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A client wanted to rename a specific account, but they were afraid to change this specific account because it could be used as a service account for several services running on a number of servers. Because I didn’t want to logon to all those servers manually I decided to create a powershell script. Hereby […]
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A collegae of mine told me about that Packt Publishing is having a 10 years anniversary. Now you can get hold of their IT books for only 10 dollars! Check it out here […]
Today I received confirmation that Veeam’s first conference will be held on October 5th till October 9th for the VMCE course. There will be General Sessions, Technical Breakouts and there will be an Expo Lounge. I’ve heard people talking about the party also 🙂 For more information check out their website : http://go.veeam.com/veeamon#register The price […]
Sometimes you run into a hung VM on XenServer. This is how to kill the VM running on XenServer : First look up the UUID (in my case 50fa073a- etc) Using the command list_domains you can find the id’s (0, 6, 7, 9 etc) Now use the grep command to find the domain ID you […]
After installing (check my post here) it’s now time to check out Veam ONE. There are 3 new icon’s, let’s use the first (Veeam ONE Monitor) Veeam ONE is starting.. When first starting Veeam, you are asked to give you mailserver credentials : Which user is going to get which notification mails? You are given […]
I’m very honored to be awarded vExpert 2014! A vExpert is an active member of the community who impacts his or her knowledge on others. VMware uses the following explanation : “ A vExpert is not a technical certification, VMware selected people who engaged with their community and who had developed a substantial personal platform […]
A collegae asked me if it was possible for end users to change their passwords themself. Ofcourse there are several commerical tools (like manageengine) which allows users to change their passwords but they are not cheap and licensed by the number of end users. (In my case > 2000 users) First I used the IISADMPWD […]
A reader of my blog mentioned that it’s wasn’t possible to backup to a a share while using Windows Server 2008 backup. Indeed, using the GUI it’s not possible but you can use wbadmin to start a backup to a netwerkshare : Use the following command : wbadmin start backup –backuptarget:\\fileserver\share –include:C: –vssfull –quiet. […]
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Sometimes you can’t use Hypervisor backup software, for example when using physical machines (huh?) or Xenserver with unavailable storage for creating snapshots. Ofcourse commercial backup software is nice, but sometimes you don’t want to pay for that (whitebox home environment) or the customer doesn’t have the licenses. Why don’t use software you already own? Let’s […]
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Today a customer requested to upgrade the amount of memory on their XenServers. This is how you easily can determine which memory modules are being used. Ofcourse you can use ILO, but then you only see the size and location but not the specific type of (memory) module : This is how you can identify […]
After my review of Xackup XenServer backup software I received serveral emails and tweets with people asking me if I had ever done a restore test. The answer is : ….. YES! Ofcourse. 🙂 Volledig album bekijken I did several migrations and restores for testing purposes and they all succeedeed. I advise to install […]
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The last couple of days I ran into some problems with restoring VM’s on Xenserver. I started looking for Hypervisor backup software for Xenserver. I took a deep dive into the wonderful world called the Internet and found Xackup from Fungusware. Alright, strange name but let’s take a look at the product itself. I downloaded […]
My experience is, in my whitebox environment to reboot the VMware vCenter virtual appliance from time to time. I used to do this manually but I decided to create a scheduled task. Hey we are IT people right? 🙂 First login to the console with your password (I hope you changed the default root/vmware password […]
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Today a customer complained that Citrix Discovery wasn’t working : I found that there was some inconsistency in the database. I used the command dscheck to check this : I used the command dscheck /clean to fix this unconsistency. After this discovery was possible again. […]
Today a customer ran into a problem with SCCM 2012 R2. Clients didn’t get online and packages didn’t get distributed. After some investigationn I found the following problem internal Server error. As you probably know SCCM 2012 clients use HTTP or HTTPS (internet, PKI) to communicate with the SCCM server. This is how you can […]
While configuring a SCCM 2012 R2 server I noticed some Critical errors in the Site Status. After some investigating I found the problem how to fix this. You must add the SCCM service account and the computer account(s) to the local administrator group of the site server. Go to the local users and groups and […]
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It’s easy to deploy the Microsoft Office Servicepack 2 with SCCM. Download Servicepack 2 (full install) and use the following switches : /quiet /passive /norestart […]
Sometimes you want to immediately deploy (install) a package and you don’t want to wait for the SCCM agent to start the task. They are multiple ways to do this, one of them is to use the tools described in my previous posts. The other way is to go the configuration menu of the client, […]
Yesterday a customer asked me how to manually install the SCCM 2012 client. This is how you do that. Create a network connection to your SCMM Management Point server. For example net use q: \\SCCMSERVER\SMS_SITEIDNR. Go to the client directory and execute the following command : Replace sccm-mp with the name of your SCCM […]
In the past I used the SCCM Client Actions Tools (link) but there is now a new successor called PoshCAT by Kaido Jarvemets. I found this tool so useful I decided to write a blogpost about it. First : you can download the tool here. After starting the Powershell script you notice the following screen […]
