Entries from January 2008

Microsoft is Coming to Lexington 01/17/2008

Date January 7, 2008

Microsoft is coming to Lexington, Kentucky next week! Thursday January 17, 2008Theater-Regal Hamburg Pavilion Stadium 16  1949 Starshoot RoadLexington Kentucky 40509 Microsoft TS2 EventStart: 1/17/2008 1:00 PM EasternEnd:  1/17/2008 5:00 PM EasternRegistration Fee: NoPrimary Target Audience:  Microsoft Partnershttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032361986 Microsoft TechNet EventStart: 1/17/2008 8:00 AM EasternEnd:  1/17/2008 12:00 PM EasternRegistration Fee: NoPrimary Target Audience:  IT Professionalshttp://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032359668 [...]

Posted in Community, Free, Live Events, Microsoft, SMB Community, TS2, Training Comments 639 Comments »

APC UPS Serial Number Trick

Date January 7, 2008

Lately we’ve seen quite a few battery backups that have been either losing communication with the server, or PowerChute Business Edition is saying that the battery is old and needs to be replaced. This APC tip today comes courtesy of Cory Rammer, MCSA: “An APC tech let me in on a little trick on how [...]

Posted in Hacks, Helpdesk Comments 132 Comments »

My Favorite New Blog of 2007 Award

Date January 5, 2008

I read a LOT of blogs. And by a lot, I confess that it sometimes creeps up to triple digits (in feeds, not just posts). So, since this is the first Saturday of the year, I’m doing the annual pruning the dead wood from the RSS reader. Who gets the axe? The stale, the blog [...]

Posted in Blog, Community, Mac, SBS & Microsoft Blogs Comments 565 Comments »

Crazy Screenshots – Defrags

Date January 4, 2008

More joy from the helpdesk.  This time I’m sharing some crazy hard drive fragmentation screen shots: Sony Laptop: 750 GB drive: I’ve got some other defrag pictures lying around, but these are the screenshots I had saved in OneNote. Good defragmentation links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defragmentation  http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp  Rating 3.00 out of 5

Posted in Crazy Screen Shots, Helpdesk, Humor Comments 495 Comments »

Will 32-bit Exchange Work on 64-bit WS2003

Date January 4, 2008

From the mailbag today: Question: It is my understanding that you can’t run 32-bit Exchange on 64-bit Windows Server 2003. Is that correct? Answer: On 64-bit hardware w/32-bit OS, yes. On 64-bit hardware with Windows Server 64-bit OS, no. "The x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003 seamlessly support the running of 32-bit programs. However, on [...]

Posted in Exchange Comments 704 Comments »

The Energizer SBS 4.5 Server

Date January 3, 2008

Spotted in the wild today – an SBS 4.5 server that hasn’t been rebooted in 1.6 YEARS!  Craziness I tell ya! System Idle Process = 14,310 hours / 24 hours per day = 596.25 days = 1.6 years. And before you ask, yes this is a single processor box without hyper-threading.  It’s hard to believe [...]

Posted in Crazy Screen Shots, SBS Comments 1,097 Comments »

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