KB 320185 How to put a Terminal Services server in Install mode. You will need to switch to install mode, to install or remove programs on a terminal server. The method…
Trouble shooting a Disconnected Host in VMware vCenter
When your ESXi hosts are all setup up in vCenter and using HA and DRS but a blip happens, the power goes or a host has a moment "not responding". In this …
Trouble shooting VMware Virtual Center failing to start
We restarted the Virtual Center server during a routine maintenance window. As a rough / quick test we then tried to connect via the client. To our shock, it didn't connect…
For Loop command to list users with sessions on servers
Problem : Users/Admins disconnect from sessions on servers. How to get a list of users logged on to server active and disconnected Simple Solution! Create a file call servers.txt -…
Disable inactive computers in AD
I would be tempted to run it manually in two parts.. that sounds a little cautious I know.. From your DC you can run CMD ( as admin ) dsquery…
Veeam Backup & Replication example
In this example we have VMware vSphere and Hyper-V in Veeam Backup & Replication. In vCenter we can see two data center and the VMs running. In Microsoft Hyper-V we…
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft® Active Directory®
"Easy, fast, granular recovery of individual AD objects and entire containers. And it’s absolutely FREE!" Veeam Veeam Explorer is a part of Veeam Backup™ Free Edition Veeam Explorer "With…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – PoC
Created an account - http://aws.amazon.com/ Setup a Windows 10 client Installed using the download 3.4.3 x86 msi and ticked install paths. Tried x64 installed and had a few errors trying 3.5 version The EB …
AWSome Day event in Manchester
Notes based on Amazon AWS - AWSome Day event in Manchester These are unverified notes taken at the event. Detail may be incorrect, but hopefully provide a rough guide to…
PowerActions for vSphere Web Client
PowerActions 1.5.0 is now available for vSphere 6.0 Web Client http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2015/06/good-news-poweractions-now-available-vsphere-6-0-web-client.html "PowerActions integrates the vSphere Web Client and PowerCLI to provide complex automation solutions from within the standard vSphere management…