sbuchanan One day I was working on a new Drupal site for client. This was on a new server and I had no clue where anything was. I needed to find out what PHP version was running. I could not find this in Plesk for some reason. On Geeklog they had an article with a cool way to track down your PHP version and other information about PHP on a server.
At a client’s site they had Small Business Server 2008. For some reason Exchange 2007 was no longer working after they ran some windows updates on SBS 2008 and did a reboot. The information store service would no longer start. I checked event logs and saw this “Source: MSExchange ADAccess Event ID: 2114“. After doing some research I … Read more
Check out this free SharePoint event in Minnesota. Twin Cities SharePoint Saturday IV on March 20, 2010 The 4th Biannual Twin Cities SharePoint Saturday! (Formerly known as the Twin Cities SharePoint Camp.) Spend a day with other SharePoint Administrators, Developers and End Users and come away with tips, tricks and a richer understanding of how … Read more
I have run into the issue of not being able to find the Scanpst.exe file where it should be. I even had show hidden files olders and show system files turned on. I did a search and still could not find it. This file typically would be in one of two locations:
We recently had a client that required Google Chrome for a web based app. Google Chrome is easy to download and install. Pretty straight forward and easy enough right? Wrong. Google Chrome installs in
by default. You would think Google would install it to Program Files by default like other applications but it does not.
I will be attending two FREE webinars one on SharePoint 2010 and one on the basics of CRM. They are both on the same day February 11th. Back to the Basics of CRM (Salesforce.com and Microsoft CRM) – 1:15 – 2:30 pm EST SharePoint 2010: World Premiere – 3:30 – 5:00 pm EST Sign up … Read more
I needed to backup a couple of MySQL databaes automatically. Here is what I did to accomplish this. I created a folder called mysqlbackup. I then created a script called “mysqldbbackup.sh” and put this script file in the mysqlbackup folder. It contains “rm /mysqlbackup/DBNAME_backup.sql mysqldump -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD DBNAME > /mysqlbackup/DBNAME_backup.sql” I used the “rm” command to … Read more
Do you need to track equipment, software, and IP addresses in your IT department? These are a given. The issue is many IT budgets have been cut. Well I have had the same issue. There is a solution. If you have SharePoint 2007 you can use it to manage and track all of these things. … Read more
I was working on a 2003 server and needed to give remote access to users that are not administrators on the server. This was not a terminal server. I added them to the Remote Desktop Users group but they could not logon. When trying to log on as one of the users It gave a message saying the … Read more
So you have your 2008 servers systemstate backed up by DPM 2007. Your server crashes and you need to recover. DPM 2007 does not give an option to recover to the server only to tape or a network share.
What do you from here? The answer is you have to actually restore the system state using Microsoft’s built in windows backup utility. There is another catch it has to be done via command line using WBADMIN. Here are the steps to recover a server using Windows 2008 Backup from the command line: