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- MaxPowerSoft released Active Directory Reports 2.3.1.1 I reviewed the former free version a while back. Please check out their blog for more information.
- Event Log Blog: Great post about NTFS Alternate Data Streams and tools for displaying and manipulating them.
- Leonardo has an interesting formula for creating passwords. Hard to crack, easy to remember.
- Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 Update 1 Released. New features: Support for Vista SP1, Office 2007, Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows XP SP2 + SP3.
- Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream This confirms the results of my poll. My next laptop will definitely run Vista x64.
- Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year. Gosh, we just deployed IE7 a few months ago.
- Microsoft Security Advisory (956187) Increased Threat for DNS Spoofing Vulnerability.
- Backup Exec 12 There are no features that convince me. We’re still planning to move to DPM 2007. Will blog about it.
- Midori in the blogosphere: Windows Connected - Computerworld Blogs – Microsoft Watch I will only take it for real when I see the first beta.
- Microsoft Sphere is real! Don’t tell me that this isn’t cool.
Backup Exec must be one of the most unreliable pieces of software ever developed, and the customer support follows suit.
I have been working with Windows Servers since 1996, and I have never seen a server with Backup Exec installed that didn’t, after some time, have problems with the backups. I have successfully switched every server away from BackupExec.
I would highly recommend that anybody in the need for backups (and who isn’t) consider alternatives.
We’ve used NTBackup and BackupAssist to work quite well in most scenarios.
I absolutely agree that Backup Exec is very unreliable. And that is probably the worst thing that can happen for a backup tool. I think that the future belongs to continuous data protection anyway. Backup Exec supports this now. However, in my view it doesn’t make sense to just add CDP features to a conventional backup tool. CDP is conceptually quite different that it is better to just start from scratch with a new solution.