http://ukstokes.com/blog where Windows and Linux work in harmony Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:12:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week I've had to refresh my memory with something I've not done in a long time. I had to recover a mailbox store for an urgent mailbox restore, but in this case the server that was the home of the mailbox at the date they wanted had been decommissioned ... http://ukstokes.com/blog/2008/10/16/exchange-mailbox-store-restores/ One of our users has an occasional requirement to manually run a scheduled task on a server. I wanted him to do this without logging on via RDP. Scheduled tasks can be run remotely using the SVHTASKS program (on Windows XP and Server 2003) so I started writing a VB ... http://ukstokes.com/blog/2008/10/16/run-a-scheduled-task-using-vbs/ First of all a little disclaimer - although I've done this a few times and never had any problems, one should never consider resizing partitions a completely foolproof exercise. Things can go wrong. With regards to swap though, don't worry if your swap partition is destroyed as this will not ... http://ukstokes.com/blog/2008/08/12/resize-swap-partitions-on-red-hat-linux/ I've been asked by a group of users if they can have a daily report of everything the fax server has sent. Since the fax software we're using doesn't have this feature, I thought I'd write some vb script to pull all of lines containing yesterday's date from the log ... http://ukstokes.com/blog/2008/08/07/bash-vs-vbs-bash-wins/ One thing I'm currently working on is a 2 node CentOS cluster using GFS as the shared file system, with the storage on a fibre attached HP MSA SAN. This is a proof of concept before investing in RHEL AS licences (which will be the better part of £2000). CentOS is free and is intended ... http://ukstokes.com/blog/2008/06/24/oracle-rac-centos-and-gfs/ In short - it's been good, a valuable use of my time. The presentation throughout the summit was of a very high standard, and this included the catering too. If I had to summarise the summit I would do so using the following 5 buzzwords: 1. Virtualisation. Guess what ...? Red Hat ... http://ukstokes.com/blog/2008/06/20/red-hat-summit-2008-closing-post/ Red Hat have made another important announcement at this years Summit - RH Satellite has been made open source! At first I was excited, because: Red Hat customers can save hundreds of dollars as it's now free - you don't have to buy an RHAS licence for a RH Satellite (that ... http://ukstokes.com/blog/2008/06/19/spacewalk-red-hat-satellite-for-free/ There were 2 seminars that stood out for me today after Joel Cowen's (Executive producer of The Simpsons) amusing Keynote speech - did you know The Simpsons is rendered on Red Hat? The first of the noteworthy seminars was Michael Stahnkage on how to manage RHEL updates. He's one of the ... http://ukstokes.com/blog/2008/06/19/red-hat-summit-day-2/ Day 1 has been pretty interesting. The surprise highlight for me was the keynote speech from Dr John Halamka (CIO, Harvard Medical School) about the challenges he faces with computerising patient records for the state of Massachusetts, and how he is using Red Hat and open source technologies to do ... http://ukstokes.com/blog/2008/06/19/red-hat-summit-day-1/ I've been given a fantastic opportunity to attend this years Red Hat Summit, being held in Boston next week. It's a 3 day event with opportunities to attend seminars, workshops and exhibitions, with a bit of socialising and networking thrown in as well. Hopefully I will come away from the ... http://ukstokes.com/blog/2008/06/13/red-hat-summit-2008/