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Excessive CPU usage on Domain Controllers

Now this has nothing to do with Virtualization, but it is still very handy, so I thought I would share it with you all. Yesterday I started to receive alerts from our monitoring system that our …

  • Microsoft
  • Windows
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
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VMUG Israel March 2009

Today was our Israeli Quarterly VMUG in Tel-Aviv Lead by Ben Hagai. About 75 people there (the group is growing every time) Schedule was: Re-cap from VMWorld in Cannes Cisco Nexus 1000V ESX Storage …

  • VMUG
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
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VNC Built-in Backdoor - Part 2

In continuation of my previous post about this issue with VNC and direct access to a vm through the service console. In my original findings, I stated that this was possible with both ESX3i and ESX …

  • Security
  • ESX3i
  • VMware
  • ESX
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Now how do you like this - Built-in Backdoor

Firstly let’s start with how this came about. I was trying to allow permissions to a user to a certain VM on an ESX3i Server. This is a the free edition. There is no option to allocate …

  • Security
  • Virtualization
  • ESX3i
  • Administration
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Active Directory Health Check

Well I have spent the past two days with a Microsoft PFE (Premier Field Engineer) who has been doing a quick health check for issues in our domain. This does not replace an Active Directory Risk …

  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Windows