Posts tagged geeky
Adding Exchange mailboxes from a text file by way of awk
Mar 9th
When you get a virtual server or a vmForge Virtual Data Center from us, you can choose to manage it yourself or have us take care of it. If you choose ipHouse management on a Windows virtual machine, I will probably be involved with your server management. Here is a recent task related to that role.
I hope others find it helpful.
I was adding a list of users to an Exchange 2010 server. There is a quick way and a slow way to do that. The quick way and slow way trade places when the list grows to a certain size. The quick way is to open Exchange Management Console, expand Recipient Configuration, and click New Mailbox. Type in the proper values and click next a few times, then click Finish.
The slow way is to create the PowerShell commands to add the mailboxes from a text file containing all the user data and paste it into PowerShell. It is also the quick way, if you have enough users to add.
Speeding up JS
Feb 23rd
As web pages become richer and more complex, from dynamic interface effects to loading content via AJAX, they can also become burdened with Javascript libraries which put more load on your network and degrade the user experience of your website.
There are two parts to speeding up JavaScript on your website. The first addresses how quickly your page loads, and the second how well it responds to the user. There are several things you can do to improve the former, while the latter is mostly at the mercy of the web browser’s Javascript engine.
Log like a paranoid Lumberjack!
Feb 21st
Ok, so maybe I’m a touch paranoid, but I like logging. I also like monitoring, and statistics. I like to know what’s going on, when and how. I don’t mind a little noise, as long as I can quickly assess what’s happening with my servers.
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Colo to Virtual Data Center Success – January, 2012
Feb 7th
Back in October, 2011, I had posted an article titled ‘Colocation is so 1990s…‘ discussing why I feel colocation is going the way of the dodo for most SMB business needs, and really, it isn’t as efficient as using a virtual data center anyway.
In the middle of January I helped someone move away from colocation into our vmForge VDC service offering.
Think in the cloud but without the variable monthly billing or non-persistent storage.
“virtual data center” has a nice ring to it doesn’t it?
Here, There Be Storage Related Dragons…
Feb 3rd
I’m venturing into territory that I don’t understand; disk scheduling algorithms in Linux. If you know more about this than I then please feel free to disabuse me of any mistaken notions, fundamental errors, or unfortunate statements that I may make in the blog post for future updates. This is something that I barely grasp but I like to explore and learn. So at the risk of my professional pride, and with the help of Wikipedia, here I go!
Changing your disk scheduler on a Linux virtual machine to increase performance.
