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I saw this tip on The Lazy Admin submitted by reader Andy Grogan. He wrote a script which will backup certain mailboxes based on OU. The article, script and the command syntax can be found here on TLA.
The Lazy Admin website is a great source for scripts and tips to help you out. Now that Rodney is working for Microsoft Canada, I’m sure we’ll see even more great tips and information.
I’m subscribed, and I would suggest you should be too.
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An old DOS based accounting system (NEBBS) was what the printer had to work with. It is running on a Windows ME machine so this gives you a bit an idea on the age of the computer as well. This is for my wife’s boss and she had an old lexmark inkjet printer fail. I brought over an old laser printer I had kicking around the house, lexmark as well. It worked with NEBBS half decent but had a habit of smearing the cheques (heat problem I think) and it is a huge heavy printer.
We went out tonight and bought a Lexmark E230 to replace the SE3455 which I had brought over. The SE3455 is nice and all but it was a bit big in size and was overkill for the amount of printing they do. I was happy when the E230 started printing when we asked NEBBS to print. I have always had good luck with the Lexmark printers working with legacy applications as long as I stuck to either printing to it from the network or through the LPT port. They had bought a different brand printer last year but it didn’t work with the application.
If you are stuck looking for an inexpensive printer which will work with a legacy application, try the a Lexmark printer. They always seem to work in a pinch with different operating systems. I’ve seen the new ones work with VAX VMS, linux, DOS and Windows without any real problems.
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If you are playing with Virtual Server R2 SP1 Beta 2 and want to back up a running VHD file without stopping and starting the virtual machine, you will be able to, but not with NTBackup.
When I was reading this on Ben’s blog I thought it meant within the Virtual machine, but in reading this post, I figured out they meant backing up at the host machine level.
