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Last week I showed you a script that I wrote to create a mass amount of databases and database copies on an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG). Since that script was a work in progress, I needed to test it again. This meant I needed to get rid of most of the databases it…
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Microsoft has made quite a few changes to the Task Manager for Windows 8. In a very detailed post on the MSDN Blogs, Microsoft goes over a little bit of the history of the Task Manager, from the "Task List" in Windows 3.0, to the new Task Manager in Windows 8. There's plenty of screen…
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A few weeks ago, I showed you my solution to creating a mass amount of disks with PowerShell and diskpart, for future use as Exchange 2010 database and log drives. I finally had time to go back and create the databases for this environment. In this environment, I had 4 Exchange 2010 servers with the…
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I had an interesting request at work today. Management wanted all employees with a company issued cell phone, to have that cell phone number show up in the "Mobile" field of the "Phone/Notes" tab in Outlook. Due to international legal concerns, it was only to be employees in the US. Obviously this information is stored…
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Although no official press release has been made yet, Citrix released XenServer 6.0 today. There are quite a few new features, including GPU pass-through, support for Microsoft SCVMM and SCOM, support for new operating systems, and much more. You can download XenServer 6.0 here, or read the release notes here, or read the new documentation…
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Microsoft released Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 today. Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27552 Read about what issues are resolved in this update here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2602324 See the original announcement on The Exchange Team Blog here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/09/22/released-update-r… At less than 55MB, it is a rather small update rollup.
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Installing FreeNAS to a USB key is the preferred method when setting up a FreeNAS system. The installer even makes a point of telling you this. Booting from a USB key is becoming quite popular. In fact, many modern servers come with an internal USB port, designed specifically for plugging a USB key containing an…
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I know what you're thinking, it's 2011, Windows Server 2008 R2 has been out for years, why are you writing tutorials for Windows Server 2003? Well many organizations still use it. While you may not create a brand new Forest or Domain for use in a production environment, you may find yourself in need of…
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Installing an Operating System (O/S) can take hours. Good thing when it comes to deploying Virtual Machines (VMs), you really only need to do this once. So for the final installment of the "Budget Laboratory" series, I'm going to show you how to create a VM for use as an O/S template, using the vSphere…
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Before VMware released version 8 of their popular Workstation software, it was not possible to run 64-bit guest operating systems (O/S) from an ESXi 4.1 or vSphere 5 guest. This nested Virtual Machine (VM) setup is great for learning and test lab environments, but up until now you were limited to 32-bit guest O/S's. Workstation 8…