Operations Manager 2007 R2, Highly Scalable Systems, and High Disk Queue on the C drive
On several of our extremely scalable systems running SQL server (servers with 24 processors and about 200 GB of memory)…
Outlook 2010 Suggested Contacts
I noticed the yesterday that I had a HUGE number of duplicate contacts on my phone. I also noticed that…
IBM X3650 M2, SAN Attached, Issues booting to local drives
Our team has several IBM X3650 M2 servers that we were configuring to have access to one of our SANs.…
Overview of Custom Field Types in WSS 3.0
Uses of Custom Field Types WSS 3.0 and MOSS have a rich set of field types that ship from Microsoft…
Formatting the Gantt Chart in MS Project 2007
Still working on documenting the instructions from the Houston MPUG event a couple of weeks ago. It’s amazing how…
Outlook 2010: First Impressions
I have been using Office 2010 for about a week now and here are some first impressions of Outlook 2010.…
Windows Server 2008 Product Activation & Operations Manager
Recently I logged into my RMS server and had a somewhat unpleasant surprise. While I am sure that I had…
How can a resource be over allocated when they work less than 8 hours in a day?
Challenge: A resource on my project is scheduled to work 5 hours on one particular day. MS Project is showing…
MOPS07: Cannot Export My Tasks to Excel
I wanted to document this interesting issue. (Well, interesting to me at least). All credit goes to Ijaz Rasheed for…
Windows 2008 Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is great
One of the problems that Catapult Consultants has at times is the restrictions of outbound traffic while at a client…