Sometimes your clients need to get an overview of who’s getting all the mails for the various distribution groups they’ve had you create. Sometimes they forget who’s been added or removed. I use this script to give them an up-to-date view of where the mail is going.
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Mass changing of DSNs
DSN changes are ubiquitous in any most systems that need to connect directly to a database. Although you can prevent them by aliasing your DB to a CNAME and doing the modification globally, or adding an additional IP address, that’s something you learn “for the next time”. Here’s my script on how to do this easily.
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Mistakes II: Backup Hell
Everyone pays lip service to backups, but I find that not too many people are actually doing them, and most of the ones that are do it poorly. Sounds like the high school locker room, actually, but I digress. The issue is simple, too:
We don’t care about backups; we care about restores.
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Mistakes I: Using Home Computer Software on Business Machines
We’ve all done it…we grab a copy of Norton Antivirus™ to install on our brand-spanking new office machine thinking this will keep me safe…Resist this urge, here’s why. Continue reading “Mistakes I: Using Home Computer Software on Business Machines”