Archive for October, 2008

Volume Shadow Service – Network Data recovery for everyone

Volume Shadow Service or VSS is built into Windows 2003 Server. With this great invention I am able to pass the ability for users to recover their network data in a manner they see fit. No more waiting for the tape or harddisk recovery data. Let’s dive right into recovery. Lets say a file is [...]

October 3, 2008 · curtisvonlintel · One Comment
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Word Press Lessons

After tinkering much with the WordPress widgets and plugins I found that many themes are not widget ready. The symptoms of these themes is if you add a widget/plugin the theme default or sidebar widgets will disappear. This is confusing at first, but it gets much more interesting. To overcome this add the desired widgets [...]

October 3, 2008 · curtisvonlintel · Comments Closed
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Spell Checking in Internet Explorer

Probably not a secret tip here, but often, the spellcheck feature is needed in Internet Explorer. I recommend IE Spell. Small, simple, lightweight and it works.

October 1, 2008 · curtisvonlintel · Comments Closed
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Adding Computers to WSUS 3.0 SP1

Great article from Chaks’ Geekzone Corner The WSUS Help is very very good and its your best friend! So dont forget him. Microsoft suggests to use Group Policy for setting up computers and WSUS in clients. So we set our WSUS details in our Group Policy Object (GPO). 1) Create a new GPO     [Do [...]

October 1, 2008 · curtisvonlintel · Comments Closed
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