Archive for the ‘Work / Microsoft’ Category

Silly networker error message

This has been bugging me for a while.  Every so often after I get a waiting for tape message which is then handeled it get NetWorker media request: (critical) Waiting for 0 writable volume(s) to backup pool ‘Daily’ tape on <server name> Huh?  I suppose strictly I should go and remove all writable volumes(s) from [...]

January 8, 2012 · robert · No Comments
Posted in: bugs, Work / Microsoft

AutoIT: _WordDocFindReplace in TextBox + Disable Macros

The Default _WordDocFindReplace only works with pretty standard word documents (It’s more the fault of the way VBA’s find function work the word.au3). However thanks to a few VBA samples on the web I’ve managed to come up with some code to get around this issue. First do your normal find & replace to catch [...]

July 22, 2011 · robert · No Comments
Tags: , ,  Â· Posted in: Howtos, Work / Microsoft

Cacti

Just added another plug-in to cacti over the last couple of weeks – weathermap. Basically allows you to draw diagrams of you’re network, and it takes data from the rrd files and displays different coloured arrows show the percentage of the link used. Basically allowing you to see whats going on, on your network and [...]

July 2, 2006 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Networking, Software, Thumbs Up, Work / Microsoft

Microsoft Search

Had something interesting occur it work. We were trying to free up space on the server that stores My Documents (in desperation), removing large files which were obviously not work related, and compressing some of the un-used large files that were work related. Unfortunately I forgot to hold down shift and sent a couple of [...]

January 25, 2006 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Work / Microsoft

SMS broke my Citrix Servers

Well ok it didn’t brake them, just upset them a little bit. It appears after someone other Hospital installed SMS to our new domain at forest level, and didn’t enter in any boundaries, nor exclude servers SMS has ended up on all of the new Citrix serves. This wouldn’t be too bad if it wasn’t [...]

December 13, 2005 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Work / Microsoft