Solarwinds has an Application Monitoring Template for Domain Controllers.The permission usually recommended is to give the account Local Administrator on the computer , however on a domain […]
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IIS Performance Counter – Total Locked Errors – How to detect locked files
We had some alerts coming up for an IIS site in Solarwinds which read the value for this Win32_PerfFormattedData_W3SVC_WebService(SITECODE)\TotalLockedErrors And alerted us when above 0. This is […]
Vmware Site Recovery Manager with NetApp Snapmirror
When using Netapp Snap Mirror to clone Volumes to another site / netapp containing Datastores , you can back this up with Vmware’s Site Recovery Manager to […]
VAMT encountered an unkown error – Volume Activation Management Tool has encountered an error
When trying to add an activation object ( during activate Forest ) an error is displayed : VAMT encountered an unkown errorThe Forest is Ready , the Schema […]
Scripting DNS Debug Logging dnscmd
To be able to script the DNS Debug Location for multiple severs you need to run the following commanddnscmd <DNS Server Name> /config /logLevel <EventFlagSumInHex>dnscmd <DNS Server Name> /config […]
Gmail/Google Mail Apps being Spammed Book Enteries 100+ Times
Recently I had a user get in contact with a problem, that they had received thousands of emails from different email address’ of nonsense. Sure enough after checking […]
Cheapest Way to buy Cisco UCS Blades
Cisco offer SmartPlay bundles which are preconfigured packages for blades with a certain amount of RAM, CPU, etc. although they can be further customized if you want […]
Amazon Drive – Time before Deleting of your Data
Recently I got an email through from Amazon due to a switched payment method that due to a billing issue I couldn’t upload any new data. Due to […]
How to test chrome on mac osx from windows
I help a few friends with their websites to aid my web programming. It’s a constant battle with Browser Updates and Cross OS browsers not to mention […]
Vmware : Cannot create snapshot. Operation not allowed in current state
Login to the host where the virtual machine lies and try and do a snapshot via here instead of VCentreIf Take Snapshot is greyed out on the […]
Activating Windows 10 – Office 2016 Windows Srv 2012R2 DataCtr/Std KMS for Windows 10
A client recently wanted to Add Windows 10 Activation to his KMS Server , you need this https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3086418Proves you need some Windows Updates as well as a “Windows […]
Get list of Windows Updates needed to be installed on Virtual Machine Enviroment Vmware/ Powershell
Run Vmware PowercliRun Connect-ViServer %name of server%Run the output of below to a text fileE.g. .\Get-PendingUpdate.ps1 | Output-File file.txt