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
A colleague of mine recently reached out to me about an issue while installing Windows Server 2012 on a VMware ESXi 5.1 hypervisor where he would receive the following error message: A media driver your
Problem You attempt to add a new Veeam proxy server that is located in your DR site that will be used as a target proxy for replication but receive the following error: [serverName] Failed to
Problem You’ve received a complaint that when a user attempts to log onto their desktop, they immediate get kicked off. Logging onto the desktop with another account appears to be fine and the following errors
Problem You attempt to install SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Tools on a server or desktop: but notice that it fails with the error: Another version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 has been detected on
Problem You’ve received complaints from users that they are unable to successfully launch Citrix XenApp 6.5 published applications because while the Citrix Receiver launches and attempts to connect to the XenApp server, it hangs at
I’ve been asked several times in the past as to whether using the certificate enrolment webpage of a Microsoft Certificate Authority (https://certServerName/certsrv) was the only way to request certificates with SAN entries and the answer
