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Why VMware is better than Xen or Microsoft

3 years ago

by jayb

When Microsoft and Citrix come sniffing around your virtual infrastructure here’s some information you can give them. So at some point your going to have to explain why VMware is better than Xen or Microsoft. You gonna need something clear, concise and to the point. You could do no wrong by have a [...]

Free Tools That Should Be In Every VMware Administrator’s Toolkit

3 years ago

by jayb

I’ve only used items 1 and 2, looks like I have some tools to download. First I have to finish upgrading the other 3 esx servers to 3.5 3rd party tools are a great way to make up for missing functionality in the vendor supplied management software. Administrators, developers and vendors are [...]

Automatic creation of user folders for home, roaming profile and redirected folders.

3 years ago

by jayb

Here is great step-by-step instructions on creation of Home, roaming profiles, and redirected folders. I need to review this and see what impact it would have if these locations are over the WAN. I’d also like the redirected ‘My Documents’ to be the same place as the home drive. Then I need to [...]

Be careful when using the delete all with snaps

3 years ago

by jayb

Yellow Bricks has a good little write up about problems you could run into if you use a lot of snaps then delete all snapshots. Make sure you have a lot of extra disk space when you do it. Delete all snapshots » Yellow Bricks later,jb [tags]vmware, snaps[/tags] Technorati Tags: vmware

Watch for this delegates issue when migrating to exchange 2007

3 years ago

by jayb

I wonder if this holds true if it is a cross forest migration…..Or if you use the Quest Exchange migration tools… In the field we experienced some problems with delegates after removing the last 2003 exchange server from the domain. If the client software is older (2000 or 2003) then Outlook 2007 [...]

Virtual Center 2.5 Its Time

3 years ago

by jayb

I’m ready to start planning my upgrade to virtual center 2.5. I’m looking through old post on this site and searching other vmware blogs to make sure I have all my bases covered. I’m going to start collecting all the links and post I find right here. So if you have any to add that I missed. Please [...]

Active Directory Health Checks

3 years ago

by jayb

We plan on having an outside company come in and do a AD/Exchange health check before we work on our domain migration project. This article will give me a head start on all of this. Health Checks on Domain Controllers I get asked over and over about what I do when I’m performing a health check on [...]

Customization fails after VC 2.5 Upgrade

3 years ago

by jayb

I’m going to upgrade my Virtual Center next week, this is a really good tip to keep handy. A few people have notice that since upgrading to Virtualcenter 2.5 deploying a Windows 2003 VM from template no longer gives them the ability to customize. The option is disabled. The fix for this is simple. [...]

Two ways to set the time to the PDC emulator

3 years ago

by jayb

Using w32tm: To sync time: Go to the PDC emulator role for the forest, open a cmd prompt and type w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:peers /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update where peers are the IP address of time servers. If you have time servers for other network equipment use those. Then [...]

Microsoft Launches SharePoint Planning Services

3 years ago

by jayb

We been talking about sharepoint since late last year. Looks like Microsoft now throws in free help with deployment if you get SA….Interesting… Microsoft SharePoint Deployment Planning Services Customers using Microsoft‘s SharePoint enterprise portal can now get deployment help if they subscribe to [...]