Lync is... 07 June 2011 13 min read
Peter Raganitsch Multi-Language database applications using Oracle Apex It isn't straightforward to design a database application that has to provide text data in several languages. There are several... 03 June 2011 12 min read
Wesley David Be the Puppet Master! Control Multiple PCs with one Keyboard and Mouse In the average IT department, geek-credibility is bound up with the number of monitors you are simultaneously using. What about... 20 May 2011 10 min read
Jaap Wesselius Office365 and Lync Online Having gotten us up and running with the basics of Office365, Jaap Wesselius now dives deeper, walking us through the... 10 May 2011 11 min read
Johan Veldhuis A look at Microsoft Lync 2010 Lync manages office communications such as voice calls, video calls, instant messages, meetings, and shared whiteboard sessions all from a... 22 March 2011 12 min read
Wesley David Game-over! Gaining Physical access to a computer Security requires defense in depth. The cleverest intrusion detection system, combined with the best antivirus, won't help you if a... 15 March 2011 11 min read
Jaap Wesselius SMTP Routing Changed in an Exchange Database Availability Group In Exchange Server 2010 it is possible to make the system more resilient by creating a Database Availability Group (DAG)... 03 February 2011 3 min read
Wesley David 7 Things that High Availability is Not Wesley has heard High Availablity touted as all sorts of technological cure-all for busy SysAdmins and DBAs, and now he's... 13 January 2011 8 min read
Dr. Masha Petrova 5 Steps to Making Your Boss Read Your Technical Reports As an IT professional, you probably find it hard to communicate effectively with your less-than-technically-adept manager. Dr. Masha Petrova is... 18 November 2010 10 min read
Johan Veldhuis Monitoring Mailbox Moves Mailboxes moves happen all the time, and given how precious the data in mailboxes can be, you should know exactly... 17 November 2010 13 min read
Brien Posey PST Horror Stories Brien has been on the front line of Systems Administration for long enough to both respect and fear PST files.... 16 November 2010 10 min read
Jaap Wesselius Importing PSTs with PowerShell in Exchange 2010 SP1 Unless you use Red Gate's PST Importer, the import and export of PST files with Exchange 2010 is a complex... 21 October 2010 8 min read
Neil Hobson Exchange 2010 DAG Creation and Configuration, Part 2 Now that you've created your first DAG in Exchange 2010, you'll need to be sure it's correctly configured for failovers... 20 October 2010 16 min read
Michel de Rooij Connecting the Disconnected in Exchange 2010 Since Exchange 2000, and the introduction of the document retention period it has been much easier to recover mailboxes, disconnect... 22 September 2010 12 min read
Jaap Wesselius Address List Segregation or the "Hoster Edition" of Exchange Server 2010 SP1 – don't even think about it! Although very tempting to use, the Hoster Edition of Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is not an alternative for the enterprise... 20 September 2010 4 min read
