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 …
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Subscribe via RSS →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. …
New Updates of VMware Products
As Always, Test Before you deploy!!! VMware Data Recovery 1.2 Available. Release Notes - Download Link - Admin Guide Here are some highlights of the new release: a file level restore client for Linux …
VMware Tools Icon Changed – Did you notice?
While installing VMware tools on a virtual machine this week on VMware Workstation 7.1 (build-261024) I noticed that the small icon that appears to show that VMware tools are installed looked …