i went through the process of upgrading vcenter operations manager 5.7.x to 5.8.x today. the process is fairly easy, yet also odd, since it’s a 2 part process. first install the vcops pak file by going to https://vcops.mydomain.com/admin -> update tab. after the update finished i was unable to login to vcops until i ran […]
URL to the configuration test page: https://FQDN/testconfig.aspx
using vmkping: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003728
this particular occurrence was on windows 2008 sp2 (32-bit) and very easy to reproduce. every time the system was rebooted the VM would report vmware tools not running and sometimes vmware not running (not installed). RDP sessions would not function. when trying to login to the VM console it would hang on “applying user settings”. […]
fairly painless process to install cyanogenmod 11 steps: heimdall flash –RECOVERY recovery.img –no-reboot boot to recovery wipe & format everything install from sideload adb sideload update.zip <— the d2lte build adb sideload gapps.zip reboot source: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_d2lte http://glassechidna.com.au/heimdall/
examples… =LEFT(H3,FIND(“@”,H3)-1) to retrieve the username portion of an email address (anything before the @) =LOWER(LEFT(B2,6)&LEFT(C2,1)) grab the first 6 characters from cell b2 and concatenate w/ the first character from cell c2. then lowercase. using Data->Filter from within excel is also very useful source: http://chandoo.org/wp/2010/01/19/usernames-from-email-formulas/ removing duplicate rows: do a find and replace and […]
backing up: icacls <directory path> /save ntfsperms.txt /t /c restoring: icacls <drive letter> /restore ntfsperms.txt when a attaching a drive with existing NTFS permissions to a new system the NTFS permissions will be retained. share permissions, however, will not be. share permissions can be exported and imported (details in the source link)…but i don’t find […]
these nexuses are incredibly easy to work with. images here – https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images steps to flash device: sudo apt-get android-tools-fastboot boot into fastboot mode (info here – https://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html#booting-into-fastboot-mode) fastbook oem unlock fastboot format cache fastboot format userdata ./flash-all.sh fastboot oem lock boot normally
audacity can be used to convert a wav file into the proper format. this can be done by going to file->export audio->save as type: other uncompressed files->options… then choosing WAV and U-Law there’s a bit more to it than just uploading the wav file to UCM via Media Resources->MOH Audio File Management. for one, the […]
first step is to set up windows server failover clustering (WSFC) on two or more nodes. the setup is fairly straight forward…install the feature on nodes you want participating in the cluster. shared storage is not actually required for alwayson availability groups, but you may want to configure a file share witness (~512MB) if you […]