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Today I had an interesting problem to fix, I’m not a Microsoft Lync expert and to be honest haven’t had much if any dealing with our Lync infrastructure. Unfortunately our Lync guy is away on holiday so the task fell to me. What was the problem? Users reported that Microsoft Lync or Skype for … Read more
I recently came across a few blade servers which, for whatever reason did not have their HP Smart Array controller configured for caching. These particular servers are HP StoreEasy blades with a Smart Array P220i controller. I’ll quickly run through the steps carried out to configure the Smart Array cache. Configuration I logged onto the … Read more
Today I deployed the 3PAR Vision monitoring software from http://www.3parvision.com/ A free trial is available and the company sent me a Tweet with details and I decided to give it a shot and provide some feedback to those of you reading this site and the company itself. Installer Requirements .NET Framework 4.5 is installed on … Read more
We have a Microsoft 2012 R2 Failover Cluster (FOC) with disk resources presented from our HP 3PAR SAN. At some point two of the volumes were removed on the 3PAR however they had not been removed as Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) on the FOC. When we attempted to remove the disks as CSV resources and … Read more
Today we are working on the gold image for our Microsoft RDS VDI environment. This build runs Windows 7 x86 along with core apps and is protected by Trend Micro OfficeScan. As I’m sure many people will know anti-malware software does not always take kindly to being imaged. Usually there is either a tool, script … Read more
I need to migrate my Microsoft Failover Clusters (FOCs) from one file share witness (FSW) quorum to another. Currently they point to a virtual machine (VM) running from an old site with a single rack mount server. This isn’t ideal and was only ever a temporary solution and now we are ready to move the … Read more
To whomever feels the need to repeatedly attempt to break the password for my WordPress admin account – I admire your persistence but really, isn’t it time to try another site? As amusing as it is for me to see alerts of repeated failed login attempts it does get old rather quickly.