Recently I had to run a workshop for our IT personnel in international branches. The workshop centred around setting up Windows 2012 Domain and various other roles. I thought this would be an ideal opportunity to test vCloud Air and use it to setup the labs for the participants. VMware very kindly offer £300 credit […]
I recently attended the VMware vSphere: Design and Deploy Fast Track course in London. VMware Fast Track courses are intensive courses that pack in more than a regular course and as result are fairly intense, the group I was in definitely would have appreciated a bit more time for the labs. The course combined both […]
The esxcli unamp command is an useful tool for reclaiming space from thin provisioned LUNs, more details on the command and it’s use can be found in this VMware KB article: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2057513 The version of vSphere we use is 5.5 and I have ran this command and reclaimed space before without any issues, however, on one particular LUN […]
Since Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, changed password expiry notification from alert dialog to balloon popup we’ve had numerous incidents of users missing the warnings and their passwords expiring midway through the day. Having looked at ways to overcome this the only possible solution seemed to be either though login scripts or third party solutions. […]
A typical Microsoft Exchange solution for SMEs might look like this: Consequently a Subject Alternative Name (SAN) certificate will probably contain the following entries: itexch01.itfountain.local itexch02.itfountain.local autodiscover.itfountain.com mail.itfountain.com The internal names are usually used for the Client Access Server (CAS) role and is what Outlook will connect to. For this reason the internal server names must […]
I was lucky enough to attend the VMworld Europe in Barcelona earlier this month so I thought I would write a quick review of the experience. My company is looking at several virtualisation projects so I thought it would be a good idea to to go along to the biggest virtualisation conference. I got to Barcelona […]
