While performing some tasks at a client’s office for their directory summer maintenance, I ran into a problem I haven’t encountered for quite some time and figured I blog about it this time. Scenario: – Windows Server 2003 is being used – 4 domain controllers
I was at a client’s office early this week to migrate a department to OCS moving them off of a BCM 400. The client’s a law firm and wanted to set up a call tree allow inquires to the “Personal Injury” department to flow through
I ran into an interesting problem the other day while at a client’s office when I asked one of the IT managers about problems he has had with OCS 2007 R2. One of the features I’ve always liked was the Outlook contact integration with the
I’ve been trying to troubleshoot an ongoing issue at a client’s office when they try to execute “galgrammargenerator.exe -u” and it would not successfully complete. I will post more information on that when I get it resolved but while working with a Microsoft engineer, I
As mentioned in the previous post (https://blog.terenceluk.com/2010/07/vcenter-virtual-center-service-fails-to.html), if you install a SQL instance onto the same server as VirtualCenter / vCenter, sometimes the SQL database does not start and load the vCenter database fast enough before vCenter attempts to start. One of the ways to
After having all the issues with distributed network switches and Nexus 1000v switches and vCenter / Virtual Center’s database on a SQL instance that’s on a different server, I decided to recommend to the client that we proceed with installing SQL onto the vCenter server’s
I came across an interesting question from a client a few months ago. The client was a small 100 user law firm that needed to mimic what their Nortel BCM 400 was able to do and that was to create a general voice mailbox. His
I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved with a project for a law firm to deploy 10 ESX hosts at 2 co-located / geographically dispersed site for DR (disaster recovery). Other than all the other technologies I got to worth with: EMC, VMware SRM, vSphere,
One of the emails I sent out after completing my first firmware update: Some other notes worth mentioning during the firmware update: Updating Passive Fabric As per the document with instructions on how to update the firmware step-by-step: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/upgrading/from1.1.1/to1.2.1/UpgradingCiscoUCSFrom1.1.1To1.2.1_chapter4.html While performing the following step: Activating
Here’s an internal email I sent out to our UCS guys when I completed my first firmware update from 1.1(1l) to 1.2(1d): I just wanted to give you a heads up that I had a lot of issues with having UCSM download an updated firmware
