Musings on technology, faith, family and leadership
Well, the time has come. It's time to start transitioning our current Exchange 2007 environment to Exchange 2010. Here's a little info re: our current Exchange 2007 environment: Single Exchange 2007 Enteprise – running CAS, HT & Mailbox roles Virtualized… Read moreExchange 2010 – Part 1 – Initialization & Pre-requisites
So, this weekend was a busy weekend for Active Directory work at LifeChurch.tv – prep work for Exchange 2010 migration. Hooray! We have a multi-site (physical and Active Directory sites) network – with 18 domain controllers. Until a few weeks… Read moreDomain Controller Changes – Server 2008 R2 DNS Broken
Here's a summary of the last few weeks: ice snow rain ice snow rain Do you see a pattern? From January 4 – 25, I participated in a 21-day "Daniel Fast" along with the large majority of the staff at… Read moreJanuary 2010 Update (Time flies)
Let's take a quick break from the typical techno mumbo jumbo… I'm a fairly goals-driven person. I am a high achiever and "compete" with myself to become better at my career (technology) and become a better leader. For the last… Read moreMy 3 Words – 2010 – Read, Share, Play
Happy New Year! I thought I'd start off 2010 with finishing my blog series on our Veeam Backup setup. Here's what we've talked about so far: Veeam Backup – Part 1 – Background & Installation UPGRADED: Veeam Backup & Replication… Read moreVeeam Backup – Part 3 – Our Setup
Welcome back! I sure hope you haven't been holding your breath for the last 5 months since my first post on Veeam Backup. If so – impressive! Here's what I've written so far – so you can catch up. Veeam… Read moreVeeam Backup – Part 2 (and a half) – Servers and Jobs
So… every once in a while some stupid spammer will harvest our email addresses from our website. And, chances are this spammer doesn't agree with our Church and proceeds to email us telling us why we suck. And emails us… Read moreExchange 2007 – Blocking Stupid Spammers
So, the last few weeks have flown by. In many ways, both physically & electronically, I've rebooted my workflow. I've had a GTD-like work process for quite a while, but have gotten sloppy as of late. So, I took about… Read moreRebooting My Workflow
So, I'm in the process of getting all my various Veeam Backup jobs scheduled. I've got several different jobs for several different types of servers – Windows, Linux, Apps/SQL, Email, Files, etc. I'm separating them because of different requirements on… Read moreStorage vMotion To The Rescue
I've blogged before about how LifeChurch.tv uses Websense for filtering / logging our Internet traffic at our central location. At our remote locations, we've used IPCop + Dansguardian. It's worked okay. Recently, we performed the upgrade to Websense v7.1 and… Read moreWebsense: Synchronized Policies For Remote Campuses