How to determine the version of Solaris you are running. uname -a This will list the Solaris version on your server. uname -X will display the extended information with more detailed info. Other options for uname. Operating system name (uname…
Month: May 2009
How to find a file in Unix, Linux, Aix, Solaris.
If you are not sure about the name of the file and which directory it stored in then you can use the find command to search for it. The Find command is common to all variants of Unix, Aix, Solaris,…
Formula for calculating the swap partition size during the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
When performing the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora, you can accept the default size of the swap partition or enter the optimal size manually. Here is the formula to calculate the swap partition size. If total memory…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is there such a thing
What is search engine optimization – SEO? If you own a website you may have received many spam emails from people offering SEO services. They even go as far as guranteeing instant results, that they can improve your website’s page…
Funny comic strip
A friend emailed me this hillarious comic strip. Phase 1: You are listening to jazz — Your first day at work is great. Your coworkers are wonderful, your cubicle is cute, and your boss is the best! Phase 2: You…
Configurng the email address generator through Recipent Policies in Exchange Server 2003.
The Recipent Policies in the Exchange 2003 Server generates the email address of the users you create in Active Directory Users and Computers. For example users_name@domain_name.com. When configuring a new Exchange server it is recommended that a new Recipient Policy…
Auditing Exchange Mailbox size, logon and logoff.
The Exchange Systems Manager can be used to quickly determine basic auditing information for all mailboxes configured on the server. Open Exchange System Manager Go to Administrative Groups – First Administrative Group – Servers – Server_Name – First Storage Group…
How to manually start the Microsoft Exchange Recipient Update Services.
As a systems or network administrator I’m sure there have been times when you have run into similar situation. You just created a new Exchange 2003 mailbox. But when you try to configure the Outlook client’s profile for the user…
How to enable secondary protection for resources on the primary DPM 2007 server.
Open DPM 2007 Administrator Console Go the Management Window – Agents tab. Select the Primary DPM server. Under the Details windows you will see the option Proteced computers enabled for Protection – Modify. Click on Modify. In the View Details…
How to add a new disk to the DPM storage pool.
Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) can backup to both disk or tape. The advantage of backing up to disk is the high speed. What may take many hours to backup to tape will take a fraction of that time…