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System Administrator role in Lab Manager

Today one of the Administrator users of VMware Lab Manager was attempting to import templates she had created.  Unfortunately she ran into a snag.  She was lacking the security privileges need to complete the tasks she was attempting. The level of administration required was that of a system administrator role. Info:  The Systems Administrator Role can only […]

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Exchange Database Size and Limits

In the dream time hours of the night one of the exchange data-stores went offline.  The steps to resolve the issue were put in place and handled swiftly by the administrator on duty; but what was the cause. After some digging I arrive at the reason why the data-store went offline.  Found in the Windows Application event ID 9630 […]

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Windows Server 8 Beta now available

In addition to the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, and the betas of Visual Studio 11 and the .NET 4.5 framework, Microsoft on Wednesday also released the beta of Windows Server 8. Best of all, the minimum system requirements are: a 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor, 512MB of RAM, and 32 GB of storage. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/v8-default.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx?ocid=&wt.mc_id=TEC_108_1_33   […]

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview keyboard shortcuts

Are you looking for some keyboard shortcuts to save you some time?  Look no more my friend. Win + C = Opens the Charms Bar Win + D = Show the desktop Win + E = Opens Windows Explorer Win + F = Opens the Search feature Win + H = Opens the Share Charm […]

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Microsoft releases Windows 8 Consumer Preview

The long anticipated Consumer Preview (beta) build of Windows 8 has finally been released by Microsoft.  So far I am enjoying this new OS.  It’s quick fun and best of all “new”. According to Microsoft, the next milestone will be the Release Candidate and after that will be the Release to Manufacturing (RTM), and general […]

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Personal

Invite your friends to Dropbox!

Hi all, I just wanted to ask you to please help me increase my free online storage space.  For every friend who joins and installs Dropbox, I’ll get  we both get 250 MB of bonus space (up to a limit of 8 GB)!  If you don’t have an account, now is a good time to […]