Category Archives: Servers

SharePoint site suddenly Read Only even for Administrators!

So at some point in time something had happened to our SharePoint 2010 server to cause what appeared to be a total lock down on the SharePoint sites. It must have been something strange, something weird, who knows what but … Continue reading

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FileZilla Server passive settings

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) may seem a bit old hat in the days of peer-to-peer but is still one of the most widely used transfer protocols, especially in business. The biggest problem with FTP is that in order to create … Continue reading

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Entering Exchange 2010 Product Key After installation

I had to install Exchange 2010 on a 120day trial for a client recently.  The planned weekend for the down time had arrived but the new partner licenses had not.  No bother I thought, it will be easy to enter … Continue reading

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Seagate 2TB ST32000542AS CC35 Firmware upgrade

We have a Synology DS1010+ diskstation that has been having trouble maintaining a iSCSI link to a server here at work.  While Synology issued us a patch that seems to have resolved the issue they highlighted that our disks, Seagate 2TB … Continue reading

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Managing the Azure service as a programmer

I’ve been really, really busy this week both in and out of work and have been struggling to find time to get all the interesting things we have been doing with Windows Azure down on paper. This morning while troubleshooting a broken SAN … Continue reading

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