Over Christmas we had to do a bunch of VMWare to Hyper-V conversions at work. Once you've sufficiently prepared the VM, there are a whole bunch of ways you can do this, ranging from raw converting the vmdk, to mounting the vmdk and a blank vhd and then copying the contents between. We chose it as…
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If you're even slightly geeky you will have seen any of several articles in the last 2 years that state "the URL is dead". With the inclusion of the search box in many browsers this is starting to become true, and is starting to present some interesting support challenges.
The last 6 months I've seen 3 companies that I've used both professionally and personally for various services using CC to mass email their clients. This is not acceptable. As result one of my personal accounts is on various lists and receives a marked increase in junk mail.
If you've got a Windows Server 2008 R2 box, running Nehalem based hardware you might find it handy to bookmark KB975530, which details a hotfix and workaround for CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT STOP errors you might receive with this configuration.
If you've got an application that sends messages via your Exchange 2010 server, using SMTP, you might've noticed that things have slowed down a bit. The reason for this is because the Exchange 2010 receive connectors have a "MaxAcknowledgementDelay" setting, that will inform you if the delivery is successful, within a certain time frame. If the …