Sysprep and VMware Guest Customization with Terraform
Continuing into my own automation learning objectives this year, I am diving a bit deeper down the Terraform rabbit hole and want to share a few more things learned over…
Tag: Windows
Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3 Released New Features
Just a couple of days ago Veeam announced the official release of Veeam Backup & Replicaton 9.5 Update 3 to everyone after giving it a few weeks with MSPs and…
Map a network drive from remote desktop back to local computer
If you are working a lot with remote desktop sessions especially in lab environments where network segmentation is present, there are often many situations where it is beneficial to have…
Kill a Windows service quick tip
Just a quick tip from the trenches that I have used numerous times over the years to deal with problematic Windows services. Let’s take a look at the “kill a…
Configuring jumbo frames between two servers
In tweaking an AppAssure environment recently, I ran through Dell documentation on performance tweaks that are mentioned to help improve AppAssure backup performance. One of the recommended tweaks for network…
Create a Windows SXS install share
If you find yourself spinning up many Windows Server VMs like I do, you may not want to sit and wait for your Windows Server 2012 R2 VM to download…
Can’t get rid of cached credentials Internet Explorer
The other day I had a colleague call me with a pesky credential issue using Internet Explorer. He was connecting to an internal only web server that uses Windows authentication…
Windows Server 2012 R2 Deduplication Real World Test
Having been running Windows Server 2012 R2 in many environments for quite some time now, I still as of yet haven’t had a real world test of data deduplication to…
Viewing and killing TCP IP connections Windows
Many time in troubleshooting or needing to view network traffic information or connection information, seeing your TCP/IP connections in Windows can provide valuable insight into problems or issues that may be…
AppAssure Network error during transfer of data from volumes
Recently, in working with a development SQL server that had been added to AppAssure, an error was being seen on incremental snapshots after a successful base image. The AppAssure error…