The mission if you choose to accept is to install Windows 2000 on an HP ML310 G4. Sound simple, except that HP does not support this configuration. To make things even more interesting, onboard SATA RAID!
Disaster Recovery and backup software
Prepping two servers to demonstrate disaster recovery using Veritas Intelligent Disaster Recovery. Based on track record, not very optimistic but never say die! Read more for update. 22 Jun 07 The basic steps of preparing for a disaster include: a.…
PCI-e and PCI-X
PCI-E or PCI-Express is the smallish version whereas PCI-X is the larger and older cousin. Most definitely not physically compatible. Recently I was asked to install a tape drive and its SCSI card into a server. The server specs list…
Outlook OST problems.
66.6% success rate on getting my letters published.
Automatic Updates does not work
Recently I found out the hard way that you need to regularly install the patches downloaded by Automatic Updates. Strangely when I decided to click on the yellow shield to install, it kept stuck at “Initializing installation”. I have seen…
What to do if your E00.log is missing
Sometimes the Exchange server hiccups or your antivirus software decided that one of the precious transaction log files contains a Netsky virus. Then end result is the same. Exchange store is dismounted. Remounting it only says a certain log file…
SPUG server is down
A tip on troubleshooting a very sluggish computer
Recently my computer suddenly became very slow. The SVCHOST service will start and consume some 80 to 100% of CPU and RAM shot up to 80K++
What they don’t teach you in your MCSE course.
I have just completed the server modules for MCSE 2003. Strangely there a few things in the administrator’s life that are critical but not listed. I will attempt to cover them here.