by Dean | Jan 11, 2015 | Backup, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, Restore
I figured that if I keep talking about backups on this website I had better have a pretty good setup in place at home. This isn’t something that I took lightly either, it needed to be flawless, automatic, easy and reliable. So I considered all of my options from...
by Dean | Dec 29, 2014 | Error, Exchange, General IT, IT, Outlook
I have just finished an upgrade from Exchange 2007 (in a SBS 2008 environment) to Exchange 2013. There are a lot of changes when going from 2008 to 2013 but am glad that I was able to be part of the update. We ran into a few minor glitches along the road but overall...
by Dean | Nov 19, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Microsoft
While setting up a mixed environment server I was continually annoyed by the MAC machines adding those hidden files into the Windows File Shares. (You know the ones the .DS_Store, ._.DS_Store, .Trashes, ._Filename) After considering a few possibilities such as a...
by Dean | Nov 15, 2014 | General IT, IT, SharePoint, Tutorial
Every time I go to update a SharePoint server I always have to look it up. So I figured that it would be a better use of my time to document the procedure next time ran through the process. So this is how to update a SharePoint 2013 site. Step 1 – Get the update...
by Dean | Nov 5, 2014 | General IT, IT, Linux, Security
Steps for setting up public/private key authentication over SSH. Download and run PuttyGen from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Click on the Generate button to generate the key set On the server run the following commands ##From Home...
