Buck Woody The ASs of Distributed Computing What's The 'Cloud'? nothing more than one or more of three different types of distributed service, conceptually similar to any... 27 February 2012 16 min read
Wesley David How to Kill a Company in One Step or Save it in Three The majority of companies that suffer a major data loss subsequently go out of business. Wesley David remembers vividly the... 07 February 2012 14 min read
Johan Veldhuis Migrating from OCS 2007 R2 to Lync: Part 4 Having migrated the rest of our users and legacy resources across and started getting ready to decommission OCS 2007 R2,... 06 February 2012 14 min read
Matt Simmons Physical Network Layout for the Reluctant How do you select the hardware for your network, and connect it all together? How do you then test your... 13 December 2011 50 min read
Antoine Khater Extending Exchange 2010 Shadow Redundancy Cross Forest When a customer asks for an Exchange Server feature that you have no idea how to implement, and you just... 01 December 2011 8 min read
Matt Simmons Logical Network Layout for Small Networks Matt examines what it's like to design a network from the ground up, as well as dealing with an existing... 28 November 2011 30 min read
Matt Simmons Networking – The Crib Sheet When anyone mentions network masks and the 'seven layer model' we all nod wisely and hope not to be asked... 15 November 2011 14 min read
Jaap Wesselius Recover a Mailbox Server in A Database Availability Group (DAG) When one mailbox server in a Database Availability Group (DAG) is accidentally deleted, then it is supposedly easy to fix... 10 October 2011 4 min read
PowerShell Sean Duffy in PowerShell Disk Space Monitoring and Early Warning with PowerShell Sean Duffy recently had an unwelcome encounter with Exchange Server Back Pressure, which cut off his message flow due to... 15 August 2011 11 min read
General Wesley David in General High Availability or High Recoverability? Having pierced the veil of confusion surrounding High Availability, Wesley David finds himself asked (and being asked) whether HA is... 01 August 2011 20 min read
Brien Posey Network Administrators Past, Present, and Future Even in the short time that PCs have been signficantly networked, what it means to be a SysAdmin has changed... 11 July 2011 10 min read
David Njoku Readying your Oracle Database for Your First Apex Application APEX can be a great way to create an application rapidly on an Oracle Database. Although it is generally straightforward,... 14 June 2011 9 min read
Johan Veldhuis Migrating from OCS 2007 R2 to Lync: Part 2 In the story so far, Johan has described how to check that the migration from your OCS to Lync is... 07 June 2011 13 min read
Peter Raganitsch Multi-Language database applications using Oracle Apex It isn't straightforward to design a database application that has to provide text data in several languages. There are several... 03 June 2011 12 min read
Wesley David Be the Puppet Master! Control Multiple PCs with one Keyboard and Mouse In the average IT department, geek-credibility is bound up with the number of monitors you are simultaneously using. What about... 20 May 2011 10 min read
Jaap Wesselius Office365 and Lync Online Having gotten us up and running with the basics of Office365, Jaap Wesselius now dives deeper, walking us through the... 10 May 2011 11 min read
Sean Duffy VMware Lab setup – A virtualized lab for testing HA and DRS VMWare VSphere is a virtualisation technology that is best learned by setting up, on a single PC, a VSphere cluster... 12 April 2011 24 min read
Johan Veldhuis A look at Microsoft Lync 2010 Lync manages office communications such as voice calls, video calls, instant messages, meetings, and shared whiteboard sessions all from a... 22 March 2011 12 min read
Wesley David Game-over! Gaining Physical access to a computer Security requires defense in depth. The cleverest intrusion detection system, combined with the best antivirus, won't help you if a... 15 March 2011 11 min read
Jonathan Medd An Introduction to PowerShell Modules For PowerShell to provide specialised scripting, especially for administering server technologies, it can have the range of Cmdlets available to... 11 March 2011 15 min read
