How to fix the Blue Screen of Death on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 and later OSs. Boot the computer into Recovery console. This can be done with the Windows disk. Restore Registry from a previous backup. You need to find the drive letter that hold the windows directory of your install. Go to that… Read More »
Remove physical Controller from IBM DS3500 SAN Log onto IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager for your DS3500 Enter into you SAN Go To Advanced->Troubleshooting->Prepare for Removal Choose your Enclosure and the Controller. There will be a Green light on an OK when the SAN is ready for you to remove the Interface. Only remove one… Read More »
Install Intel Drivers on ESX 4.x This issue may occur if the drivers for the network controller are not installed. To resolve this issue, download the Driver CD for the network controller and install the drivers. To install drivers for devices as part of a new ESX installation: Place the ESX installation DVD in the… Read More »
Configure QLOGIC Fiber channel cards to boot from SAN QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter Preparation Press CTRL+Q to access the BIOS setup utility (Fast!UTIL) during system boot-up. From the Fast!UTIL Options menu, enable the adapter BIOS by selecting Configuration Settings > Adapter Settings > Host Adapter BIOS. From the Configuration Settings menu, select Selectable Boot Settings… Read More »
Training Resource This is one of my first reviews. I had the chance, thanks to Eric Wright (@discoposse), to try Pluralsight.com for 30 days. I had just reschedule my #VCAP-DCD exam 30 days from that day. I had already gone through Jason Langer’s (@jaslanger) #VCAP-DCD massive collection of documents. A couple day before I had… Read More »
Disable POODLE in IIS In Windows Server 2003 to 2012 R2 the SSL / TLS protocols are controlled by flags in the registry set at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSecurityProvidersSchannelProtocols. To disable SSLv3, which the POODLE vulnerability is concerned with, create a subkey at the above location (if it’s not already present) named SSL 3.0 and, under that, a… Read More »
Updated START-RECOMPOSE.PS1 Script This is for VMware View 5.5 and earlier. This is an updated script from Sean Massey’s blog. You can find it here. I have re-written parts of the script that were failing. I was unable to test the final script. The client decided to upgrade to Horizon View 6 You can download the… Read More »
How to rename a Domain in WIndows 2012 Server In a Windows Server 2012 domain you don’t have to separately install “Rendom” utility. This tools gets installed as part of “Active Directory Domain Services” role when you promote a server to the DC role. It can be found: %windir%system32rendom.exe. The existing domain is D and I will… Read More »
Exchange 2010 – Experiencing an OWA HTTP 500 Error? I came across this error at a client site this morning. You are presented with the login screen. You log in to the OWA site with the required username and password. You are then presented with a “HTTP 500” error. The first thing that comes… Read More »
What is NX and DX? I remember coming across this term when I was studying for my #VCAP-DCD. I was not for sure what is means. So here is the break down: NX/XD is a BIOS setting. NX is the AMD “No Execute” XD is the Intel “Execute Disabled” They mark memory pages as data-only… Read More »