Backup Exec 2014

Just got BackUp Exec 2014 installed a few days ago and I Love It!!!! This was my preferred backup solution for several years but I lost my exposure and use of the application since my jobs in recent years were purely focused on Exchange. I'm going to date myself and say I was using this product before Symantec got a hold of it, that  was back in the day when it was owned by a company named "Veritas". How many of you remember that name :-). The application is intuition and easy to use especially if you've used previous versions. I'll cover more as I use the product more. BTW it offers a 60 Day Trial period.

How to Install SQL Server 2012 Shared Management Objects

When Installing some SQL Instances it may be requested that you install some management objects for an application server. The link below will assist with the install.


Installing SQL Server2012 Shared Management Objects

PowerShell Script to Generate Email In Test Lab

Below is a post from MVP Paul Cunningham to generate email within your test lab. This script does work for an Exchange 2013 Lab, but there are a few caveats to be mindful of.

- Ensure that your certificates are working on with your environment.
- Ensure that particular attention is given to the hard coding of the Exchange Web Services( EWS) URL

Below is a screen shot of the script if it's working correctly.

Here's the Link

Link #1
Test Lab Mail Generator Update

Link #2
Test Lab Mail Generator

Hyper-V Windows 2012 - How to free up disk space after Snapshot have been deleted and VM(s) have been shut down.

To reclaim the disk space that is being consumed by snapshots that were taken, after deleting the snapshot(s) in the Hyper-V Manager console you typically have to shut down the VM(s) and let the merge process complete but if after doing this the disk space hasn't been released  you must "restart the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service", which will release the space that was being used by the snapshots.