ESX Starter Edition is a standalone ESX server (i.e. no Virtual Centre), available at a lower cost than the ESX Infrastructure editions but missing some useful functions. Some of those functions are the ability to convert virtual machines to templates simply by right-clicking on them, and deploying VM templates with a single mouse click. With [...]
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Cheating with ESX Server Starter Edition
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Vista backup is stupid.
I've been trying to get Vista to backup files to another computer on the network, and it's just not having it. The remote machine is a Linux computer on the network. If I click open the Vista menu, and then type \\servername\backups, it opens straight away and I can drop files in there and do [...]
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Script to remotely backup multiple IIS metabases
This is a script to backup IIS metabases to a network share. To run this script you need to create a file called iisservers.txt in the script's working directory and add the names of the IIS servers into it, one on each line. Substitute servername and sharename with the destination on your network. The forfiles [...]
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How to repair a trashed IP stack on Windows 2003
Last week I had a BSOD error on one of my MailSweeper servers. Afterwards when it booted into Windows it had disconnected itself from the network and the IPSec service would not start. I'm sure they were having a good laugh at Microsoft when they decided how to word this error message: What failed? The [...]
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Things that MIMESweeper can’t do
Question: What happens when a user sends a 1Mb e-mail to 2000 external recipients, and also requests delivery receipts? Answer: MailSweeper delivery service will die and mail will start to queue on your server. Messages will build up in the 'domains' folders and in 'holding' as your the policy server becomes unable to deliver any [...]
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Upgrade ESX from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1
There seems to be some debate on whether in-place upgrades of ESX server are a good idea, or whether it's better to abandon old versions and go for clean installs. My opinion is that if your server is healthy and you don't have any issues or problems, then there's no need to be scared about [...]
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Patch ESX Server, the easy way
I've discovered a really great tool for patching ESX servers from Windows: VMTS Patch Manager. It's a bit like WSUS in that all patches are downloaded once to a central repository and you select what you want pushed out from there. You don't need to log on to any ESX servers or spend any time [...]
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Extending virtual disks in ESX Server 3.01
Below is the procedure on how to extend the disk of a Windows 2003 virtual server. Before starting please note the following: Microsoft's diskpart utility can only be used to extend dynamic disks. Before using this utility you will need to convert your disks to dynamic using the Disk Management utility in the Computer Management [...]
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Implement an Exchange 2003 front end NLB cluster
There are a few sites that explain how to implement this high availability solution: http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/origi... http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Imp... However when I tried this way I kept getting IP address conflicts. This is how I did it instead: Configure OWA on both front end servers with the same certificate Make sure Exchange patches are consistent on both cluster [...]
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Battling with BrightStor
I really hate ARCserve products. It's not very often that I have to run an Exchange restore, but every time I do I just run into obsticles, cryptic and ambiguous error messages, and a complete lack of solutions on the ARCserve site and Google search results. What makes this worse is restores are normally required [...]
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