After realizing that I had to dig deep into my notes and search for registry settings on the web that I’ve used multiple times over the years, I thought I’d write a post to serve
Problem You attempt to create a new XenDesktop 5.6 deployment with SQL Server 2012 as the back end server but receive the following error when configuring the first desktop delivery controller: Cannot write Property Collation.
Problem You’re installing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2012 but notice that the install fails with the error: Error while enabling Windows feature : NetFx3, Error Code : -2146498298 , Please try enabling
I’ve been asked several times recently what the process is to mount a USB drive directly to a virtual machine when one is plugged directly to a host and as easy as it really is,
I recently had to virtualize a few racks of HP DL380 G3 servers which I haven’t had to do for years and remembered how annoying some of the HP applications on these servers can be.
It has probably been 4 or 5 years since I’ve had to P2V old HP DL380 G3 servers with Windows Server 2003 but a recent datacenter virtualization project I’ve been involved in had 2 full
I’m not sure why I haven’t blogged this Robocopy script that I’ve been using over the last 10 years to migrate servers until today when I had trouble finding it because it was in my
A colleague of mine recently called me during a P2V operation using the VMware Standalone Converter on an older Dell Tower with Windows 2003 SBS server. He noticed that the cloning process would briefly start
I recently had to rebuild a failed Exchange 2010 server that was a part of a DAG and while the rebuild went quite smoothly, I had quite a few issues reseeding the database back onto
Problem You attempt to add a newly built Exchange 2010 mailbox server to an existing DAG but receive the following error: [PS] C:Windowssystem32>Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer -Identity DAG-01 -MailboxServer MBX-01WARNING: Network name ‘DAG-01’ is not online. Please check
