Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

What do Those Exchange Recipient Icons Mean

This is probably a “captain obvious” post, but I’ve never paid attention to the icons in the Exchange 2010 EMC.  Wondering what about their meaning, I searched around and figured it out: This icon simply means that the mailbox move … Continue reading

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Doing it the hard way – ZFS, Dedup, and OpenSolaris

This post has been a few weekends in the making, but I’m here today with a clean deduplicating ZFS file system in the lab. I started the project with a relatively basic goal, replace my current Debian Linux backup server … Continue reading

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IBM BMC Remote Control

Looking on IBM’s website for how to perform basic Baseboard Management commands can be difficult at best. They tend to want you to be running Director or some management package to leverage the tool. What if you just want to … Continue reading

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These are just a few of my favorite things..

Linux screen capture/screen shot utility: Shutter For Windows, screen shots: ZScreen Pod catching app: gPodder (Thanks Linux Outlaws )

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Allowing Your Backup Agent to Set Enterprise Vault Backup Modes

One of the interesting things about Enterprise Vault is that it allows you to configure it so that there is no risk of email being fully archived without it being backed up first. For that process to be completed though, … Continue reading

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