Forcing disabled user to logon.
Installing iSCSI MPIO
Configuring iSCSI MPIO
Branch office domain migration
Branch offices are typically a very lean setup, 1 may be 2 servers. The number of users at the location can range anywhere from 5 to 70. If its a single server setup, it poses additional challenges when trying to…
Promoting Domain Controllers.
Dc promo using backup
Replmon and NWlink
NWlink prevents Replmon from working.
Watch your disk size
As hard disk capacity climbs to 1 TB, it is prudent to keep an eye on the disk volume that you create. Windows 2003 has a 2TB limit using Basic disk. If Guid Partition Tables (GPT) are used, the limit…
Share names and scripts.
I was asked to check a problem with a customer’s login script. Seems that some of the shares are not appearing on the user computers. At the user end, browsing to the shares does not reveal a problem with permissions,…
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.
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…