Category Archives: General Information

How to connect to admin shares in Windows 10

Posted on January 19, 2017 by John

I recently started using my Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade to Windows 10 and noticed among other frustrating issues an inability to connect to another computer’s administrative (the $ shares) share. As you can imaging there are time befitting the king … Continue reading →

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How to arrange the order of Outlook Profiles

Posted on November 9, 2016 by admin

Outlook 2010 and other editions as well support multiple eMail profiles. An Outlook profile can include a single mail account (POP, IMAP, MAPI, or what have you) or it can include multiple ones. An example of this would be to add all … Continue reading →

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A Customer Service (or not) Story

Posted on October 20, 2016 by John

Generally speaking, I don’t write about problems I encounter in purchasing goods or services whether on-line or in a retail store. Stories are just not that interesting as they usually involve a little inconvenience in the time and effort it … Continue reading →

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Using Windows Task Scheduler to Launch Veeam PowerShell

Posted on December 17, 2014 by John

Veeam Backup and Replication provides a PowerShell scripting environment to help administrators manage their Veeam installation. Veeam Backup Powershell SDK as it is known is a PowerShell snap-in. You’ve probably seen it as an option that is available but not … Continue reading →

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Veeam Extract Utility

Posted on July 25, 2014 by admin

Veeam 7 now has an “extract” utility that can be used to recover Virtual Machines (VMs) from a full backup (.VBK) file. This is a perfect solution for someone using Reversed Incremental mode. Reversed Incremental  means the most current backup … Continue reading →

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Veeam B&R Version 7 Upgrade Experience

Posted on July 9, 2014 by admin

Sometimes moving, upgrading, migrating – call it what you may – an infrastructure application from one major release to another proves to be a tedious process. In the case of Veeam Backup and Replication, for my involvement, it wasn’t so … Continue reading →

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Veeam Backup and VMware Independent Disks

Posted on June 26, 2014 by John

Virtual Machine snapshots may grow in size in a highly transactional server. As a result, the removal may take significant time to complete and the final merge oreration may cause a network interruption. Using Independent disks for SQL data may help alleviate the problem. Continue reading →

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Using Multiple Physical NICs in Hyper-V

Posted on June 16, 2014 by John

I have a lab environment that I use to “try before implementing “things” Microsoft. The lab is hosted on a PC running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. The physical Hyper-V server may host at least 4 guest Windows servers … Continue reading →

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What’s happening during a Veeam backup

Posted on December 8, 2013 by John

I recently had a conversation with an associate concerning Windows Failover Clusters failing over at the time a Veeam backup job is running. The situation involves two virtual machines running Windows Server 2012 configured as nodes in a Failover Cluster. … Continue reading →

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