Install and Configure VMware ESXi 6.0

There are few system requirements that must be met before you can install ESXi 6.0 server: - Make sure the server hardware that you are going to install ESXi server on is supported by VMware vSphere. You can check that using VMware Compatibility Guide. - The physical server must have ...

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Configure IP Address and Hostname in ESXi Server

You need to have physical access to the server to configure IP address in ESXi server. Press F2 to log in to Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) of ESXi server. You can configure DNS and hostname using vSphere client.   Enter the password for root user account. Press [Enter]. You...

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Configure the storage area for shadow copies to go to a different NTFS volume on a Windows 2008 and 2012 servers

Problem Backup jobs fail due to VSS related errors indicating either a lack of disk space or IO that is too high to maintain the shadow copies. Solution By default, Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) is configured to write the shadow copies of a volume to a storage location on the volume itself.  This can result in very high IO or low disk space problems...

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Backup and Restore ESXi configuration using VMware vSphere CLI

How to backup First of all you have to download  and install the vSphere CLI tool. You should also have access to the ESXi server using the tool. Open the CLI console as is shown on the picture and run the command below.   Tool located at C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware...

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Removing shared mailboxes from an Outlook profile

Following a server migration, an administrator had user's mailboxes showing up in his profile. This was the result of giving himself Full Access permission to the mailboxes during the migration. When a user has Full Access permission to another user's mailbox, Outlook 2007 and above automatically...

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Windows Server 2008 Activation error: Code 0x8007232b

When you trying to activate Windows Server 2008 and got this error: “Activation Error: Code 0x8007232b. DNS Name does not exist” Actually Windows was looking for KMS server for the activation and when it did not find that, it threw error 0x8007232b. I used following method to resolve the issue: 1. Right-click Command Prompt. 2. Click Run as administrator. 3. Type the following command, and then...

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An error caused a change in the current set of domain controllers - Exchange 2010

After demoting some domain controllers, Exchange was functional and healthy, but we were seeing the occasional error when loading recipient lists, or drilling into a specific mailbox's settings such as below: This error is caused by GUI caching, more specifically MMC caching. This occurs when...

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