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Purging old data from the database used by VirtualCenter 2.x (a repost)

VirtualCenter stores tasks, event, and performance data in the VirtualCenter database. Over time, data collection results in growth of the database files and a mechanism is needed to shrink these files. VirtualCenter 2.x does not have a feature to purge or shrink old records from the database. For more information on shrinking databases after running the scripts provided in this […]

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How to View Email Headers in Outlook 2010

Open the email you wish to view the headers for. Then click the File menu. Click the Properties button in the menu A new window will open and it will show you the headers   Almost Magical Wasn’t It?

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Personal Technical

“Why is there no /var/log/messages any more?”

Woah!  I just noticed this was missing.  I have used this for many years as my go to location for messages in my Ubuntu Linux environments. With the newest update of Ubuntu this seems to be gone.  {Shocker}   But, there is no need for worrying… The logs I was looking for are in /var/log/syslog. […]

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Software Technical

DIY: Black Holes (in Exchange Server)

Create a distribution group Be sure that there are no members in this distribution list/group. Add the SMTP addresses of the ex-employees or address to the distribution list/group, if account exists.  Add them as secondary SMTP addresses to the distribution list/group address. *note* enter the properties and change the delivery reports; and set it not […]

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Hardware How-To Software Technical

ESXi 4 on USB Thumb Drive

I have no doubts there are many people writing about this; so add me to the list.  I wanted to setup my small ESXi 4 Server to boot from USB media so that I no longer needed to have a local drive in the machine I use as a server. Using VMware Player and a […]

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How-To Software Technical

Tunneling Firefox traffic over SSH

Paranoia, Security or Privacy Issues; All are reasons why I tunnel my web traffic though a SSH Tunnel via a remote machine.  In most cases I do this because I do not trust the network I’m on and don’t want to send unencrypted traffic through it.  In some cases firewalls or local network DNS prevent […]