by Dean | Nov 9, 2015 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, Microsoft, Tutorial, Virtualisation, VMWare
My home lab is a single workstation that runs the free version of ESXi. I don’t really have much of a need for more then that so I don’t want to go spending large amounts of money on licences etc that I really am not going to make good use of. So today...
by Dean | Nov 19, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Microsoft
While setting up a mixed environment server I was continually annoyed by the MAC machines adding those hidden files into the Windows File Shares. (You know the ones the .DS_Store, ._.DS_Store, .Trashes, ._Filename) After considering a few possibilities such as a...
by Dean | Aug 21, 2014 | General IT, HyperV, IT, Microsoft, Virtualisation
You have your machine all setup and ready, now it is time to add the machine into a HA HyperV Cluster. Here are the steps to getting that machine setup. Open the Fail Over Cluster Manager Right click on the cluster you want to add the machines into and select...
by Dean | May 21, 2014 | Error, Exchange, General IT, IT, Microsoft
Had a customer who is using Exchange 365 as their mail host. All of a sudden people who they were emailing started to receive the winmail.dat attachments instead of the correct email. Now we all know that winmail.dat in incompatible message formats (See KB: 278061) in...
by Dean | Feb 10, 2014 | Error, General IT, IT, Microsoft, Skydrive
There is a lot of talk about issues with Sky Drive and Windows 8.1. Came across one issue where the metro app worked fine, but sync was not occurring between Sky Drive and the local machine. The customer reported that it was working fine a few days ago, and that there...
