Change Background of a Single PowerPoint 2007 Slide
It’s infuriating when something you’ve done for years in Office 2003 suddenly seems impossible in Office 2007. Case in point: changing the background of a single PowerPoint slide. It seems …
Can’t Install Exchange 2007 Management Tools on XP
The only supported way to import .pst files into Exchange 2007 is to use Exchange Management Tools installed on a 32-bit machine running Outlook 2003 or 2007: Exchange Team Blog. …
Best RAID and Cluster Size for a Small Server
What’s the best disk setup on a small business server? I recently got to play around with some options as I set up a Hyper-V host on a Dell PowerEdge …
ShadowProtect Fails Reading Hyper-V Pass-Through Disk
I decided to use ShadowProtect to do a physical-to-virtual (P2V) move of an SBS 2003 machine. I booted the SBS 2003 machine from a ShadowProtect 3.5 CD and created offline …
Re-Create Dell Utility Partition after Windows Server 2008 Bare Metal Restore
So you’ve used Windows Server 2008 bare metal restore and it wiped out your Dell Utility Partition. What to do? Background: I’m setting up a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine …
Diskpart Does Not See Volumes on OEM Partitions
As I worked today on recreating a Dell Utility Partition, I encountered this factoid: Diskpart, when run inside Windows, does not see volumes on OEM partitions.
MCB Now Certified in SBS 2008
I’ve been a Microsoft Certified Professional for several years. Recently I invested the time to prepare for and take Microsoft exam 70-653. With that successfully behind me, I’m now a …
Custom Format Drive During Server 2008 Install
I’m installing SBS 2008 in a Hyper-V VM. I want the system partition to be formatted with 16KB allocation unit (cluster) size. Whether that turns out to be a good …
Remove a Contact from an Outlook 2007 Distribution List
You may have learned the hard way that if you open a distribution list in Outlook 2007, highlight one contact, and click on Delete, the entire distribution list is deleted! …
WordPress at Go Daddy Slow Compared to BlogEngine.NET
Through the end of May, this blog was run on BlogEngine.NET and hosted on a Small Business Server through a DSL connection with a maximum 768 kbps upload speed. On …