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A personal blog of an IT techie - This is a convenient place for me to jot things down before I forget.

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July 2008 - Posts

Poor performance with D-Link DCS-6620G and Microsoft Windows Vista - Solved
I recently bought a D-Link DCS-6620G IP camera to replace a failed Panasonic one. I found the performance to be terrible. After running a network capture I discovered the following: My Vista desktop would send two TCP SYN requests with ECN and CWR flags Read More...
Microsoft DPM 2007 - Enable colocation of data on tape
If you have multiple storage groups with the same data retention policies, you can now colocate the data on the same tapes as long as you have installed the DPM 2007 feature pack . Most useful if you have a single drive rather than a library. It's not Read More...
Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
This ( KB949870 ), was applied by Windows Update last night, and I woke up to no incoming email. On investigation, I found that there was no smtp (25) port open, and that the Microsoft Exchange Transport hadn't started after the reboot. I attempted to Read More...
DPM 2007 Feature Pack - Out!
The feature pack that is supposed to fix quite a few issues was released on the 1st July. I seemed to have missed it even though my DPM server is subscribed to Windows Update. Found out about it here: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2008/07/01/dpm-2007-rollup-update-now-available.aspx Read More...
Configure Server 2008 Time
I used the command: "w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"uk.pool.ntp.org europe.pool.ntp.org" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update" More details here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/f3d6b66c-5fdc-4a77-a901-5efbcb4d4bb71033.mspx?mfr=tru Read More...