‘Microsoft’

• Implementing a Multi-Node Hypervisor Cluster on a Single Desktop Running VMware Workstation 8

  Posted Oct 8 2011 by Dane Young with 6 Comments

  As a field consultant for the last several years, I have been amazed at the numerous deployment scenarios that can be reproduced utilizing just one piece of physical hardware. Due to increasingly expensive electrical bills I trimmed down my server class lab hardware nearly a …

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• Script: Create a list of Windows Updates installed

  Posted Sep 8 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 2 Comments

  I was troubleshooting some issues and I needed a way to collect an overview of Windows Updates installed on a couple of machines and after some digging around I found the following command line: gwmi Win32_QuickFixEngineering | select Description, Hotfixid But because I had to …

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• RES Automation Manager: Add fonts on Windows Server 2008 R2

  Posted Aug 24 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Today while working on an unattended installation for a Citrix XenApp 6 on Windows Server 2008 R2 installation the customer asked me to add some fonts to the default installation. After some searching I found a VBS script that could do this, I had to …

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• RES Automation Manager: Time sync issues

  Posted Aug 24 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 2 Comments

  One of my customers had some time sync issues, we’ve build a new domain based on Windows 2008 R2 and all the DC’s in the new domain where configured with the core switch(es) as NTP server and the time on these switches where right. So …

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• Change Windows Server from Standard to Enterprise Edition

  Posted Jul 22 2011 by Scott Cochran with 1 Comment

  Recently a client asked why their virtual SQL Server was only seeing 4 vCPU’s out of the 8 vCPU’s assigned to the virtual machine. After verifying the server was licensed with Windows Server Standard edition I explained the Standard edition limitations. Microsoft restricts Windows Server …

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