by Dean | Nov 19, 2013 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I think it is safe to say that server outages are the most common real world disaster. Just thinking about these issues I can think of a number of server issues recently that would fall into this category for example. Server with single power supply had a failed power...
by Dean | Nov 19, 2013 | Backup, General IT, IT
SBS 2011 Server had a failed power supply. After replacing the power supply and attempting to boot all services started correctly except the DHCP Server. The service would not start and just exited saying to check the event logs. Located in the system logs were the...
by Dean | Nov 1, 2013 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT
Just a quick note about this article. While writing this article I experienced an internet outage for a little over 12 hours. Imagine the irony. Disaster 1: Loss of internet This is probably one of the most likely issues to occur this day and age. Give that the...
by Dean | Oct 30, 2013 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT
Disaster recovery in IT is always one of those last minute things that never really gets enough attention. That is until it is to late and you are in the middle of a disaster. So why is this the case? Why do we constantly ignore the very real threat that...
by Dean | Oct 12, 2013 | Backup, IT
Had a lot of issues with a virus called CryptoLocker. A scary piece of work. Usually it is only discovered because staff start to find that files are full or rubbish which is because the virus has encrypted the files. The virus remains silent until its job of...
by Dean | Sep 11, 2013 | Backup, IT, Restore, SharePoint
Adding Office Web Apps to SharePoint 2013 I thought would be a fairly simple process. We performed the installation of the web apps server and then added the New-SPWOPIBinding for the web apps and then chagned the SPWOPIZone to External-https (All fairly simple) That...
