Posted Wed, 11/04/2009 - 14:38 by MWalker
Along the lines of moving your GoogleAppsSync Connector Outlook data to another system, I did a similar recovery for a user that got the nasty "unable to open your default folders" error. Not entirely sure why, but users with large mailboxes seem to bump into this periodically where their Outlook profile just bombs out.
Posted Tue, 11/03/2009 - 15:16 by MWalker
With the release of Google's Outlook AppSync Connector, many users and organizations have used this tool to connect Microsoft Outlook to GoogleApps email. One of the most painful parts of the AppSync Connector is the initial synchronization process. Having a large mailbox means this process could take quite a long time.
Posted Wed, 10/28/2009 - 09:21 by MWalker
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Posted Tue, 10/27/2009 - 16:37 by MWalker
Recently I have had several laptops deployed that have experienced severe lag and performance issues as well as application hangs/crashes. Upon investigation, it seemed to consitantly relate to the following two executables:
Posted Tue, 10/27/2009 - 08:47 by MWalker
I usually stick with Fedora/RedHat and CentOS flavors of Linux. Recently though, I needed to monitor a new Ubuntu test server via Nagios NRPE. The sources I was using to build and install just did not play nice on first pass. So I figured for the one off, I would try the easy way.
Posted Fri, 10/23/2009 - 11:34 by MWalker
If you are like me, you have to dig through some log files to research some errors. The ../var/nagios.log file has alot of data and unfortunately the times stamps are not exactly friendly to read.
[1256314960] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;hostname;servicename;0;Service running OK
Posted Mon, 10/19/2009 - 16:08 by MWalker
Using Nagios with NSCA, you can configure some complex scripts / tasks to output status codes and messages to be sent to your Nagios server for collection / reporting. To start, you will need to install NSCA package on your Nagios server and configure the listening server as outlined in the documenation.
Posted Fri, 10/09/2009 - 10:42 by MWalker
I recently was dragged into a corporate disaster situtation that was not my own. Lets just say it was as a favor to numerous parties. The whole exercise reminded me ...
Posted Tue, 09/29/2009 - 12:04 by MWalker
One user was getting hundreds of messages an hour in her inbox. The messages all seemed to be BlackBerry system messages. Usually these are processed and never seen by the user. See the example message below...
Posted Tue, 09/29/2009 - 11:36 by MWalker
Google created the GoogleAppsSync Connector for Outlook to create an Exchange like feel for users who still wanted to use Outlook instead of converting to the GoogleApps interfaces. The connector installation is fairly straight forward and creates a mail profile for your user. The last step offers you the option to import existing mail.
