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HowTo: Export VMware vSphere Sessions

I moved myself to a new workstation and followed my previous steps to export my putty sessions.  This time around I am exporting my Virtual Infrastructure Client settings From the run prompt (shortcut keys: WinKey+R) enter regedit,, this opens the registry editor Locate the following branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VMware On the File menu, click Export In File name, enter […]

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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 | Released

Weeks of waiting and its here at last. Q. What is it? A. RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) is a Windows Server component for remote management of other computers and server operating systems running Windows. Grab the tools here: Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10  

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Tech Short Q&A: What is vCenter Single Sign-On For

What is vCenter Single Sign-On? vCenter Single Sign-On is a feature of VMware vCenter 5, 6 and future vCenter implementations that is an authentication broker which also creates security tokens providing a secure way of accessing your environments. This token exchange mechanism is far superior than the former requirement of each component authenticating separately with a directory service such […]

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SharePoint 2013 SP1: Configuration Wizard Issues New Installation, SDDL Invalid SID

During an install of SharePoint 2013 SP1 the following issues was encountered post installation where the configuration wizard would fail with the following error: failed to create sample data “The SDDL string contains an invalid sid or sid that cannot be translated” To resolve this issue I attempted to run all SharePoint servers as the local […]

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SharePoint 2013 SP1: Configuration Wizard Issues New Installation, TimeoutException

During an install of SharePoint 2013 SP1 the following issues was encountered post installation where the configuration wizard would fail to register SharePoint services. The following error was displayed: Exception: System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed. To correct this issue we add two registry key values: – “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\<version>\LauncherSettings” – […]

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OneDrive & OneDrive for Business

Many of us have used OneDrive for several years now.  Now with the big boom in cloud adoption and the great success of Microsoft’s Office 365. Introducing the buzz around implementing OneDrive for Business. I for one have had my share of thoughts around this. Sure its OneDrive and you just drop in files which […]