In the dream time hours of the night one of the exchange data-stores went offline. The steps to resolve the issue were put in place and handled swiftly by the administrator on duty; but what was the cause. After some digging I arrive at the reason why the data-store went offline. Found in the Windows Application event ID 9630 […]
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In a previous post I went over using Virtual Box because I was unable to run Windows 8 (* preview) in a VMware Player and it required me to have Workstation 8. Well my wait is over and now the latest version of VMware player will run Win8. Oh happy day… About:VMware Player With […]
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Disk usage in Windows
Windows does not have any in-built command(Like the Linux command du) which show the disk usage statistics for a directory. However, there’s a downloadable tools from SysInternals(now part of Microsoft) which can show us the disk usage numbers. Du.exe version 1.4 can be downloaded from the below link. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896651 Find the disk usage of a directory […]
I just got my IPv6 Address – and with the help of Vyatta now all of my home systems can reach the IPv6 address space. If not, perhaps you should register for a free one and give yourself the hookup – http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ Next Up: jermsmit.com goes IPv6 Hurricane Electric provides free IPv6 tunnels via the […]
Here is a quick walkthrough on connecting your ESXi host to an iSCSI target. [Start Now] Connecting to our ESXi server with the vSphere client is go into the configuration tab then storage adapters. Now we need to enable the iSCSI software adapter and click configure. After enabling the software adapter we need to point […]
As some of you may know I am anti antivirus solutions that actively run and scan my systems. So I take many precautions to prevent infection from malware and virus infections. All of which involve running systems with non-privilege accounts, host file blocking of sites and now adding a content filtering proxy into the configuration, […]