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Determine Windows Channel (Retail or OEM or Volume)
Date October 8, 2012 Author By kadmin Category VMware, Windows Server 2003
Issue: You want to P2V a Windows machine but you want to avoid activation issues. With OEM and retail licenses the P2V conversion will result in reactivating the Windows installation because of the new virtual hardware. Since the virtual hardware does not comply to the OEM license, the activation will fail. Solution: 1 – Make […]
Read MoreDate September 17, 2012 Author By kadmin Category Microsoft Exchange
Problem: You want to set up the ability to Send As a distribution group or as another user on your Office 365 account. Solution: You must use the Power Shell. Here are the steps. 1. Start->type PowerShell in the search box -> right-click it in the list and choose Run As Administrator 2. Type in […]
Read MoreDate September 10, 2012 Author By poster Category Windows 7
Problem: You need to enable remote desktop on a Windows 7 machine. You are not in the same building as the machine. Solution: Assuming you have admin rights on the machine… download Service Manager by Martin Fuchs to remotely turn on the remote registry service Start regedit on your machine. Click File, join network registry, […]
Read MoreDate July 30, 2012 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Scenario: You have a printer attached to a Windows XP machine. It is shared. You browse to \computernameprintername from your Windows 7 machine to connect the printer Windows 7 complains that it can’t find the driver and won’t accept any driver you give it (or it is an old printer with no downloadable win7 driver). […]
Read MoreDate July 8, 2012 Author By kadmin Category VMware
Scenario: Backing up VMware ESXi virtual machines. In this case, using Acronis VMprotect 7. This issue is also seen with other backup software. Problem: Backup job fails with this error message: Message: Awaiting task ‘CreateSnapshot’ has failed. Reason: File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore ‘. ——————–‘. Full error Log: Task ‘fileserver […]
Read MoreDate May 21, 2012 Author By kadmin Category VMware
Original Post is here. Re-posted here for my own convenience. Turning off SSL inscreased my transfer speed from 4Mbps to 22 Mbps. ——————————————————————————————– If you haven’t checked out VMware Converter 5 yet, you should. There are a lot of really nice enhancements, the two big ones being vSphere 5 support and automatic partition alignment (which […]
Read MoreDate February 21, 2012 Author By kadmin Category General
Problem: A virus attack has hidden all of the files on your hard drive and removed all of the programs from your start menu. Solution: Unhide your files (follow the link). Check your temp folder for the contents of your start menu as it was likely moved there. Below are the folders found under %Temp%smtmp […]
Read MoreDate November 26, 2011 Author By kadmin Category VMware
When setting up a VMware ESXi server it helps to configure the NTP server so the server will keep the correct time and pass it on to the virtual machines. time-c.nist.gov 0.us.pool.ntp.org 1.us.pool.ntp.org 2.us.pool.ntp.org 3.us.pool.ntp.org
Read MoreDate October 26, 2011 Author By kadmin Category General
Problem: Your Mac Mail is corrupted and not working properly. It hangs when checking for new mail and the wheel just spins forever. It also hangs when trying to close the program and you must Force Quit every time. Solution: Reset everything. Make sure to back up your emails first. Quit Mail and delete: the […]
Read MoreDate September 5, 2011 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7
You are probably well familiar with the location of the Run key from prior versions of Windows but Windows 7 64 bit brings a new location to check when cleaning up the programs that run on start up.
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