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VOTE for the Top Free vSphere Tools of 2010

August 30, 2010
VOTE for the Top Free vSphere Tools of 2010

David wants your input! Head on over to VMwareVideos.com and vote for your favorite free tool! David will calculate the results and announce those rankings in video form – before the end of 2010.
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How to backup Sharepoint 3.0 site when using a Sharepoint Hosting Vendor

August 4, 2010

SharePoint sites are not actually moved from one location or server to another; rather, they are backed up to a file, and then the content or site is re-created from the backup file.  The Backup and Restore feature in Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is...
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Thin provisioning with vSphere

July 22, 2010

With vSphere 4, thin provisioning was supported at virtual disk level through vCenter GUI. With thin provisioning, networked storage space utilization is improved because of dynamic allocation of storage to the virtual machines. vSphere has built in capabilities to provision, manage and monitor thin...
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July 30, 2010 – System Administrator Appreciation Day

July 21, 2010
July 30, 2010 – System Administrator Appreciation Day

July 30, 2010 (Last Friday Of July) 11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day  (http://www.sysadminday.com/) A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system,...
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Top 10 Windows Built-In Command Line Tools

July 21, 2010
Top 10 Windows Built-In Command Line Tools

1 - systeminfo – Have a need to display operating system configuration information for a local or remote machine, including service pack levels? Then systeminfo is the tool to use. When I need to...
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General DBA Best Practices

July 20, 2010

Best Practices for Becoming an Exceptional SQL Server DBA Join (or start) a local SQL Server users group (chapters.sqlpass.org ) Join SQL PASS (www.sqlpass.org) Attend at least one professional conference each year....
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Using Command lines for Outlook

July 14, 2010

To use switches, at the Start menu, Run command type: Outlook /switch Occasionally you’ll need to use the full path to Outlook, so the command line looks like: “C:\Program...
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Fix Slow Outlook Email Address Auto Complete

July 11, 2010

Problem 1 Using Microsoft Outlook 2007, the autocomplete feature runs slowly when VSE Buffer Overflow protection is enabled Problem 2 There is a delay after typing in the first few characters of...
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How to consolidate Archive / PST file and merge them together?

July 8, 2010

How to consolidate Archive / PST file  and merge them together? Sadly, there is no easy way to merge them directly but there are some workarounds for this. As...
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Useful commands for Windows administrators

July 7, 2010

Notes: (1) Commands that use external, or third party, or non-native utilities contain hyperlinks to these utilities’ download sites.   (2) Replace command arguments displayed in italics with your own values....
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