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SQL
Troubleshooting general SQL connectivity issues
There are quite a few things that an administrator may need to check when it comes to making sure connectivity to SQL is happy and healthy in your respective environments. As of late, I have put together a checklist of…
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Windows
Map a network drive from remote desktop back to local computer
If you are working a lot with remote desktop sessions especially in lab environments where network segmentation is present, there are often many situations where it is beneficial to have access to local or network drives from your host computer…
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SQL
See what user you are connecting to linked SQL server
I wanted to share with you guys a really handy little SQL query that is extremely useful if you are troubleshooting SQL Server linked server connectivity. You may have setup a local server login to remote server login mapping which…
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Windows
Kill a Windows service quick tip
Just a quick tip from the trenches that I have used numerous times over the years to deal with problematic Windows services. Let’s take a look at the “kill a Windows service quick tip”. You may have a service that…
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Virtualization
Altaro Update Supports Hyper-V CBT
In case you haven’t heard as of yet, with the lastest round of releases from Altaro, i.e. version 6.5, the Altaro update supports Hyper-V CBT or change block tracking, which it is touting has drastically increased the speed of their…
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Virtualization
Use same domain login for production and lab
Labs are cool right? We can use them for many use cases when it comes to testing and proof of concept mock ups. If you have been tasked to spin up a copy of your production environment in a lab…
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Virtualization
Veeam the object has already been deleted or has not been completely created
A quick post here of an issue I ran into supporting a Veeam Backup job in a particular environment. After needing to restore a handful of VMs to rollback a few bad changes made, the next backup job failed. The…
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Virtualization
P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery
The last few days I have been involved with a project to P2V an old Windows 2003 (yes cringe, bang head against wall now) cluster running SQL 2005. The P2V is simply a stop gap solution to get the cluster…
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Virtualization
Try Nakivo 6.1 Beta Download
Having used a lot of different backup products over the years in the enterprise and in the home lab environment, there are many qualities of a backup software that become important – functionality, simplicity, and stability. You want something that…
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NSX
VMware NSX Domain conflict with 1 existing domain
Recently, I ran into a peculiar issue with VMware NSX trying to add domains for security grouping. Through the GUI the process is fairly straightforward. However, after adding a domain in testing, removing, and adding again, I ran into an…
