The Edge of Beyond

Exchange 2010 Storage Calculator available! [update]

The updated version of the Exchange Storage Calculator has just been released! (3.2) http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/01/22/453859.aspx With the Worldwide Release of Exchange 2010 yesterday, this provides a crucial planning step towards migration!

Bringing up a PKI Infrastructure (initial)

I'm going to walk myself through setting up a PKI infrastructure, including distribution of the Root CA to Firefox. For this Lab, I have the following Hyper-V machines: hs-ca-dc1: Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Standard (Domain Controller; Management Station)

GroupWise to Exchange 2007

What a while! After a brief Sabbatical, our team rushed straight into AD deployment phase. The initial deployment phase consists of migration of servers, followed by user migration including e-mail. And here lies the Crux! With Exchange 2007 (E12) on

Authoritative DS restores

In the fine print of the ArcServe documentation, the lack of support for Windows 2003 R2 was noted. It was more evidently noted in the release notes of Service Pack 1. I recently attempted a Authoritative DC restore, after (stupidly) trashing "The"

Oh, the un-amity!

Every once in a while, Karmic law takes its course and one can reap a little justice. Today is one of those days :) I have a problem with Hardware Vendors who present their solutions as the best ever, when it's been available elsewhere (and better)

…and the ‘other’ 32-bits?

With the hype around 64-bit technology, one might be tempted think that all the 32-bit problems are automagically solved. Welcome to 1995 :) As an analogue to the 16- to 32-bit transition in '95, driver complications are the bane of any platform change.

Life in Vista-land (32-bit)

It's no news that Vista Beta 2 has gone public last week. I got hold of a copy of Build 5384 on Friday and have been playing with it incessantly. After installing the OS, I realised that I had made the cardinal mistake of not ensuring all drivers were

Comparing 64-bit AMD architectures

I've recently had the opportunity to test a Sun Ultra 20 Workstation. With 2GB of ECC SDRAM, 250GB SATA and an Opteron 152 (clocks at 2.6GHz), the loan machine is quite a workstation, even by today's standards. For reasons of comparison, my home machine

Critical Hole in IE

Secunia is reporting a critical exploit in IE 6 and IE7b2 regarding the createTextRange() function. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1941507,00.asp http://secunia.com/advisories/18680/ This affects a fully patched XPSP2 system as well. Regards, Strau

Vista .NET applications/services (and a mini-review of the X-Fi)

This article trends the number of .net applications and services in the last few builds of Vista. It suggests that the number of managed applications is decreasing in each build. This was to be expected, as managed code is frequently touted as being slower

Firefox Alpha to feature this week

It looks like the new Firefox Alpha 2.0 will be released this week. Story on Digg Mozilla Wiki Any work on the Memory Management Issues inherent to the Gecko Rendering Engine will seemingly only be addressed in Firefox 3.0. This will allow for a market

…to the land of the extant!

Well today marked the beginning of my first migration from NDS to Active Directory. The day consisted mostly of getting the base deployment ready and the migration testing will continue through the rest of the week. In addition, I had hands-on experience