How NOT to write a resume - pretty funny
by admin on November 17th, 2008
This was an actual resume for a position at a bowling alley, but I think we could all take a minute to see why this style of resume might not be “the best” in any situation.
I’ll give you a little taste…
… While we were on the farm, my grandparents, mother, and I would take two weeks out of the summer to go on family vacations. I can still remember my first trip out of Florida. It was to the state of Florida. My first grade year we went to the grand canyon, my first grade teacher rode down it on a mule. My first grade teacher was Mrs. Maphles. I was the brightest in my class when it came to math and numbers.
Our blog is back…
by admin on November 10th, 2008
After some problems with our site being reported as “hostile”, we cleared up the confusion with google and all is now well. So yeah, o we lost like every 50 something posts because we panicked… o well what can you do. Zaltan
Hello world!
by admin on November 9th, 2008
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Google and Site Management
by admin on May 25th, 2008
For some very strange reason we have found that the Fruit Box I.T site has been completley removed from the google search network. Our adwords ads are still appearing obviously, however our high ranked index has been destroyed. No reason why this has happened, the only changes we made lately is moving the Fruit Box blog from the wordpress server to our own. We also installed the complete SEO pack for the wordpress blog, but i dont think it worked anyway so im not sure if this was the reason or not. Anyway we are still looking into it, and we do find out what happened we will let you all know just in case it ever happens to you.
Stay tuned for more results on this problem!
Sharepoint Services 3.0 and Incoming Email
by admin on May 22nd, 2008
Ok so we had a challenge, and that challenge nearly defeated us but we won! We had to make it so a sharepoint site could receive email and automatically upload the file into the required document library based on the email address.
Here was the scenario,
We have 3 servers, 1 a SBS server with the domain global.local, and 1 terminal server which is connected to the domain as a server only, not an AD server. We also have 1 sharepoint services server which is not attached to the domain. This was the server that needed to receive the incoming email. We have no intentions of attaching this to AD or utilising exchange, so this is how we did it and got it working
1. setup sharepoint services 3.0
2. install the SMTP services options from add/remote software on windows server 2003 - WHATEVER YOU DO DONOT INSTALL THE POP3 SERVICE FROM THE MANAGE SERVER ROLES
3. we wanted it so people could send an email to %username%@sharepoint.local, so we added an alias under the smtp service for this address, you should see the server name as the default domain. leave this setting as it is.
4. we were now able to use outlook to send an email to the email address we made on the server by telling sharepoint to use the drop mail directory located by looking at the defealt domain entry under the smtp service (under IIS).
5. email are now sent to this server using outlook or whatever and using the server name as the default smtp service address.
I know this is difficult to understand, so if you would like to know more how we did this please visit us at www.fruitboxit.com.au and use the contact form to contact us.
Microsoft Sharepoint Services 3.0
by admin on May 16th, 2008
If your looking for a rich and powerful document management system, then you cant go wrong with Microsoft SharePoint Service 3.0. There latest edition of this software (which is FREE, and available for X86 and X64 bit system) makes managing information on internet or intranet simple, but yet effective. Easy to setup and manage online libraries etc, this software has now become to benchmark for Fruit Box I.T customers, as we host our customer portal on a sharepoint site. Our online helpdesks are delivered directly into the customers portal, which makes submitting new tasks a breeze.
Some points, firsty you dont have to be attached to an active directory domain to setup users, using local users and groups works as well, however if you have many users you will benefit from joining the server to the domain so you have access to the AD accounts.
I dont recommand installing this on a windows sbs 2003 server as the IIS gets messy, and can make it a real hassle to get exchange outlook web and sharpoint to co-exist as it comes pre-installed with sharepoint 2.0
the handling of security can take a little to get used to, but once you have your head around it, it all makes sense
Windows Server 2003 SBS and Windows Server 2003 R2 x64
by admin on May 11th, 2008
Have you ever tried to join an R2 server to a non R2 domain controller? A classic example is having a SBS2003 server and needing to add an additional 2003 server to your domain, however this 2003 server will be an R2 version. At first you will get an error about not being able to join the domain, the reason being is the R2 Active Directory structure is different from the non-R2 structure. At first it would appear there is no solution to this problem, and the main problem i had was preparing the sbs2003 (32bit) AD for a Windows server 2003 R2 (64bit) server. Ok there is hotfix available from Microsoft that you need to run on the SBS2003 32bit server, this will allow you to join the 64bit R2 server to the domain, even thou sbs isnt R2.
In a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 forest in which all domain controllers run only an x86-based version of Windows, you experience one of the following symptoms:
| • | You cannot deploy a Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition-based domain controller. |
| • | You cannot deploy Windows Server 2003 R2 schema-dependent features. |
When you try to run the the Adprep.exe tool, you may receive the following error message:
Cheers
VMware 2.0 Beta and 64bit OS Problem
by admin on May 8th, 2008
Ok this is going to be a short post but i know there are alot of people out there who are trying to run a 64but server on top of a 32bit host (ok so the host is the server that will run the virtual server, the guest is known as the virtual server). Some people are saying “ooo it cant be done, if you want the guest to be 64bit then the host has to be on a 64bit o/s…bzzzzzzzz wrong). Anyway the possibility of running a 64bit guest on a 32bit host is simple in most cases, and this is what needs to be done.
1. Make sure the CPU in the server is a 64bit processor (obviously you cant run a 64bit O/S without the proper hardware. If you are running an Intel chip you should download the intel identification program from the intel website, this should tell you what you got in your server.
2. After you have verified you have a 64bit cpu, make sure the virtualisation options are enabled in the BIOS, this option is usually VTT or intel virtualisation technology, this has to be enabled otherwise when you boot your guest o/s with the 64bit o/s it will spit an error
Ok hope this has cleared up a little bit on this topic, im currently running Windows 2003 server 64bit r2 on a Windows sbs 2003 32bit r2 server, not really recommanded but its working well so far, only gave the guest 512MB ram thou.
Cheers
Google Adwords Reflections
by admin on May 7th, 2008
As a long time user with google adwords, which of course is there adverising campaign, i would just like to express how impressed i am with how the system works. Its simpel to use, simple to manage and makes creation of ads on the google site easy as 1,2,3. Fruit Box I.T has been using google ads since the business begun last year, and not yet have we had one problem with using the system. We are also a long time user of the yahoo version (which also serves ads to live.com search), we have had good success with this product as well however we find it harder to use than the google adswords service. At first the keyword selection was annoying to use until we got our head around how it works, but with the google version you add keywords into the ad you select, yahoo do it a little differently. Overall thou, we dont spend alot with google or yahoo as our website has been SEO optimised for google and appear as number 1 nearly in all I.T searches for Newcastle, but we do spend roughly $25 a month or less. not alot but alot of impressions. Good work google!
Acronis True Image Echo Server Reflections
by admin on May 6th, 2008
Working with Acronis products has been something we have been doing before they got popular, especially the server side products (true image server which is now acronis echo server). Overall my experience with this product has been pretty positive and i would recommand it for small buisnesses running a simple sbs server. Installation of the product is simple, admin of the product is straight forward and once you have your head around imaging software then you should have a pretty good ride with it. However there are some things that i have not been to impressed with.
1. I went to USN hell on one of my customers network, and until after i had re-imaged the primary server froma backup i found that the other domain controller (especially a windows 2003 exchange 2008 server) no longer wanted to sync with the domain controller. USN problems occur when a primary server has been imaged and still thinks its holding the lastest AD structure, so when you reimage the server all other servers will loose sync with it because they are actually holding the latest version. Crazy to get your head around i know, so people using this product in a multi server enviroment make sure you make a backup of the system state and also a backup of each individual exchange mailbox (can never be to sure). If you would like to know more about our experience with this product and restoring backups visit our www.fruitboxit.com.au site and contact us
2. this product seems to in some cases damage the micrsoft volume shadow copy service, i now have had 2 servers with its volume shadow copy service damaged to what i believe is a result of this product. I also had a server with stop error 0×0000000b occuring, and until i booted into safe mode and stopped the volume shadow copy service, it then booted.
3. Acronis has inbuilt tape support, however im not sure how reliable this component is, so i have had nothing but problems with this feature of the product, and i has gotten to a point where its more reliable (not cost effective) to purcahse a seperate tape writting software like vertias backup exec to handle the tape services.
4. Was not to impressed with there support team, after sending problems to them they were slow to reply and in some cases had to send them “whats going on” emails to see where they are up to.