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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 […]
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 […]
There are several tools when documenting your installations. Ofcourse you can use tools like Snagit and there are many others. But sometimes you are installing something on a server and you don’t have access to one of those tools. Then you can use the Problem Steps Recoder default build in Windows (Server). Just hit run […]
I recently reinstalled my VMware servers using USB sticks. After the first reboot I noticed an yellow warning. When highlighting the different servers I noticed the “System logs are stored on non-persistent storage” warning. This is how you can fix that : Select a persistent (SAN?) storage that you can use and go to Browse […]
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I use the mailcleaner community version for anti spam/virus. Mailcleaner is an Linux appliance that’s easy to set up and configure. The community version is free of charge and can be used to block spam and viruses before they enter your mailserver (for example my Exchange servers). When you have any questions or want to […]
A customer complained about the following error : The problem is that the list of the Trusted Root Certificates (TRC) is too long. The solution is simple : use microsoft fixit : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2801679 or delete the following key : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\Certificates You don’t have to restart anything afterwards. […]
Many times I’ve ran into the following error : (Error : unsufficient access rights to perform the operation) while moving Lync users of moving mailboxes in Exchange. This is due to the following : Include inheritable permissions MUST BE ENABLED. (Also for other tasks) When this is one or a couple of users this is […]
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Customers are asking me for advice for new Exchange installations and migrations. Until Microsoft releases a rollup (Exchange 2007) or new servicepack (Exchange 2010) it’s not possible to do co-existence migration from 2007/2010 to 2013. My advice is to wait or migrate to 2010. The only solution now is to export/import using a big bang […]
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Today I was testing Outlook with a new Exchange server config and I received the following error : I knew I correctly imported the new SSL certifcate because I tested OWA before Outlook and that was working fine. The solution was simple. You must specify in Exchange which Exchange services (for example SMTP, IIS, POP, […]
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