Category Archives: Tips

Filezilla download exceeds 100%

Posted on December 3, 2013 by John

I recently ran into a situation using Filezilla to download a large file through a VPN that caused the download to exceed 100%. In fact, if I didn’t stop it, the download would have continued. If you do stop the … Continue reading →

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Veeam Backup & Replication Computer Trust Relationship

Posted on June 24, 2013 by John

Veeam Backup and Replication, is a fantastic product for managing VM backup, replication to other data centers, and recovery. You can find details on the Backup and Replication product as well as on the monitoring application called VeeamOne at the … Continue reading →

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System Center DPM Application Backup-Restore – SQL

Posted on May 3, 2013 by John

This blog post shows how to use Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) to backup databases on a Windows 2008 R2 server running SQL Server2008R2. System Center DPM has the ability to backup and restore data files on direct … Continue reading →

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Veeam Backup & Replication

Posted on April 21, 2013 by John

I recently had an opportunity to participate in another backup solution. This project used Veeam Backup & Replication and the VeeamOne Management Suite. You can get product information, whitepapers, technical references, videos and the inevitable marketing pitches and testimonials on the … Continue reading →

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System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 – Implementation

Posted on November 20, 2012 by John

This post is based upon personal experiences engineering the deployment and operation of an an Enterprise Backup solution using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (DPM). This was a migration effort that took place from July, 2012 until November, … Continue reading →

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Windows Update not working

Posted on March 9, 2012 by John

Recently, I started my Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Server and found that the Windows Update Service Control Panel applet in a “red” state. Imagine a day when there are Microsoft updates but Windows Update is broken. The service is … Continue reading →

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Blogger vs WordPress

Posted on October 21, 2011 by John

I had recently returned from a vacation and wanted a platform to showcase the story and the pictures that I took on the trip. According to No1Reviews.com (http://photo-sharing-websites.no1reviews.com/), the top 10 photo sharing sites are 1) SmugMug, 2) Phanfare, 3) … Continue reading →

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SQL 2008 Failover Clustering – test

Posted on October 15, 2011 by John

SQL Server 2008 R2 supports two High Availability features: Database Mirroring and Failover Clustering. Database Mirroring has been covered in a previous post, SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring.  This blog post will cover the creation of a SQL Server Failover … Continue reading →

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Gmail-Outlook Calendar/Contact Sync

Posted on September 26, 2011 by John

In an earlier post, I described how to integrate Outlook 2010 with Gmail using IMAP. I described the calendar and contact synchronization and mentioned a third-party tool that’s been suggested by a number of individual in forums across the Internet. … Continue reading →

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Gmail-Outlook IMAP Integration

Posted on September 10, 2011 by John

In a previous post, I described how to synchronize a Gmail calendar with Outlook 2010 using the IMAP email protocol. This post will describe how to create an Outlook profile that will support multiple IMAP Gmail e-mail accounts, a contact … Continue reading →

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