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Tech Short: Proxmox – Adding node to existing cluster

I’m back and testing proxmox once again.  This time I am adding my 3rd machine to the cluster. Performing this task is very simple to do and takes only a few moments of time to complete. With that said lets get into it. First you will need to access the proxmox console or log via […]

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Remaining Rated Write Endurance 0%

My Dell PowerEdge R630 users have reported slowdowns. Investigating did not show any issues. After a support request with Dell it was mentioned that the SSD drives I’m using are known to exhibit issues of slowdowns due to timing problems. This has been addressed with a firmware upgrade. The drives being used are configured in a RAID10 under the PERC […]

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Server 2012 R2 Data Deduplication on Windows 8.1

Talking a late walk around features of Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the features that interested me was the deduplicaiton feature. Naturally I want to run this on my Windows desktop. So my journey began. Warning these steps and method are no way supported by Microsoft; use at your own risk. To pull this off […]

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PowerShell for Office 365

Hiya; Have you moved into Office 365? Oh you did! Then you are already aware of all the fun things you can do and some of the ones you can’t without the use of powershell commands Thankfully Microsoft and the Office 365 team have released a new site titled PowerShell for Office 365 which targets Office 365 […]

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Back on vCenter in my home lab

Oh yeah; anyone else have the warm fuzzy feeling right now; Hashtags: #‎VMware‬ ‪#‎vCenter‬ ‪#‎ESXi‬   All in my home lab. Once again I have the management capabilities over systems that I prefer. VMware vCenter 6 is awesome and I am in love with the web interface Next — Storage upgrade 3.0. That will be 16TB […]

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Tech Short: Disable Lync / Skype for Business User

Here is a quick example of how to disable to Lync / Skype for Business User Open Windows Power Shell –  In my case I use Windows Powershell ISE – These steps need to take place on the Lync server host itself. # Example: disables Lync user account # Lync now known as Skype for Business […]