A customer encountered this error message, when he tried to join computer to domain or change the DNS from Primary to AD integrated. Oh did I mention that the 2 out of 3 domain controllers in the domain are offline?
Active Directory Migration Tool
Moving users to a new domain is a real pain. If the computers join a new domain, the users get spiffy new profiles. Their old profiles may not be accessible. That does not make users happy. Another way is to…
About me
I am an IT professional, specializing on Mail systems, mainly Exchange and Lotus Notes. I am also familiar with all versions Microsoft Windows operating systems, SQL 2000 server, ISA 2004 and various brands of firewalls. I have worked 10 years…
New blog
The old blog running MovableType is getting a bit long in the tooth. Publishing a single post means crunching through all my previous posts. Slow but it is getting on my nerves. To that end, from 1 Jan 2009, all…
Guests cannot connect to VMware server host.
This sounds a bit weird. If you have VMware server running on Windows 2003 SP2, you might encounter connection problems from the guest. I have tested using Window shares or UNC paths.
Joining a Linux server to Active Directory domain
A file server running on Linux with Samba is an attractive option to reduce license cost. Samba configuration is easy enough. To get the user permissions right, you will need to join the Linux server to the Active Directory domain.…
Death in the family
This is more of a follow up from the previous post. This post is done retroactively, eg I change the posting date to the time of death.
Remote Access Authentication
Your users want to have VPN access to access stuff on the road. The VPN tunnel stops at the appliance. You loathe creating an access control list just for that box. Not to mention internal audit is going to give…
Forklift upgrade
What happens if you need to upgrade the creaking old server hardware that Exchange is sitting on? Especially if you want to keep the same name to prevent users from going bonkers and yourself from updating all the docs. Read…
VMware Converter 3.0
A customer has a bunch of really old Compaq servers running, you guess it a mission-critical application that nobody knows how to reinstall. So I convinced them to virtualize the machines as a business continuity plan. That way hardware failure…