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Updating ESXi 5 – How To

So you are running ESXi5 standalone in my house or your office.  You have a need up patch this baby for the latest in driver support for guest and perhaps for Runing Windows 8 on vSphere 5 Here are a few things you might want to know and do to make this happen   Make […]

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Windows 8 on vSphere 5

So I have had this desire to run Windows 8 in VMware  vSphere 5 for a long time now.   Knowing I could run it in Workstation 8; I wanted to also run this on my ESXi 5 host, but could not… So I waiting waited for an update.  I wasn’t going to hack my way to […]

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Installing the Failover Clustering Feature (FAIL)

I have been looking into using Hyper-V Server and its features.  One of those features are the Clustering feature for migrations and fail-over.    After many articles telling me to do this, try that, this may work , and here is a step by step filled with many links to other pages, and sites.  I now […]

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How to enable Kerberos event logging

This registry change works for Windows 2000/2003 /2003R2 and Windows Server 2008 and used for tracing detailed Kerberos events through the Microsoft event log viewer.   Enabling Kerberos Event Logging on a Specific Computer Start Registry Editor. Add the following registry value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlLsaKerberosParameters Registry Value: LogLevel Value Type: REG_DWORD Value Data: 0x1 If the Parameters […]

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Gmail tips or tricks?

Here are Gmail tips or tricks that you may want to know about Use address aliases Gmail doesn’t offer traditional e-mail aliases, but you can add a “+” to the end of your username to create one. For example, messages sent to username+alias@gmail.com is sent to username@gmail.com. This can be useful for setting up filters […]

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Windows 8, minus metro UI

Who would have known that I’d love the Windows 7 start menu.  Well I want it back and with the following tweak you can re-enable the classic start menu that we all have come to love. To get back the old start menu, open regedit, goto HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer change value of RPEnabled from “1” to “0” […]