It’s often necessary to check the health of your Windows Domain and Domain Controllers. You need to know if your domain is healthy before and after routine maintenance – Patching and the like – and when you are trying to diagnose problems. I’ve had to do this more times than i care to remember, and … Read more
Windows Domain Health Checks
January 3rd, 2012 | Posted by in administration | Operating Systems | Server Core | Windows - (Comments Off)Configuring email alerts for Windows Server Backups
December 13th, 2011 | Posted by in administration | Backup | Microsoft | Monitoring | Server Core | Windows - (Comments Off)Windows Server backup is a credible backup solution for small environments when backup space is plentiful and an integrated centrally managed solution is not required or not affordable. However one thing that is missing from WSB is any sort of alerting to let you know when your backups have completed or failed. Without this it’s … Read more
Binary Royale offers tailored IT Consultancy to small/medium sized businesses in the East Midlands.
September 14th, 2011 | Posted by in Hosted Services | IT Consultancy - (Comments Off)Binary Royale offers services to its clients which include IT Consultancy Skills in HA, DR and Fault tolerance – implement these technologies into your systems Monitoring – SNMP monitoring of your systems – txt and email alerts Desktop and Server Hosting Hosted Exchange Services AV and AS Scanning for email Reliable Website Hosting – 15 … Read more
CronLab Anti Virus and Anti Spam services added to Binary Royale’s mail services offerings
June 16th, 2011 | Posted by in Hosted Services - (Comments Off)Binary Royale offers mail services to its clients which include hosted MS Exchange 2010 services IMAP/POP Outlook Anywhere iPhone / activeSync conenctivity or plain simple webmail To add to this offering, we have now integrated Anti Virus and Anti Spamming Scanning Services into our inbound and outbound flow of mail See http://cronlab.com/ for details This … Read more
Adding Windows Backup Component – Windows Server Core
June 9th, 2011 | Posted by in Server Core - (Comments Off)In order to backup your Windows Server Core you will need to install Windows Backup via a command line. To Install Windows Backup use the following command: CODE ocsetup WindowsServerBackup This command IS case sensitive. Once run, you will be able to connect remotely via Windows Server Backup to setup your backup schedule.
iphone connection problems for some users with Exchange 2010
May 23rd, 2011 | Posted by in MS Exchange 2010 - (Comments Off)Hi All I had an issue this week where I had installed Exchange 2010, standard setup, onto a server and I was having issues with iphone connectivity. The thing that really saved me was the use of https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ I don’t own an iPhone myself and using the above online tool helped me to test the … Read more
This post relates to Windows Server 2008 R2 and Outlook 2010 My setup is that I have a terminal server running Office 2010, hence why it’s installed on a Windows Server. During use of Outlook a “Windows Search” is not installed message was showing in the bottom pane, within the client. This is how to … Read more
Certificate Errors when opening Outlook 2010 – Exchange 2010
May 10th, 2011 | Posted by in MS Exchange 2010 - (1 Comments)This applies to those who have installed a standard SSL external certificate onto their Exchange server Hi All As you’re all probably aware, Exchange 2010 likes to have a certificate installed, under the “Server Configuration” node, to apply to SMTP, IIS, POP, UM, IMAP etc Out of the box, you can create a self signed … Read more
Opening the Control Panel via Command Line / Run – Win 2008
May 5th, 2011 | Posted by in Windows - (Comments Off)Hi All I have a Windows Server which is tied down, so that the control panel is not visible. I therefore needed to work out how to open it up, via a command. It was dead simple, after doing some digging around. CODE Goto start and then run – alternatively hit “Windows Key” + R … Read more
Hi All Today I also had to setup mysql on Ubuntu and allow for remote connections to it. There are a few things that need to be done, to get this working, after you have installed mysql-server 1. Edit my.cnf to bind to the servers REAL IP address sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf edit the line which … Read more