The Sys Admin

Acronis True Image

One tool that we often use is Acronis True Image with Universal Restore. Acronis True Image allows us to easily migrate off of older hardware onto new hardware with it support of dissimilar hardware types. You can take and Image of an application running on an older outdated piece of hardware and restore that image onto newer hardware. It does not matter if the seed or target servers have a Raid configuration, you simply re-apply the appropriate drivers and it works.We have done this many times and it is worth checking out.

This functionality is very similar to Ghost and although I have never used Ghost, here is a comparison of Ghost vs True Image.

Technorati : System Administration

Technet Webcast Weblog

In the last few months Microsoft has published a lot of content on their Technet Webcast Weblog. I have provided links to most of the new content which includes information on Sharepoint, Windows Server 2008, and the Communications Server:

SharePoint 2007 Podcasts - Collaboration, Content Management, Search

TechNet Radio: Network Access Protection (NAP) for Windows Server 2008

New Short-Format Audio Podcasts for Office System Productivity

New Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Virtual Labs

SharePoint & Office Open XML Short Format Webcast Express Pilot

24 Hours of Exchange Webcast Series

Technet Audio Podcasts

If you are supporting Microsoft Infrastructure and would like to learn more about their newer products then the Technet Webcast Weblog is a great starting place.

Technorati : Microsoft

ITIDIOTS and The Daily Cup of Tech

I wanted to share my thoughts with you on a couple of sites. One site I have mentioned before the other is new to me. The sites are The ITIDIOTS and The Daily Cup of Tech. Both sites have a tremendous amount of content for folks looking to refine their technical skills.

The ITIDIOTS is a great podcast/videocast with many training videos and screencasts for people working in IT or studying for their MCSE exams. They also touch on pc, mac, ipod and zune topics.

The Daily Cup of Tech has a great series on server failures that they labeled the Server Failure Lesson. The Daily Cup of Tech blog also had a contest for the best tool and resource ideas for a small 32 MB USB drive. Here is the link to their USB Contest and a great list of PC Repair tools that fit on a 32mb USB Drive.

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