this is the first time i’ve had to struggle with setting up google voice as my primary voicemail provider (that i can recall). it’s not a difficult process on the galaxy s3, but it’s rather confusing if you don’t know what the process is. first thing you need to do is contact tmobile and have […]
i didn’t find the uninstall/change option in Programs and Features to be very useful for determining which SQL server components are actually installed. this method also requires access to the original installation media. a quicker method is to go to: …Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log and finding the Summary.txt file(s). here’s an example of the […]
both of these components can be installed on a windows vcenter server from the vcenter install media. they come natively on the VCSA (vcenter server appliance). of course, it’s necessary to point the ESXi hosts to these new collector locations. details below: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/07/setting-up-the-esxi-syslog-collector.html http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/07/setting-up-the-esxi-50-dump-collector.html update 9/27/2013: quick commands to set the syslog collector… esxcli system […]
FLEXlm licensing managers have been a pain for me for years and it seems that every network-licensed application uses it now. usually it’s no problem if you just install FLEXlm for one product, but as you co-locate various products that use FLEXlm it can lead to issues. overall, it’s not that difficult to fix if you stop […]
you need to install a new vMA virtual appliance for 5.1 (a 4.x appliance can not be upgraded to 5.1). vMA 5.1 is backwards compatible with 4.1 hosts. on initial power-on of the new appliance i received an error similar to “…network has no associated network protocol profile”. evidently, the new appliance is configured as […]
i’m not sure if this has always been the behavior, but this is how things currently function in our environment. user’s AD account disabled: can still use OWA can not login to endpoints/access AD resources user’s AD account expired: can still use OWA can not login to endpoints/access AD resources exchange mailbox disabled: cannot access […]
i upgraded vcenter 4.1 to 5.1 a few nights ago. the whole process took about 3.5 hours for me because of a couple of hiccups during the install and an unexpected surprise after the install finished. i did all of the SSO database prep work previously so i didn’t have to deal with that at […]
i’ve been reading over the docs for upgrading to vcenter 5.1 the only gotcha i’ve come across is the manual setting up of the SSO (single sign-on) database and users. you would only do this if you were using a database other than sql express (which i imagine everyone does, at least in production). anyways, […]
here’s another procedure that doesn’t come up too often…raising the AD functional levels. to check the current forest and domain functional levels go to AD Domains and Trusts and then right-click on the domain name and choose properties. both functional levels should be listed. raise domain functional level: right-click the domain name and choose “Raise […]
i’ve personally only had to go through the adprep process once in 2009 (so far). i figured it would be good to notate the process for future reference though. it came up again recently for a different AD domain… for introducing a windows 2008 DC: run the following from the windows 2008 install media on […]