by Dean | May 21, 2014 | Error, Exchange, General IT, IT, Microsoft
Had a customer who is using Exchange 365 as their mail host. All of a sudden people who they were emailing started to receive the winmail.dat attachments instead of the correct email. Now we all know that winmail.dat in incompatible message formats (See KB: 278061) in...
by Dean | Feb 5, 2014 | Backup, General IT, IT, Restore, SharePoint
A customer wanted to archive Share point sites when they were finished with them to a file to keep the share point site clean. After consultation it was decided that exporting the site was the best option. Now it has time for one of the sites to be imported back in....
by Dean | Jan 15, 2014 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I know that this title sounds a little nasty, or broad. It was originally going to be called Sabotage, but after some thought I realised that this disaster may not be intentional. It may be ignorance, or a series of mistakes, laziness or sabotage plain and simple. I...
by Dean | Dec 20, 2013 | General IT, IT
Had a server recently that needed to have Power shell re-installed onto the server. After performing the re-install a heap of strange errors starting to occur on the server. The main one that triggered the alert of is that the Exchange Management Console...
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...