How to Setup VLANs in Basic terms
VLANs or virtual local area networks allow for a wide range of capabilities when it comes to segmented and connecting different segments of network traffic. However, there can be much…
Year: 2011
You Have Been Logged On with a Temporary Profile
We have covered some of the misery that happens with roaming profiles in a previous post. Roaming profiles seem to at best only work “some” of the time and can…
You have a previous version of the Microsoft Exchange Messaging Sevice
Beware of running multiple versions of Outlook in you enterprise Exchange environment especially with roaming profiles. There is a known issue when a user who normally uses Outlook 2007 to…
Moving User Profiles to a new server
If you administer an environment that utilizes server stored profiles or roaming profiles, you probably already know what a nightmare these can be to manage. Many have run into problems…
Linux Network Connection Not Working Virtual Machine ESXi
Recently, in decommissioning an ESX 3.5 Server host, we ran in to a network problem with a few linux VMs residing on that particular host. Since we were not dealing…
Removing Unwanted Entries in Outlook Autocomplete NK2 file
If you have been in an environment that uses Microsoft Outlook you know that Outlook stores addresses that you have typed in the address fields so that you don’t have…
Connectivity and DNS troubleshooting
By far the most prevalent network problem we see in a networked computer environment is either connectivity issues or DNS issues. Usually the two problems are interrelated at some junction. …
Migrating ESX 3.5 servers to ESXi 4.1 update 1
Many VMware admins who administer legacy versions of the VMware ESX family hypervisor are probably starting to look at how they can get to the ESXi family of hypervisor since VMware has…
VMware vMotion problems on ESX 3.5 servers after upgrade to vCenter 4.1
If you have run into a problem with VMware vMotion after upgrading your vCenter server to 4.1, it is most likely due to licensing issues and differences between 3.5 and…
Transferring a FSMO Role using NTDSUTIL
There are a wealth of things you can do with the NTDSUTIL utility and it is one of the most powerful command line utilities a system administrator can have in…