Well I’ve learned a ton about restoring data to exchange 2003 servers in the last 24 hours. I recieved word yesterday morning that a rather crucial employee at work was missing a large chunk of their “Sent Items”. Luckily, we have backups going back far enough that I wasn’t worried about getting the data back. The problem was that since upgrading to Exch2003, we hadn’t had to restore anything yet. Well to make the story very short, MS really did it right this time. Basically you create a “Recovery Storage Group” in exchange. When you run the restore from tape, exchange automatically routes the restored data to the recovery database, which you can mess around with, extract data, etc, without affecting the production exchange database. Previous to exchange 2003, restoring data was a major ordeal, usually requiring us to build up a second exchange server which we’d run the restore to. Major pain. End of the story – the user will be getting his data back tomorrow morning, and I learned a ton about exchange disaster recovery :-)
Via Digg…
I placed a TinyURL bookmarklet on my shorcut bar in firefox about a year ago, and I use it on a daily basis – works great for shortening long links. When I saw a story posted on Digg today about ten Must-Have Bookmarklets, I was quite interested. They have some great bookmarklets listed – I’ll probably get most use out of the Acronym finder and the Wikipedia lookup bookmarklets.
via Slashdot.
That’s dang good stuff. I can’t wait to get my mitts on it. Once again, Redmond should be scared.
Edit….okay maybe not – it just looks like they’re going to promote each others’ products. Booooorrrrinng.
Okay, I’ve tried to resist, but I saw the following meme on Andrea’s blog and found it rather interesting…
Your Linguistic Profile:
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55% General American English |
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15% Upper Midwestern |
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15% Yankee |
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10% Dixie |
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5% Midwestern |
This morning, a bunch of us crazies from work got together to bike along the marathon route in support of a few friends that were running. Alana, who I share a cube wall with, was running, as were the wife (Heather) and friend (Beth) of Mr. Teskey. The ride was great fun, though it really kicked my butt. It was the most riding I’ve done in a _long_ time. Here are a few pictures from the event, and here is the approximate route we biked.
P.S. I need to play with the Autofocus metering on my camera a bit. I’m not happy with how some of the pictures turned out.
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