restore a lenovo R61e to factory settings

restore a lenovo R61e to factory settings

assuming recovery partition not damaged

press thinkvantage key, start the rescue and recovery console

click related options ...

it took about 60 minutes to see the normal xp screen

How to increase the Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 18-gigabyte database size limit

How to increase the Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 18-gigabyte database size limit

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912375
http://www.petri.co.il/setting_mailbox_limits_over_2gb.htm

• For a mailbox store, click the following registry subkey:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\Server name\Private-Mailbox Store GUID
• For a public folder store, click the following registry subkey:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\Server name\Public-Public Store GUID

On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.

In the New Value #1 box, type Database Size Limit in Gb, and then press ENTER.

Right-click Database Size Limit in Gb, and then click Modify.

Click Decimal, and then type an integer from 1 to 75 in the Value data box.

Note These integer values represent the maximum size of the database in gigabytes (GB). For example, a value of 75 represents a database that has a maximum size of 75 GB.

Click OK, and then exit Registry Editor.

Restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
2. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
   net stop msexchangeis
3. After the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service has stopped successfully, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
   net start msexchangeis

You can download ADmodify .NET to customize the user ;imit larger than 2GB

You receive an error message when you try to set the storage limits to 2 GB or larger for a mailbox or for a mailbox store in Exchange 2003 or in Exchange 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930366
You receive an error message when you try to set the storage limits to 2 GB or larger for a mailbox or for a mailbox store in Exchange 2003 or in Exchange 2000

ADUC can only do 2GB

you use  adsiedit.msc or admodify to change to higher limit

or tick off limits, and let it grow ...

Configuring and Managing the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Library

Configuring and Managing the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Library
1. What is the VMM library, and what kind of resources can you index in it?
Answer: The VMM library is a catalog that gives access to file-based resources (such as Sysprep scripts, ISO images, and virtual hard disks) that are stored on your library servers and to virtual machine templates, as well as to guest operating system and hardware profiles that reside in the VMM database
2. Why do you create hardware profiles?
Answer: You use hardware profiles to have a consistent hardware configuration when creating new virtual machines and to speed up a virtual machine's deployment process
3. What is the guest operating system profile? What kind of information does it contain?
Answer: A guest operating system profile is a collection of operating system settings that you can import into a virtual machine template to provide a consistent operating system configuration for virtual machines created from that template. It contains key information, such as computer name, administrator password, product key, and other data.
4. How should you add a clustered file server as a library server to VMM?
Answer: To add a clustered file server as a library server, you have to use the Client Access Point name that you defined during the cluster's creation.


quotes from MS e-learning

Course 10215A: Implementing and Managing Microsoft® Server Virtualization

Course 10215A: Implementing and Managing Microsoft® Server Virtualization

Creating and Deploying Virtual Machines Using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

Review questions

1. In which scenarios is it beneficial to deploy using the virtual machine template?

Answer: If you want to deploy multiple virtual machines with the same settings, but with different identities, you can you deploy using the virtual machine template.

2. In which scenarios should you not perform P2V conversion?

Answer: You should not perform P2V if you have operating systems that do not support P2V conversion. Also, highly utilized databases, and application and mail servers, typically are not good virtualization candidates.

3. Which methods can you use to perform a V2V conversion?

Answer: You can make a conversion directly from the ESX host. You can also perform a conversion from the library and from the file share location.

4. What is the main difference between Live Migration and Quick Storage Migration?

Answer: In Quick Storage Migration, the virtual machine changes the storage location but not necessarily the host on which it was running.

5. How do you clone a virtual machine?

Answer: You can clone a virtual machine from the SCVMM Admin Console. However, you must stop the machine. Additionally, the cloned machine should not run at the same time and on the same network as the original machine.

before I goto bed, It occurred to me I need mention TZ 215

before I goto bed, It occurred to me I need mention TZ 215

sonicwall , yeah Dell now, TZ 215 has a GEO IP feature, that can block an entire country IP, which is cool.

but that feature is not present in tz100, tz210, or tz200 even if I updated firmware

SSL aggregated ... install public cert on Exchange 2010 server

SSL aggregated ... install public cert on Exchange 2010 server

eventually a decision is made as to integrated exchange 2010 with autotask

this can't be self signed anymore,

to get a public one, in exchange 2010, in EMC , generate a CSR file,

then choose where to buy from public CA, we use comodo and rapidssl,

for web ssl only about $18.00 for one year.

then goto rapidssl website to purchase the cert,

make sure you get the right one,

I only use one name for exchange ssl, i.e

mail.myboomer.com

so it is the IIS cert I am purchasing

once get the cert in the email, save as CER, and in EMC, complete the cert installation

run cert install test as provided by rapidssl

then assign exchange services using the cert, I cliked on IIS.

the trick is all about SAN or wild card or single name cert you want.