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Windows
You Have Been Logged On with a Temporary Profile
We have covered some of the misery that happens with roaming profiles in a previous post. Roaming profiles seem to at best only work “some” of the time and can cause a lot of issues with other programs as well…
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Exchange
You have a previous version of the Microsoft Exchange Messaging Sevice
Beware of running multiple versions of Outlook in you enterprise Exchange environment especially with roaming profiles. There is a known issue when a user who normally uses Outlook 2007 to access their email account, then accesses that same email profile…
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Servers
Moving User Profiles to a new server
If you administer an environment that utilizes server stored profiles or roaming profiles, you probably already know what a nightmare these can be to manage. Many have run into problems also in trying to relocate roaming profiles to a different…
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Linux
Linux Network Connection Not Working Virtual Machine ESXi
Recently, in decommissioning an ESX 3.5 Server host, we ran in to a network problem with a few linux VMs residing on that particular host. Since we were not dealing with shared storage for this host and the other ESXi…
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Software
Removing Unwanted Entries in Outlook Autocomplete NK2 file
If you have been in an environment that uses Microsoft Outlook you know that Outlook stores addresses that you have typed in the address fields so that you don’t have to keep typing the same addresses in the field every…
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Troubleshooting
Connectivity and DNS troubleshooting
By far the most prevalent network problem we see in a networked computer environment is either connectivity issues or DNS issues. Usually the two problems are interrelated at some junction. We wanted to go over just a few basic troubleshooting…
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Virtualization
Migrating ESX 3.5 servers to ESXi 4.1 update 1
Many VMware admins who administer legacy versions of the VMware ESX family hypervisor are probably starting to look at how they can get to the ESXi family of hypervisor since VMware has made it clear (especially with the release of version 5)…
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Virtualization
VMware vMotion problems on ESX 3.5 servers after upgrade to vCenter 4.1
If you have run into a problem with VMware vMotion after upgrading your vCenter server to 4.1, it is most likely due to licensing issues and differences between 3.5 and 4.1. In working with a client recently who had this…
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ActiveDirectory
Transferring a FSMO Role using NTDSUTIL
There are a wealth of things you can do with the NTDSUTIL utility and it is one of the most powerful command line utilities a system administrator can have in his/her bag of tricks when working with Active Directory. We…
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ActiveDirectory
Installing a Read Only Domain Controller in a Windows 2008 R2 environment
Read Only domain controllers provide a really nice option for administrators who may want to place a domain controller in a remote site, particularly one that may not have a secure location for the server as such. The RODC may…
