This is the most basic and important operational task. All data should be backed up as frequently as possible. This is to protect against logical data corruption or data loss. The server’s hard disk is protected by RAID 5, but…
The importance of the domain controller
The first step of any site disaster recovery (DR) is the recovery of the domain controller. This server holds all the user and service accounts and controls the rest of the servers. Without it, the entire IT infrastructure won’t really…
Practical disaster recovery plans
I thought I share some tips on creating a practical disaster recovery plan. Most people has a misconception that such plans are large complex and ultimately expensive. Well I am going to show you how you can have a practical…
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SQL 2005 cluster upgrade.
The main SQL server is on a SQL 2005 cluster. It is time for an upgrade to SQL 2008. This will be an interim measure until the hardware refresh the later half of 2012. The main aim of the process is…
Windows 2008 R2 server cannot login.
My SCCM server in the midst of deploying new clients when it started behaving strangely. Deployments started failing and progressively the server operations degraded and Windows Explorer stopped working. After a reboot, a domain user cannot login, all that is…
SQL Database showing Suspect.
I got a call saying one of the SQL database was unable to connect. In the management studio (SQL 2008), the database is flagged as “Suspect” Microsoft suggests looking at the SQL server error log. All it says was connection…
Getting Things Done or GTD
This book has been around for some time and some people really swear by it. I am currently into my first month of doing this. Collect. Collect all your the items that you have to do into a “collection bucket/s”. …
SMS 2003 extensions
This can be a life saver SMS2003. Sometimes you want to trigger one remote client to do an inventory. There isn’t an simple way to do this. After some noodling, I got this. Advanced Client Actions. It will do the…
How long should you stay on your job?
I came across this article in Slashdot. Originally posted in IT Knowledge, it talks about long you should stay on your job. Most comments in Slashdot, agreed, to go up in post or salary, you have to go out. You…