Data Recovery Tips for Sharepoint Sites

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These tips were gathered from the excellent presentation made by Mr Joel Oleson (http://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx).

1. Sharepoint Recycle bins
2. Sharepoint Central Website, Operations / Perform Backup
3. stsadm -o backp
4. SQL backup and restore
5. SQL clusters, database mirroring, log shipping

The key takeaway is that sharepoint relies on a lot of services to be running, and so, simply backing up the sql database would not be enough to recover a site. You will need to backup a lot of other files as well. The shortcut, just use the Sharepoint Central website’s Perform Backup to do this.

Green Virtualized Dedicated Server Hosting Package

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Green Virtualized dedicated Servers from BNS Hosting offers the twin benefit of high performance AND lower power usage. The Green Virtualized Servers uses newer Quad Xeon Processors that provides the horsepower to run demanding applications and at the same time uses less energy- decreasing our carbon footprint.

This Virtualized Dedicated server hosting package runs on top of Microsoft Windows 2003 and virtualization technics that combines to cater to our client’s needs – better control over their server at a significantly affordable package.

The Green Virtualized dedicated server hosting includes the following specifications:

·         15 GB of storage space

·         100 GB of bandwidth per month

·         256 MB of guaranteed memory burstable up to 512 mb RAM

·         2 FREE support incidents per month

·         Quad XEON processors

You control your virutalized dedicated server via Microsoft’s RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and install applications on your server. You create your own user authentication database and use your dedicated IP address. This dedicated IP address isolates your server from common problems associated with shared hosting —shared  IP address being listed in spam blacklists.

We can customize the Green virtualized Dedicated server Package by adding options to it. Bigger storage space, higher bandwidth, higher memory, more support incidents are some of the features that can be modified to suit your needs. Give us a call or email us at team[at]bnshosting.net to learn more about our Green virtualized dedicated server hosting package.

BNS Attends Microsoft TechEd 2008 in Malaysia

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BNS president, Mr Wilson L. Chua is in Kuala Lumpur to attend Microsoft TechEd 2008 and learn about new Microsoft technologies that can be applied to help BNS clients with their internet strategies and execution.

More details to follow as BNS attends the seminars and the live hands on training on HPC, Hyper-V server virutalization and of course, web farms and IIS 7.0 functionality in windows 2008

Reducing NDR Spams with SenderID tool

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First of all, what is NDR?

NDR stands for Non-delivery Report. These are emails. Basically, you receive this type of NDR emails because an email you sent to someone did not reach the intended recipient.

But why are you getting NDRs from mail servers for mail you NEVER sent? The answer: Spammers are spoofing your email address. They are claiming to be YOU when they send out emails (oh yes it can be done easily).

So let us say that your email address is user@domain.com. A spammer got hold of your email and then ’spoofs’ it. This means that the spammer is now sending out spam using YOUR email address. Because spammers send out thousands of emails – (some to wrong address), the mail servers of the domain will naturally send out a notice that the email could not be sent (either the reciepient is non-existent, or the mailbox is full).

These Non delivery notices via email are then sent to the sender’s email address. In the above scenario, they will be sent back to you. Even if you did not really send the email in the first place! And that explains why you are getting tons of NDR emails even if you did not send any emails out!

The internet community has come up with a way to combat or reduce these types of NDRs and spams. It is called the SPF (Sender provider framework). In simple terms, we put up a record on your domain that says email from your domain can only be sent out from a list of accredited email servers. This makes it hard for spammers that use their own mail servers to ’spoof’ your identity anymore. This will reduce the spam they send out, and also reduce the NDR spams you get!!

Interesting now isnt it? So how do you enable SPF on your domain? The solution is fairly simply as well!

Use Microsoft’s senderID tool and follow the prompts. For our hosted clients that need us to enable their SPF on their domains, kindly contact your account executive to start the process! Do let us know if this has helped you and your experience with NDR once the SPF has been implemented.

.SG Great Deals!

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BNShosting is offering a promo on .SG domain registration for the month of August only. All registrations for this month for .SG domains will only be 6.5 USD. This price does not include domain proxy cost (if you dont have a business residence in singapore, you will need to have the domain proxy.

Living with Liver Disease

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Living with Liver Disease a blogsite for Sheldon Josh Earl Medina, born October 8, 2007, was born with a rare liver disease, Biliary Atresia, wherein the liver does not have ducts. As a result, bile is trapped in the liver, damaging it and scarring the liver cells. Biliary atresia is the single, most-common reason for liver transplant in children. The liver soon becomes cirrhotic and eventually malfunctions completely, normally within one year of birth, which will lead to the death of the patient. When the liver becomes cirrhotic, there is no other recourse but a liver transplant, if the patient is to survive.

Sheldon needs a liver transplant that would cost about Php 3 to 5 million. According to Sheldon’s father, they are now mobilizing the whole family, friends and relatives to help raise the fund for the operation since their family was financially distressed and exhausted from almost monthly hospital confinement of their son. They are also trying to raise fund for the operation from the charitable institutions and foundations they appealed for financial help.

Ensuring your website is ready for Internet Explorer 8

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Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default.  Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability allows us to help web developers and designers drive toward the ideal of “write once, run anywhere”, freeing up more time to innovate rather than modify content for different browsers.  This commitment also addresses several development and design pain points from previous Internet Explorer releases.

However, browsing with this default setting may cause content written for previous versions of Internet Explorer to display differently than intended.  This creates a call to action for site owners to ensure their content will continue to display seamlessly in Internet Explorer 8.  As such, we have provided a meta-tag usable on a per-page or per-site level to maintain backwards compatibility with Internet Explorer 7.  Adding this tag instructs Internet Explorer 8 to render content like it did in Internet Explorer 7, without requiring any additional changes.

We are encouraging site administrators to get their sites ready now for broad adoption of Internet Explorer 8, as there will be a beta release in the third quarter of this year targeted for all consumers.  To learn more and get started, please follow the step-by-step instructions located at the following link:  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120024 .

Additional Resources

The following links provide additional information you may find useful:

·         Internet Explorer 8 main site:  http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie8

·         Internet Explorer Team Blog:  http://blogs.msdn.com/ie

·         Internet Explorer Developer Center:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/default.aspx

·         Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit (for web designers and developers): http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/default.htm

·         Microsoft Interoperability Principles:  http://www.microsoft.com/interop/principles/default.mspx