I really hate ARCserve products. It's not very often that I have to run an Exchange restore, but every time I do I just run into obsticles, cryptic and ambiguous error messages, and a complete lack of solutions on the ARCserve site and Google search results. What makes this worse is restores are normally required quite urgently, and when you're under pressure you don't want to spend hours faffing around getting simple things to work properly.
On this weeks occasion after setting up my restore exactly as specified in this technote on the CA website, my restore kept failing with the following error:
E3022
No valid destination.
Totals For................... Job
Total Session(s)............. 0
Total Databases(s)............ 0
Total Skip(s)................ 0
Total Size (Disk)............ 0 KB
Total Size (DB).............. 0 KB
Total Size (Media)........... 0 KB
Elapsed Time................. 0s
Average Throughput........... 0 KB/min
Total Error(s)/Warning(s).... 1/0
After a lot of wasted time Google searching and trying various configurations, I eventually found the solution to this problem. This is a known issue with ARCserve 11.5 SP2 and the solution is to upgrade to SP3. The upgrade files can be found here.
The Blackberry 8300 "Curve" was released on Monday. It's another full size keyboard jobbie and at first glance seems to be a redesigned Blackberry 8700 with a few extra features added. A short video preview from Stuff magazine is embedded below. RSS Subscribers may need to click on this permalink to see the embedded video.
Last week I was browsing the Internet on my DELL laptop at home, and for no apparent reason I found that I kept getting redirected from the Sky Broadband website to an utterly useless DELL Search page littered with ads. A bit of research into this annoying problem revealed this is not a new issue for DELL users. It's caused by DELL crapware that comes pre-installed on laptops, and people have been complaining about in the DELL user forums and in blogs for over a year already.
I found a few ways to remove it including using HijackThis (which does actually identify this DELL software as spyware) but the easy way is as follows:
- In Internet Explorer go to Tools - Options
- On the Programs tab click on Manage Add-On's
- Select CBrowserHelperObject (published by Dell Inc)
- In 'settings' at the bottom select Disable, and click OK.
Rant What on earth were DELL thinking?! Can't see this is just going to piss people off and turn people away from DELL in the future? It does make me wonder if they'll do the same thing with the PC's they're now loading with Ubuntu ... maybe we'll see the DELL decrapifier for Linux soon?
What makes me the most angry is this is DELL search page is even worse than newdotnet in some ways ... at least with newdotnet you only get redirected when you visit a bad address. The DELL search page actually appears when you try to go to valid links!
Time to to start seriously looking at Exchange 2007. Realistically I won't be in a position to start an install until the end of the year but there is plenty of prep work and reading to do before any kit can be ordered. I did have a brief play with an early beta of E12 but the GUI was only half present and some features were either missing or only available using powershell, which was not well documented at the time.
Good news for Blackberry 8700 owners - the 4.2 OS is finally available to download from Blackberry.com. The download is actually on the Venezuela area of the site, but it is the multilanguage OS so you don't need worry about it all being in Spanish. The only catch is you do have to cope with filling in your name and contact details in on a Spanish registration form.
Here's the link. To install you will have to rename (or delete) vendor.xml in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research in Motion\AppLoader before it will recognise the OS upgrade in Application Loader.
Benefits of upgrading are better themes, more useful standby screen, media manager, media player, Blackberry Maps, and more ...
I upgraded mine yesterday and lost the ability to reply to e-mails, the Send option was missing from the menu and all I could do was save a draft. Reactivating the device did not help, I had to wipe and reactivate, but now it's fine. According to users on blackberryforums.com it's meant to be faster than the 4.1 OS but it seems slower to me ... it's definitely much better overall though.
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