The Pale Blue Spot

If you can help it, just don't do it. It's been a long time since I've had to restore an Exchange server at all, so it took me a while just to get the process down. Still, even after restoring Exchange 'by the book' I am running into errors that I can find almost no reference to anywhere on the web. I believe it has something to do with the fact that the server was originally a physical machine which I converted to a VM and am now running in VMWare Workstation. The old volumes that previously contained the Exchange store are no longer available, so after cloning the Windows drive to the virtual machine I added the disks I needed and started the restore process. Everything looks like it should be fine, but for some reason when I try to mount the Information Store Exchange tells me that the Hard Recovery option was not set on the restored database, even though I know for a fact that it was. I thought that this was okay since I could still run the "eseutil /cc&q

The bottom line is that, I'm thankful to have a job. I really do have it pretty good, so I shouldn't complain. The company that I've worked at for a (non-consecutive) total of over 5 years, Yosemite Technologies, was bought out by Barracuda Networks last December. Overall, I would have to say that it was a good thing since YT would probably not have lasted much longer and we all would have been unemployed. On the other hand, there are definitely a few things that I miss about Yosemite. It was a much smaller company that Barracuda- at the time we were purchased, only 35 employees compared to well over 500. When a company gets to be the size that we are now there are certain factors that come into play which are all but avoidable. Communication between departments and remote offices becomes much more inefficient. Many times, it seems like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. The strangest thing to me is the fact that I can go to our headquarters