unity connection – empty a single user mailbox

there’s no native method of emptying a single user mailbox in unity connection that i’m aware of. the user could go to the web inbox to empty it, but there’s no way to do it from an admin perspective. i googled some for a solution and found that the unity tool bulk user delete will […]

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dell latitude e6510 – hdmi audio

more than a year ago i spent an entire weekend trying to get HDMI audio out working on a latitude e6510. the video worked fine, but i was stuck with no audio. i remember trying just about everything to get it to work. i was having one of those moments where you feel like such […]

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unity connection – database proxy service

since i need the database proxy service running very infrequently, i often forget the steps required to enable it. so here they are: in connection administration->system settings->advanced->connection administration database proxy: service shutdown timer needs to have a value greater than 0 unity connection serviceability – log in with application administrator account activate the connection database proxy […]

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unity connection – message currently not available

today i verified that a user was unable to listen to a specific voicemail message while logged into unity connection. they could log in fine, but when they chose to play new messages they heard “message currently not available”. the only article i could find regarding this issue was this: https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/3307034#3307034 i chose the solution of […]

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upgrading fedora

not too long ago i was upgrading fedora 14 to 15 then 15->16. i was trying to use the official method by upgrading thru yum, but the upgrade process kept getting hungup on a gvfs package. i couldn’t seem to get around this nor could i find a solution online. i eventually found an alternate […]

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audacious 3.x

yesterday, i noticed i could no longer play wma files with audacious in ubuntu. and i was fairly certain that i was able to before. did some googling and it appears that ubuntu 11.10 ships with a much older version of audacious (still in the 2.x series). the webup8 PPA carries a newer 3.x version […]

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vsphere 5.0 licensing

as time goes on it becomes more important to take a closer look at vsphere 5 and esxi in general. i was just watching a presentation on vram licensing that was laughable. the way they try to marketing-speak explain that this is an improvement on the licensing model and that physical constraints are removed, this […]

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vmware data recovery 2.0

to upgrade from a vdr 1.x appliance: unmount any CIFS shares while the vdr appliance is idle shutdown and delete or rename vdr 1.x appliance deploy vdr 2.0 appliance configure vdr 2.0 appliance and re-add CIFS shares manually perform an integrity check there’s no method to directly upgrade a vdr 1.x appliance to a vdr […]

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vsphere client: performance data not available

from within the vsphere client while looking at charts on the performance tab, you might receive “performance data is currently not available for this entity” when trying to chart weekly/monthly/etc stats. if you also happen to be using mssql on the vcenter server then there’s a good chance the sql agent isn’t running. without the […]

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upgrading windows 2003 to windows 2008

well, you’d think that upgrading windows server to the next release wouldn’t be too much trouble. the windows 2008 upgrade install just happens to have a problem with powershell being installed though. and most likely everyone has applied service packs or windows updates to 2003 so that powershell has snuck onto the system some way […]

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