i installed esxi 5.1 on an r620 about an hour ago. i’m positive i knew this prior to the install, but must have forgot at some point. you need to download a dell customized iso of the esxi install from support.dell.com. under the server’s drivers and downloads choose “enterprise solutions”. at first i used a […]
i’ve been collecting useful papercut KB articles for quite a while now. i figured it’d be best to combine them all into one source. also papercut has the best knowledge base that i’ve ever seen. pretty much anything you can think of has been documented already. resetting admin password – http://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/ResettingTheAdminPassword changing databases – http://www.papercut.com/products/ng/manual/ch-ext-db-upsizing.html setting up […]
since upgrading to vcenter 5.1, we’ve encountered an unusual issue with the web client. a vcenter user that has access to inventory and is able to access objects just fine from the vsphere windows client receives the error “client is not authenticated to vmware inventory service” when logging into the vsphere web client. i figured […]
we recently removed the “manage documents” permission for creator owner to prevent bypassing the pay-for-print system. the permission can be removed from each printer or set globally at the print server level. we experienced some oddities of old print jobs printing out last week. this morning i examined the print queues on the windows print […]
i didn’t realize until just now that duck tales was stylized as ducktales (one word). anyways, i used to own ducktales on the NES. the first issue of nintendo power i ever owned was the issue with ducktales on the front cover. that was the september/october 1989 issue. i either had a subscription to nintendo […]
the following article (though somewhat out of date) describes how to set up snmpd on mac os x: http://support.apple.com/kb/ta20884?viewlocale=en_us&locale=en_us bare minimum necessary: /usr/bin/snmpconf -i /usr/sbin/snmpd
apply the following update to allow a windows 2008 r2 server running wsus 3.0 sp2 to provide windows 8 & 2012 updates: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2734608 update 7/23/2014: installing the above update on the server running wsus 3.0 sp2 will resolve windows server 2012 systems receiving error code 800B0001 when checking for updates
this particular event happened in the latter half of 2012…i just wanted to notate it for future reference. a primary DNS server experienced an unrecoverable system failure and was completely down. i wasn’t exactly happy with the situation, but i was not exactly worried either because there was a secondary server running just fine. these […]
a powershell cmdlet is used for installing features in server core now. run powershell then the cmdlet Get-WindowsFeature to get a list of installable/installed features. run Install-WindowsFeature <feature> to install a new feature or role. to remove features use Uninstall-WindowsFeature <feature>. it’s interesting that you can even install the GUI feature-set on top of core […]
if the password is lost to the sample database’s Supervisor account the easiest solution may be to detach the old sample database and reattach a fresh copy from: https://www.blackbaud.com/support/downloads/sample.aspx decline any BBPS options during initial database access. related BB articles: BB66640, BB127066, BB701667 update 4/10/2013: if you rename the sample database to something different the DSN entries on workstations will still point […]