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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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Yesterday, I was called upon to help resolve a problem with an Exchange server at another department. The Exchange server had to be rebuilt on a new machine because the server room had flooded and destroyed the old one. Luckily, they’d been backing up the old server and now had restored it to [...]

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Found over at msexchange.com, an article outlining a fix for damaged or lost OWA directories.  After a quick reading, it seems quite simple to do and I wish I’d known about this when I started working with OWA two years ago, it would have saved me tons of time after I’d switched some entries for [...]

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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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A cute (yes, I said cute) and elementary exposition of a Windows restoration using the Knoppix LiveCD.

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