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Things that MIMESweeper can’t do

Jul 24th 2007

By: ben

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Question: What happens when a user sends a 1Mb e-mail to 2000 external recipients, and also requests delivery receipts? Answer: MailSweeper delivery service will die and mail will start to queue on your server. Messages will build up in the 'domains' folders and in 'holding' as your the policy server becomes unable to deliver any [...]

Messaging, Rants
Upgrade ESX from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1

Jul 14th 2007

By: ben

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There seems to be some debate on whether in-place upgrades of ESX server are a good idea, or whether it's better to abandon old versions and go for clean installs. My opinion is that if your server is healthy and you don't have any issues or problems, then there's no need to be scared about [...]

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Patch ESX Server, the easy way

Jul 14th 2007

By: ben

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I've discovered a really great tool for patching ESX servers from Windows: VMTS Patch Manager. It's a bit like WSUS in that all patches are downloaded once to a central repository and you select what you want pushed out from there. You don't need to log on to any ESX servers or spend any time [...]

VMware
Extending virtual disks in ESX Server 3.01

Jul 3rd 2007

By: ben

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Below is the procedure on how to extend the disk of a Windows 2003 virtual server. Before starting please note the following: Microsoft's diskpart utility can only be used to extend dynamic disks. Before using this utility you will need to convert your disks to dynamic using the Disk Management utility in the Computer Management [...]

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