Apparently you can’t backup exchange 2003 and the system state on the same backup set. This is a change to how e2k worked and seems a bit weird although there is a technet article explaining that the 820852 – Backup of the Exchange Server 2003 Information Store and the Windows Server 2003 System State Data Does Not Complete Successfully and Event ID 8019 Is Logged. I guess you could set two jobs to run with the second job appending to the end of the tape. My nly concern is that if its not done as part of the normal backup then its unlikely to get done at all – just how many people update their rdisks – and I mean the floppy version – of their NT4 servers.
I’m really struggling to do an inplace upgrade of nt4 to windows2000 (and there *are* good reasons for doing an inplace upgrade as opposed to a clean install) and one of the suggestions to get around a bsod when it boots is to disable the cache on the motherboard. When I did that and booted into nt4, just clicking start and then run took 12 seconds to fire up the run dialog box. As you can imagine the rest of the process is painfully slow which means its going to take even longer to do the upgrade. The difference in speed when you have no cache on the processor is pretty amazing (although I guess I could have cheated by interrupting the reboot process of the upgrade to disable the cache at this point in time instead of at the beginning of the upgrade)
Scoble has an interesting and amusing article about all those people who hate Microsoft. Apparently Microsoft want people to blog and talk in newsgroups about their hated things in Longhorn so that Microsoft get a chance to address the issues before the software ships.
Seybold has a great slideshow introduction to RSS formats which explains in simple terms the makeup of the different formats of RSS feeds and what is required/optional in each format. Wish I’d seen it before doing my Comic feeds (and I can now confidently state they are in 0.91 format)
We’ve booked two nights at Ohio’s Getaway Cabins, Log Cabin Rentals in Hocking Hills which looks really neat. I also did a google search to see if anyone had stayed at these cabins and what their impressions were. Micah and Susan had stayed at one of the cabins and looking through their photos it looks like there is loads to do and theres always the hottub if required! Their photos are really good too so I’m looking forward to getting some good pictures when we go.
Clear Blue Skies is organising a flash blog – where everyone descends on a blog and posts comments on it in a particular theme. Just hope that this doesn’t get any bloggers kicked off their server for excessive cpu usage or as a denial of service attack.
Useful source for downloading individual files from the NT4 Resource kit
Yesterday I started on an inhouse, inplace upgrade of a nt4sp6 machine to Windows 2000. Fortunately I took a backup with PowerQuest DriveImage of the machine before I started. Ghost is normally our imager of choice but the version of Ghost we have would not see the SCSI disks yet DI would.
Kelly posted some Fall pictures yet in the uk we’ve skipped autumn and gone straight to winter as seen by Reflective Reality’s post and my comments. I am hoping to get some nice falling leave shots this weekend (as long as there are some leaves left to fall by then)