Certainly using and testing backup and restore procedure is one of the most important tasks of any system administrator. In most of the cases this process is well documented and the regular tests provide peace of the mind. But . . . You always get the odd one that makes your heart race. After what seemed […]? →Read more
In a recent attempt to create a full system backup of a Windows 2008 R2 server with Hyper-V installed and a few virtual machines running on this physical box, the backup job failed after a while. After some investigation an error has been discovered in the System Event Log: Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-Windows-Backup Date: […]? →Read more
Isn’t life funny – every time you really need to remember something, no matter how hard you try, it just won’t click. Same in my profession. There have been cases where i could not recall a command that i just needed to troubleshoot this or that. And sometimes even if you try to google it, […]? →Read more
Came across sites recently where the information store process on an SBS 2011 box tends to take most of the available memory. In normal circumstances Exchange 2010 is designed to use as much memory as possible for performance optimization. As long as Exchnage 2010 is running on it’s own, there’s no problem with that. The […]? →Read more