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In playing around some more with my new server 2008 R2 VM, I discovered new options for managing AD, including the ability to restore data from AD snapshots.
This article in the most excellent magazine, simple-talk.com, provides clear instructions on just exactly how one can use this new capability. Good writing too, by Ben Lye.

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There’s an Haitian proverb I’ve been fond of:
Ignorance doesn’t kill you, but it makes you sweat.
This morning, I upgraded the Symantec NetBackup client on our Exchange server backend (it’s clustered) only to find a new cluster group: PBX-Clustergroup-Servername
Well, WTF?
After a quick bathroom visit, a quick Google search led me to a page that allayed my [...]

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Just got off a conference call cum Webex demo of Goexchange. It sounds like a neat little program. It’s supposed to help keep your Exchange databases in tiptop shape, getting rid of any errors and defragmenting the database for a cleaner, more efficient operation.
The only problem? Well, there are three that occured [...]

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Been away in Seattle, learning about Symantec (formerly Veritas) NetBackup for Windows server. Great class, had fun. The instructor was a know-it-all jagoff who spoke in staccato bursts but, helped along by an excellent manual and a good Powerpoint presentation, was able to get the information across plainly.
It’s not a difficult piece of [...]

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We use Symantec’s (formerly Veritas) NetBackUp (NBU) for backing up our systems. It works well I’m not entirely comfortable with it. Actually, I’m not entirely comfortable with the whole backup thing, really. Incredibly, almost everywhere I’ve worked as a system administrator, there’d been no implementation of a backup plan! I just [...]

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