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Computer Technology: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Exchange Servers - A Comparative Analysis
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Monday, February 2, 2009. High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Exchange Servers - A Comparative Analysis. Email has become a mission-critical application for most businesses today and it has long been a challenge to backup and restore email information. If a crash occurs and if the data is not restored, it can have devastating consequences for a business. So it is imperative for companies to effectively backup and recover data and protect them from huge losses in productivity and downtime. Possibi...
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Computer Technology: A look at some more AX4/iSCSI availability diagrams
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009. A look at some more AX4/iSCSI availability diagrams. Your comments on AX4 and iSCSI high availability were very informative and provided a number of idea for improving on the described availability scenario. In this post, Scott Lowe continues the availability discussion. Let’s start with a look at how VMware ESX will fit into our architecture. The next scenario expands on the scenario shown in the previous discussion. I look very forward to your comments and suggestions.
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Computer Technology: iSCSI is the future of storage
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009. ISCSI is the future of storage. ISCSI is here to stay and will eventually supplant a significant portion of the installed base of Fibre Channel SANs out there. Further, as organizations make their initial forays into block-level shared storage, iSCSI will beat Fibre Channel more often than not. I’m a big fan of both EqualLogic and LeftHand Networks offerings, having purchased an EqualLogic unit in a former life. At that time, I narrowed my selection down to two options...Is not ...
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Computer Technology: Working With Terminal Services Remote Applications (Part 2)
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Saturday, April 25, 2009. Working With Terminal Services Remote Applications (Part 2). In the first part of this article series, I talked about some of the benefits associated with using Terminal Services RemoteApp. In this article, I want to continue my discussion by guiding you through the deployment process. Installing the Terminal Services. Go ahead and click Next, and you will see a warning message that tells you that any applications that were installed prior to the installation of the terminal ser...
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Computer Technology: April 2009
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Saturday, April 25, 2009. Working With Terminal Services Remote Applications (Part 3). Now that I have demonstrated the Terminal Service RemoteApp feature, I want to work through the RemoteApp Wizard one more time, and take more time to explain things as I go. You can launch the RemoteApp Wizard by opening the TS RemoteApp Manager, and clicking on the Add RemoteApp Programs link found in the Actions pane. Figure A: Select the applications that you want to host remotely. If you look at the figure above, y...
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Computer Technology: Working With Terminal Services Remote Applications (Part 3)
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Saturday, April 25, 2009. Working With Terminal Services Remote Applications (Part 3). Now that I have demonstrated the Terminal Service RemoteApp feature, I want to work through the RemoteApp Wizard one more time, and take more time to explain things as I go. You can launch the RemoteApp Wizard by opening the TS RemoteApp Manager, and clicking on the Add RemoteApp Programs link found in the Actions pane. Figure A: Select the applications that you want to host remotely. If you look at the figure above, y...
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Computer Technology: Protecting Microsoft Exchange in Physical & Virtual Environments
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Thursday, December 25, 2008. Protecting Microsoft Exchange in Physical and Virtual Environments. For many companies, email has become a more important communication tool than the telephone. Internal employee communication, vendor and partner communication, email integration with business applications, collaboration using shared documents and schedules, and the ability to capture and archive key business interactions all contribute to the increasing reliance on email. Evaluate Unplanned Downtime Causes.
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Computer Knowledge: A Closer Look at Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007 (Part 1)
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A Closer Look at Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007 (Part 1). Before you dive in and start installing Exchange 2007, you should take the time to understand the steps required to prepare your Active Directory environment to receive Exchange 2007. In this four-part article I will be taking a more in-depth look at what these preparatory steps are and, perhaps more importantly, what tools and processes you can use to determine whether they have completed successfully or not. Or Rodney Buike’s.
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Computer Knowledge: Five things your manager could be doing better
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Five things your manager could be doing better. I don’t know your manager personally. He or she may be perfectly wonderful. And I’m not indicting all managers as being somehow deficient in their jobs. But chances are, all managers could use some strengthening in certain areas. Here are some ways most managers could improve:. If not, what’s the message to the rest of the team? Many people don’t look at things from a “no news is good news” standpoint. You’d be surprised at how m...Good managers notice good...
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Computer Knowledge: Five reasons to kill IT projects
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Five reasons to kill IT projects. A survey of IT experts revealed 43 percent of their organizations had recently killed an IT project. The study, conducted by ISACA. An independent IT governance group, highlighted the top 5 reasons these organizations named for terminating projects prior to completion. Here’s the list, with my commentary on each issue:. 1 Business needs changed: 30%. 2 Did not deliver as promised: 23%. Presumably to address this issue:. Many organizations take a CIO for granted when his ...
