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Backup and Recovery cookbook with Acronis and Microsoft
Doing some research and going through my del.icio.us links I hit the blog of Virtual PC Guy from MSDN. He had a web link to one of the latest cookbooks "Deployment Cookbook: Backup and Recovery with Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 and Acronis® True Image 9.1 Enterprise Edition" Spending 30 minutes to read this document is worth the time to see how things work with Acronis True... -
Rode X/kruis op je harde schijf Windows Verkenner
Ben je ook een slachtoffer van een virus/trojan of een adware programma en heb je een rode kruis wanneer je Deze Computer of Windows Verkenner opstart? Waarschijnlijk is je computer heel traag wanneer je verbinding maakt met het internet en allerelei pagina’s gaan open wanneer je Internet Explorer opstart. Wanneer je binnen Register-Editor (de windows xp configuratie database) de instelling opzoekt dan zie je hetvolgende. Ga naar Start;Uitvoeren en type... -
NTP and network protocol analyzer session
After I reconfigured my Windows Time Service I download and installed WireShark network protocol analyzer tool. I start capturing all traffic on my physical Ethernet interface for more than 12 hours. I was wondering what kind of traffic was generated by my windows client after I configured the NTP server pointing to time.windows.com. I stopped the capture and ended with a 200MB file. WireShark is the newest version of the... -
Verify your Windows Time service
When I verify my time difference between my local system and the time.windows.com NTP server I see I have 11 seconds difference. Execute the following commands to check your local time service. Open a command prompt Type w32tm /stripchart /computer:time.windows.com /samples:5 /dataonly I trust Microsoft that they are well maintaining their time infrastructure, but still I performed two additional checks to nist.gov servers. w32tm /stripchart /computer:time.nist.gov /samples:5 /dataonly w32tm /stripchart... -
Active Directory: DCpromo answer file
The following example demonstrates how to provision an Active Directory domain from an answer file. The installation of domain and domain controller role can be controlled from script and reproduced. This script has been generated for a Windows Server 2003. How to create answer file from DCPromo.exe? Copy the text below and create new text file named ad.txt. AdministratorPassword =P@SSWORD1 CreateOrJoin = Create DomainNetBiosName = 70-296 NewDomainDNSName = 70-296.net... -
VMWare Server: 511 vmware-serverd service is not running.
At some point my Windows based VMWare Server server run out of disk space where couple of important production virtual machines were running. Windows started to complain about low disk space and I had only 32KB space left. I tried to open VMWare Server console and I got the error message below “511 vmware-serverd service is not running.” All virtual machines were running except the one which consumed the remaining... -
Windows Vista SP1 is out
I have been waiting for a while to get the Windows Vista SP1 RTM version of ISO. Last night I download the 3GB file and 30 minutes ago the latest version of Windows Vista SP1 has been installed into a vm image of VMWare Workstation. Lately I am preparing my self for cross virtualization products lab environments and from now I am creating a Acronis True Image tib archive before... -
Openfiler service fails to start
At some point my lab Openfiler was assigned static ip address and the iSCSI target stopped to function; also it was not reachable by the web interface at tcp port id 446 anymore. Several reboots did not help to solve the problem. What happened? The network interface configuration was changed. One of the eth config files was changed from DHCP to a static ip address. vi /etc/sysconfig/network # cat... -
VMware Converter 3.0.2 Update 1
The latest version for VMWare Converter has been out since 3rd of December last year and doing the p2v migration yesterday it helped me to quickly decide how to proceed. The scheduled p2v migration took me very long and I decided to use my evaluation cd of Acronis True Image Server. After six and half hours I copied less than of 20GB of the physical server with VMWare Converter. New... -
Bill Clinton Presidential Library The Technology Revolution quote
Today with my colleague we did some site seeing in Little Rock, AR US and we started our day by going to the William J Clinton Presidential Library. The library presented the 8 years or Mr. Bill Clinton and his achievements during his presidency; I personally enjoyed the tour. We had bad weather this afternoon and it was a good choice to visit while staying in Little Rock. At...
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