Plug-ins and Tomcat
I have another post coming up regarding 2rd party plug-ins - explaining a few things I have learned over the past two days - regarding SSL and getting that to work with your properly in the vSphere …
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This is just a small rant on my part, so forgive me if it comes over the wrong way. Carter Shanklin left the PowerCLI team about at the end of April 2010. For those of you who do not know, Carter was …
Updating pictures for Users in AD - pt. 2
The last sentence in my previous post on Updating Pictures for Users in AD was: Now the only part hat needs to be taken care of - is getting a proper image from HR in the correct size. Maybe we will …
Be Careful of the 9th Host in the Cluster
I was looking yesterday at post from Matt McSpirit regarding the Cluster Limits of Hyper-V. I started to look at how this would compare to vSphere. I do not want to go into who can cram more …
Get-AllDomainControllers Function
Sometimes you would like to run a query against all DC’s in your forest. For example today – I was looking a specific error on the System Event Logs. Here is a quick way to get all the DC’s in …
Benchmarking your Disk I/O
How fast is your storage? How do you even check what kind of throughput you are getting? That is a question that comes up often enough, when performing benchmarks. I actually dealt with such a case …
Virtualization Domain Controllers - #2
I received a number of comments on my previous post and offline as well I want to clear up some things regarding the previous post. I am not against virtualizing domain controllers - not at all. I am …
Updating Pictures for Users in AD
I came across a nice article last week regarding pictures for User accounts in an Active Directory environment First let describe the issue at hand. Every now and again, my manager gets an email …
VMworld Sessions - Close but no Cigar!
After waiting most the day, and seeing a number of people on Twitter who announced that they had sessions that were accepted, I was waiting for an email - and yes, lo and behold - it arrived this …
Virtualizing Domain Controllers
One of the frequent questions that come up on the forums is, “How do I convert (P2V) my Windows Domain Controller (or SBS Server)?” Let me first start with the following statement. …