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...
by Dean | Oct 24, 2014 | Backup, Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, monitoring, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
The first thing that I wanted to do was to set-up a system that showed very quickly if the backups were running correctly. Originally checking backups was a tedious process. I would have to SSH to the box and check that the files were there, which was slow and...
by Dean | Oct 16, 2014 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, PHP, Programming
So I wanted to display a 4 column table as part of a site. The issue was that I didnt know how many items I was going to have to display. It may be 1, it may be 3, it may be 4 or 5 or even 24. I don like to repeat code unless I absolutely have to. So I wrote something...
