Posts tagged microsoft

VMware now on the SVVP

3 years ago

by jayb

VMware has qualified its industry-leading VMware ESX hypervisor under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP)…http://tinyurl.com/6l6cwh Now you can run any Microsoft enterprise application on vmware ESX and get support from both vmware and Microsoft!! I’m not quite sure what [...]

Utility Spotlight: Windows Memory Diagnostic

3 years ago

by jayb

This is a useful tool to troubleshoot PC freezing and crashes. Suppose one of the PCs you support is acting up—freezing, crashing, blue screening. Is some piece of hardware failing? Is some newly installed application causing trouble? Or could it be faulty memory? One way to find out for sure is [...]

links for 2008-09-01

3 years ago

by jayb

PPCKitchen.org – Home/News (tags: windowsmobile smartphone 6700) PPCGeeks – Powered by vBulletin (tags: windowsmobile smartphone pocketpc) Infrastructure Optimization TechCenter: Documentation, downloads and additional resources Optimization for AD (tags: microsoft)

Delegating Monitoring-Stopping-Starting services on Servers

3 years ago

by jayb

Thank you so much Jorge and the activedir.org mailing list. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get a junior admin access to restart the print spooler on a windows 2003 SP1 box for over a month. Delegating permissions to manage services on servers is not the easiest thing to do. You can do it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]