by ds | Jul 1, 2014 | Administration
It might happen that users in your network unintentionally delete single mails, subfolders, contacts etc. which are not restorable. In many cases, solutions like Windows Server Backup and several 3rd party Exchange Backup software do not give the best possibilities...
by ds | May 30, 2014 | Administration
Scenario A Kyocera printer should be deployed via GPO->Printers and is therefore installed in the Windows Server Print Management. You try to use the recommended Kyocera KX drivers first, but they don’t work as they should when the printer is deployed to the...
by ds | May 28, 2014 | Software
Using multiple Mediacenter stations running OpenElec / XBMC, there are only one or two files you need to copy from another machine or a central store manually to set substitution and database paths. If you do not want to copy everything manually after every little...
by ds | May 24, 2014 | Administration, Virtualization
Problem / Scenario Backup Software like Acronis Backup & Recovery causes your Hyper-V Virtual Machines to freeze. Guest OS is Ubuntu. Sometimes this also happens when you restart your Hyper-V host or make a snapshot of your VM. The VM itself displays error...
by ds | May 23, 2014 | PHP
Scenario After upgrading from PHP 5.3 to 5.5, Smarty returns empty strings when using e.g. “html_options” etc., if the “values” or “output” array contains special characters like German Umlaute (ä, ü, …). Reason From PHP 5.4...
by ds | May 21, 2014 | Administration
Scenario For important data in your local network, you should use professional backup products like from Acronis etc. But there might be some stations in your network which are not worth to buy a separate backup license for them – like e.g. the OS drive of your...
by ds | May 20, 2014 | Administration
Ubuntu 12.10 distros and above do not support the smbmount command any more to connect to Windows network shares. Instead, use the “mount” command (run “apt-get cifs-utils” first): Old: smbmount //some/remote/dir /mnt/remotedir -o...
by ds | May 20, 2014 | Administration
For monitoring the health state of common Windows Software RAIDs, I use a script from this site. Windows Server 2012 / R2 and Windows 8 / 8.1 now offer the usage of Storage Spaces, which are more flexible than the other Windows RAID types. So I modified the script a...
by ds | May 13, 2014 | Administration
With the last Ubuntu releases, the included Apache and WordPress upgrades caused me to do more and more workarounds to get everything up working after doing the upgrade. Scenario Initially starting a few years ago with Ubuntu 11.x, I installed Apache, PHP, MySQL,...
by ds | May 10, 2014 | Administration
DBTCP is a Linux Client / Windows Server solution to access ODBC connections. Unfortunately, there has been no update since 2004, but with some modifications, v0.1.18a is working with current Ubuntu / Apache / PHP versions. Download and extract the latest version....
