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Manage Google Apps Account using Google-Apps-Manager

Been tasked with managing a Google Apps account for your company only to find that you are being asked to do many things on behalf of your user? Something that would require that you login as the user to make the changes? Well, consider this a problem of the past. I’ve just recently discovered a …

IIS7 and 530 User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible

Like many others (as evidenced by the various posts and searches on this topic), I do this infrequently enough that it has come up and bit me in the a** too many times so hopefully by memorializing my idiocy in blog post form, I will NOT forget this lesson I learned when managing FTP users …

Search Gmail by Date Range

For those of us who live in our Gmail inbox (inside of Google Apps of course) and who have done so for years know that it can be difficult to find a specific email that occurred within a specific time period; especially if it is a commonly occurring word. My frustration at having to page …

Powershell Backup to S3 Script

Have you ever used Powershell? Well, neither have I. Until recently I’d been happily scripting my server maintenance routines in batch files (I know, I know) but figured when one of our dev servers turned out to need to be a Windows Server 2012, I found that my tried and true batch files would need …

Add Google+ Comments to a WordPress Blog

Recently, the Google Operating System posted instructions on how to Add Google+ Comments to Any Website. Well, I tried it right off the bat on a WodPress site will no luck. Took some hacking around but I finally found a good way to make this work in a WordPress theme where it was OUTSIDE the …

Does Content Creation Increase Search Engine Visibility?

The folks at Brafton.com seem to think so and have created a killer infographic on why you should expand your production of quality content in order to grow your organic traffic to your website. Remember, while social media is content, your content should be leverage in social media also so don’t just rely on tweets; …