Nov 02

I had to update some workstation of a customer to SP 3 (if it ain’t broke don’t try to fix it :) ) so he was able to upgrade his Internet Explorer to version 8 (IE version 9 is not possible with windows XP).But when the installation starts it stops with the error message:

 Service Pack 3 has been cancelled because XP SP3 cannot be installed over RDP 6.0 MUI pack (update for Windows XP(KB925877)). Before you can continue, you must  Uninstall KB925877.

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Oct 30

This blog is part two of three of how you can make a back-up and more importantly of how you can recover items from a mailbox. In part one I described which setting to set for a exchange 2010 back-up job.  In this part I will explain how to configure the virtual lab and application group  that are necessary for restoring exchange items from a specific mailbox. I will also show how to make a surebackup verification job. The virtual lab and application group are part of the surebackup option of Veeam.

SureBackup is technology in Veeam Backup & Replication which can  be used to have a automate and simplify backup verification process. Within surebackup the virtual machine  runs directly form the back-up in a isolated environment and I will test if all the depended services are up and running. For exchange it will test if all ports are are up and running like port 25 for example. Within the surebackup section of the software you can make a job to test the back-up automatically. In the picture below you see the the SureBackup section and below this there is a member called Jobs here is where you will make the testing job.

Veeam Backup and replication sections

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Oct 24

andriod loves appleI am a person that has two phones one for business and one for private. Why? I just want to keep private and working live separated. But this is not always possible. So I got two cell phones one IPhone :) and one android. And I must say the android is fine but there is a difference. So i like the IPhone more than the android and i don’t want to walk around with two phones all the time so I forwarded the calls that are made to the android phone to the IPhone but I was still missing the SMS that where send! Yeah the old school thing before whatsapp  ;)   so I was looking for a app that will forward my SMS including the sender data (name and phone number). There are several free apps that will do this for you but without the senders data and that’s not handy. So I found a paid app for android that works great! And yes it is a paid app! So what did the android community brought us more than the Iphone community? I don’t know! If you want a good app you must paid for it (There are always exceptions). The app is called SMS Forwarder Pro and can be found in the market place for €1,15 ! I think this is the best app ever for an android ;)  

So in the end I think all android phone users dream of apple because why else would this app exist ;)  

Andriods dreams of apple

Oct 14

This blog is going to be be part one of three of how you can make a back-up and more importantly of how you can recover items from a mailbox. Part one will describe how to configure the backup job. Part two will describe how to configure the virtal lab that is necessary for restoring exchange items from a specific mailbox. Part two wil describe how to configure the recover item(s) from a mailbox. In this series I made the assumption that you have Veeam Back-up and replication (enterprise) installed if not you will manage!

The scheme below gives an overview of my Exchange environment

Exchange enviorment 2010

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Oct 06

When using Business view the typical thing you want to do is categorize you virtual machines by user groups. This is usually done by the Import /Export function under Configuration but it also can be done by grouping expressions. First the Wizard way

Veeam Business View Configuration overview 

Veeam Business View Configuration overview 2

  Veeam Business View Configuration overview

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Sep 22

 In this weak economic time most of us will have their cash flow closely monitor and will attempt to not have  any  part of the month left at the end of their money! We all know that there must be a balance between income and expenditure Actually there must be more income  than there is expenditure. But who is keeping track of the US spending? I m glad I am not responsible for the household spending of the US despite the nice website with overview. Click on the picture to see the current status.

US spending Clock

Sep 19

I thought this was a very known issue but assumptions are the mother of all …. So here some (old news). When deploying a virtual machine from a template within vCenter while using customization specification and within the customization specification it indicates that the system should be placed in a particular domain. Sysprep will try but is not able to do this.

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Sep 16

When installing Veeam business view server with a existing database server i got a error when the installation is trying to configure the SQL Database.

SQL database install error 27552 

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Sep 14

When you get a Ping error in your sure back-up Job like below. Static IP settings that were configured on the source server where not retained on the resulting virtual machine in sure backup!

real time statists Veeam sure backup 
This is a screen shot form the real-time statists in sure backup. You can see this screen when you right click the sure backup job.

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Sep 12

After the installation of Veeam business server I  login in and expected  a popup  to configure the business view program.

Popup configuration wizard veeam business view

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