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SQL Server backup in multiple parts

“It’s so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there’s no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That’s pretty well known.” – Robert Atkins Recently I have been working with my dB Administrator to get some DR backups to our […]

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How-To Software Technical

MSCRMKeyGenerator – CrmWRPCTokenKey is expired / WRPCKeyRenewal

Last Night I had an MSCRMKeyGenerator error message “Current active key (KeyType : CrmWRPCTokenKey) is expired. This issue was found after a few users reach out with the follow error message when accessing CRM: Invalid Action  – The selected action was not valid I attempted the following steps: Restarted IIS with an IISRESET.  That did not fix the problem […]

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Server 2008 R2 KMS Server support for Windows 8 and Server 2012 activation

The time has come, it has arrived. Windows 8 and Server 2012. And now you need to activate some clients  activate you a serve. If you are running a KMS Server using Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2, it may be time to upgrade; well not necessarily. You see when you attempt to activate your Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 […]

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News Technical

Hyper-V Server 2012 hits Release to Manufacturing (RTM)

Hey there; you want to build some servers? You do? That’s good, real good. Microsoft also pushed Hyper-V Server 2012 to Release to Manufacturing (RTM) status. It’s now yours for the download and installation pleasure. All you need to do is get it from here and you are on your way with virtualization using Microsoft latest […]

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Windows 8 Error Code: 0x0000005D

“East bound and down, loaded up and truckin’,We’re gonna do what they say can’t be done” – Jerry Reed Hello folks, so your playing around with VMware, or Virtualbox and you go to install Windows 8 and encounter the dreaded error code 0x0000005D. Yeah this one “Your PC needs to restart. Please hold down the power button. Error […]

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Hardware How-To Technical

Enable SNMP on ESXi5

Looking to enable SNMP to do some external monitoring on my ESXi Boxen. I took a quick dive into the CLI and found a way to do this. Using our friend putty, I connected to my ESXi host via SSH. I then changed directory to the /etc/vmware/ folder: ~ # cd /etc/vmware/ ESXi 5 doesn’t […]