Windows Server 2008 Core: Enable Remote Desktop
The following command will toggle Remote Desktop on and off on a Windows Server 2008 Core install using the "PowerShell" Cscript %windir%\system32\SCRegEdit.wsf /ar 0
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Windows Server 2008 Core: Disabling the Firewall
The following command will disable the firewall on a Windows Server 2008 Core install using the "PowerShell" netsh firewall set opmode disable The below will re-enable the firewall netsh firewall set opmode enable
Changing the VLAN ID of a ESX \ vSphere Service Console from the Command Line
If you have forgotten to enter the VLAN ID during the VMWare ESX or VSphere installed or you have entered the wrong VLAN ID you will find you will be unable to manage the VMWare host remotely, the only way to resolve …
Get the Users AD Site Name
This tiny VBS script will return the current users Active Directory site name, which is very useful in a login script for doing things like adding printers or mapping drives based on what site the user is at Set objADSysInfo …
Using xcopy to copy files and folders and keeping the ntfs permissions
Overview Xcopy while still included in Windows 10, XCOPY has been deprecated in favor of robocopy. XCOPY it has some great switches for doing things such as verifying the copy and only coping file that is newer than the destination. …
You Were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network
Problem: If like me you are trying to add a CNAME alias to an existing computer so you can access it via two different DNS names and you receive the message “You Were not connected because a duplicate name exists …
Re-creating the IMA Local Host Cache in Citrix XenApp
Problem: If the IMA Service will not start with messages in the event log such as the following, then the IMA local host cache database may be corrupt or the Citrix server may be unable to connect to the datastore …
The OSI Model
Overview of the OSI Model For Host-to-Host communications to to take place a consistent model is required especially when the Host-to-Host communications is taking place between different vendors. The OSI model was created so different vendors would have a standard …
Restarting the Service Console on a vSphere ESX Host
Restarting the VMware management service can resolve lots of problems mainly problem where the VMware Host cannot be contacted correctly by the vSphere Client, or a Virtual machine will not start or vmotion Restarting the service does the same things …
VMWare VCB & Backup Exec Script
I recently started using the VMWares Consolidated Backup product to backup the virtual servers on our VMWare ESX hosts. Dues to our VCB proxy server only having a 40Gb Hard Drive we where having problems with the pre-command script that …