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Blog Post: SAN, SAN and SAN

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I can't believe how important storage has become. I am working on some Hosted Exchange projects, and disk makes or breaks the environment. Dave Lalor from our internal IT group wrote an awesome paper with HP about their EVA storage. Unfortunately, it doesn’t apply to EMC or Hitachi . Matt Gossage also...

on 15 Jul 2005
Blog Post: Virtual PC/Server Differencing Disks

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Thank to my buddy Raul Camacho, I played with differencing disks on Virtual PC. It is a pretty cool little feature, but it causes havoc when you want to apply security patches on your base OS. Still, in Development environments where security patches and service pack levels should only change when production...

on 22 Jun 2005
Blog Post: Configure your server wizard, never build a server without it!

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I don't think I have ever used the "Configure your server wizard" in Windows 2000 or Server 2003. But, I just spent the day with our lovely support people at Microsoft trying to determine why a white screen mysteriously named "res://ws03res.dll/SecOOBE.hta" kept popping up when our developers logged...

on 29 Jun 2005
Blog Post: Small Business Server 2003 Upgrade from Hell

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Last week, I decided to take a few vacation days and fly out to Ogden, Utah to help my wife’s old company upgrade from Small Business Server (SBS) 2000 to SBS 2003. They are a small, 10 person operation that manufactures high end ski and board apparel ( www.descente.net or www.ridedna.com ). The have...

on 3 Nov 2005