Archive for February, 2010

Posted on February 9th, 2010 by by Steve

Windows System Properties – Manufacturer

When P2V’ing a server to ESX or vSphere, there is a small list of “clean-up” items that must be done to the new virtual image. I have added an additional item to my list that will modify the custom text and images that computer manufacturers add to the system properties dialogue box. Often when running [...]

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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by by Steve

PsExec (Thanks Google!)

Last week while working on a Domain Controller for a rarely used domain, I ran into a challenging issue. I couldn’t login to the DC! (Thanks MS for not allowing local logins on Domain Controllers)!  RDP responded fine, I could manage it remotely (and this view logs), but could not actually login via RDP or [...]

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Posted on February 6th, 2010 by by Steve

64-bit vCenter install, 32-bit ODBC DSN required!

A few weeks ago I attempted to build out a vCenter instance at an office in Europe, intended to be added to my main vCenter instance as a linked clone. Reading the release docs for vCenter 4.0, it is apparent that future releases of vCenter will not be supported in a 32-bit environment. This led [...]

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