Monthly Archives: March 2010

AVG Rescue CD now Freeware

Posted on March 31, 2010 by admin

You can get both the CD boot and the USB boot images from here.

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Encrypting Executables

Posted on March 25, 2010 by admin

I came across this great freeware utility for encrypting executable files.  It requires absolutely no installation, just run it, pick the executable file, select a password and there you go.   Perfect.  It is still in beta, but I’ve had no problems … Continue reading →

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P2V MS Windows Cluster Running Exchange 2003 and uninstalling the cluster service on W2K3.

Posted on March 24, 2010 by admin

Great write-up here on the process of migrating over clustered Exchange servers into the virtual arena.    Also, whilst on the subject of clustered servers I found this Microsoft KB article outlining the process of uninstalling the cluster service on a Windows … Continue reading →

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VMware Site Recovery Manager – A complete HowTO with Celerra VSA

Posted on March 9, 2010 by admin

Over at Virtual Geek, there is a blog post on an EMC document on how to get VMware Site Recovery Manager working with nothing more than a couple of ESX servers.  See here for more information.

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VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance and vNetwork Distributed Switches

Posted on March 9, 2010 by admin

Here is a great little write up from HyperVizor on a very much under-used (IMHO) feature of vSphere, name FT (Fault Tolerance), there are some limitations but as mentioned in the write up there are many scenarios where this should be … Continue reading →

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