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New Screencasts of Hyper-V and VirtualPC2007
Check out my screencasts here. No tutorials or additional information but enough to get a feeling and maybe check out the features yourself. Hyper-V Role Installation Hyper-V New Virtual Machine Hyper-V Virtual Network Switch VLAN Hyper-V Virtual Machine Connection and Copy Paste fun with Windows Server serial number VirtualPC 2007 Installation VirtualPC 2007 CactiEZ.v0.3 Installation -
VMWare Player cmd startup script
Did you ever tried to automate the process of having a script or shortcut to automatically start a virtual guest with VMWare Player? After you login you can start VMWare Player and locate the virtual machine or click the recent one but still you need to control this process. Maybe you want to start the virtual machine at system startup with Scheduled Tasks or instruct a user to click on... -
Software Virtualization Trinket v1.0.0.11
The Software Virtualization Trinket (heretofore known as "Trinket") is a utility that resides in the Windows system tray and allows users to perform a number of SVS tasks. To download the latest version go to here; this is a MSI installation. I already put this tool into a SVS layer and can be download from here. -
CactiEZ 0.30 Device Tracking Management error save failed
After installing CactiEZ 0.30 and you start using the Device Tracking Management (MacTrack plugin) area you may receive the following error when creating new site or device. Error: save Failed. This error is being generated by the Cacti system because there are no tables in the Cacti database. Login on the console or with a ssh shell and execute the following commands cd /var/www/html/plugins/mactrack php database_upgrade.php I have couple... -
CactiEZ 0.3 download and install tutorial VMWare Workstation
In this tutorial I am going to show you how easy it is to install CactiEZ appliance and run this as a virtual guest appliance in VMWare Workstation. After the installation the virtual guest is portable and can be moved to a VMWare Server installation. Note from http://cactiusers.org what CactiEZ appliance is. If you never heard or used this open source monitoring tool than now it is the time to... -
How to backup or export a WSUS 3.0 database?
Go here and download sqlncli.msi + SQLServer2005_SQLCMD.msi package (Microsoft SQL Server Native Client & Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Command Line Query Utility). Install these two msi files on the WSUS server. Start a CMD command shell and run the sqlcmd with the following options. Now you are connected to the “Windows Internal Database” based on SQL Server Express 2005 edition. This sql engine is used by the WSUS 3 sever and some other Windows... -
IIS Config Errors and EventID 4275 Exchange 2003 Cluster
For weeks my Exchange 2003 cluster was down. The mail cluster was configured in a active passive configuration and a single server has been up for months. Second virtual machine node was shutdown to save resources. At some point I was not able to reach my Exchange 2003 mailbox and I started to review the Event Viewer and Services on the active server node. System logs contained around one hundred... -
How to shrink the SMS_SITENAME database SMS 2003?
The SMS 2003 infrastructure I am managing has one singe SMS database which became 4 GB. 1GB data and 3GB log. Today I planned the database maintenance and managed to shrink the files with 3GB. Open the Enterprise Manager or Microsoft SQL Server Management tools and make sure the database option is set to Auto Shrink = Auto (enhancement for the future). Run the following sql script: USE GO... -
Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Server Setup wizard (SCVMM)
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is out for a while and I have been testing this product for two months now. If you manually install SCVMM 2007 than Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Server Setup wizard may stop just before the installation is finished. I have also seen errors within the available SCVMM 2007VHD appliance from Microsoft’s website. Jobs are failing and Manager complaining about network paths incorrect. Main reason... -
VMWare tools tracking mouse issue
New tutorial has been published explaining the strange behavior of the VMWare tools mouse driver. Example screenshot https://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/published/vmware-tools-mouse-tracking-after-upgrade
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