VMware opened the registration for VMworld 2010. More Labs - Self Paced All Labs are self-paced so you have more freedom and options to choose from. No Session Registration No need to pre-register this year. You’ll have ample opportunity to attend the sessions of your choice as each one will be repeated at least …

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[On a Virtual Center 4 update 1 installation I [noticed]{style="border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc;"} an Perf Charts service error on the performance overview tab. The advanced performance tab is functioning as normal.]{style="font-family:sans-serif;"} [ ]{style="font-family:sans-serif;"} …

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Last I encountered some errors while doing a storage VMotion for a couple of VMs during a migration from ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.1. {width="600” height="40”} When looking in the logs for the CBTMotion errors I found following messages. CBTMotion: scsi0:1: Clone: failed to start block tracking …

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I just came across a post by Jonathan Meddover at simple-talk.com about the new Active Directory recycle bin in Windows Server 2008 R2. It’s definitely worth the read.

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Jon Hall confirmed the names of the new vSphere certifications which will be released somewhere in May. VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Enterprise Admin VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Design In order to become VCAP you need to be VCP 4 and then take an additional exam. The Enterprise Admin 4 exam …

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I needed to add a group of users to the ACL of all our printers. As we currently have about 100 printers; I looked if I could use powershell for this. Currently on Windows server 2008 there are no built in cmdlets to administrate printers. But I did find a useful powershell script with everything I needed. I ended up …

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On our teminal server 2008 farm we had some serious problems the last couple of days. Whenever users tried to login they got a “Access Denied” error. Only administrator accounts were able to log in. Additionally the eventlog, the McAfee services and some other services weren’t started automatically. …

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One of my colleagues gave me a list of AD groups for the sharepoint environment he’s confguring. Instead of creating them manually I used the Quest ActiveRoles management shell. 1import-csv 'SecurityGroups.csv' | foreach { 2New-QADGroup -Parent \$\_.ParentContainer -Name \$\_.Name -sAM 3\$\_.Name …

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Recently I needed to create tens of DNS records. This little script automates the creation of DNS records. The scripts reads a csv file which contains the hostname and the according IP address. This information is used to launch dnscmd which creates the DNS records in the supplied DNS zone. 1 2$DnsServer = …

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Carter Shanklin announced the winners of the contest. 1st prize: The guest provisioning system of LucD. This application lets you provision your VMs in an easy way. You can set the options from one screen no clicking around to configure everything manually. 2nd prize: VI Power Documenter by tzamora. This script …

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