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Tim's trash of thoughts: September 2012
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Tim's trash of thoughts. Every now and then you run into a small discovery that you know you will ever need again in your life. This is where I throw together all of mine. Perhaps they come in handy for you too. Friday, September 21, 2012. Upgrading Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8 Enterprise. Unfortunately, Microsoft does not support performing an in-place upgrade. This was surprisingly easy. It suffices to modify the " EditionID. Registry keys in the following location:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Tim's trash of thoughts: Windows 8 DNS resolution issues and IPv6
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Tim's trash of thoughts. Every now and then you run into a small discovery that you know you will ever need again in your life. This is where I throw together all of mine. Perhaps they come in handy for you too. Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Windows 8 DNS resolution issues and IPv6. One small issue that I faced already a few times, is that the Windows TCP/IP stack does not seem to be able to properly resolve a DNS hostname (FQDN) despite that nslookup. That is also the reason why Microsoft recommends against.
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Tim's trash of thoughts: July 2008
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Tim's trash of thoughts. Every now and then you run into a small discovery that you know you will ever need again in your life. This is where I throw together all of mine. Perhaps they come in handy for you too. Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Full backups of virtual machines and Windows VSS. Inside the guest. For example, the recently released version of VMWare's Consolidated Backup 1.5. Now supports VSS quiescing for Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008; vizioncore's vRanger Pro. The early days of VSS.
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Tim's trash of thoughts: ESX Whitebox & RAID controller failures - an epic struggle
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Tim's trash of thoughts. Every now and then you run into a small discovery that you know you will ever need again in your life. This is where I throw together all of mine. Perhaps they come in handy for you too. Thursday, April 1, 2010. ESX Whitebox and RAID controller failures - an epic struggle. March 31, 8:00 AM. Light; after disconnecting the power, the switch got back up again. March 31, 8:05 AM. No internet connectivity; road works again, like the day before? March 31; 8:10 AM. About a year ago, I ...
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Tim's trash of thoughts: October 2012
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Tim's trash of thoughts. Every now and then you run into a small discovery that you know you will ever need again in your life. This is where I throw together all of mine. Perhaps they come in handy for you too. Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Windows 8 DNS resolution issues and IPv6. One small issue that I faced already a few times, is that the Windows TCP/IP stack does not seem to be able to properly resolve a DNS hostname (FQDN) despite that nslookup. That is also the reason why Microsoft recommends against.
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Tim's trash of thoughts: August 2008
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Tim's trash of thoughts. Every now and then you run into a small discovery that you know you will ever need again in your life. This is where I throw together all of mine. Perhaps they come in handy for you too. Thursday, August 14, 2008. Matching LUN's between ESX hosts and a VCB proxy. One of the problems that I encountered at a customer was to discover what VMFS partitions were presented to a VCB proxy. It turned out to be a bit more complex than I had first expected. The mission is to find a unique i...
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Tim's trash of thoughts: Removing OneDrive from Windows Explorer in Windows 10 TP
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Tim's trash of thoughts. Every now and then you run into a small discovery that you know you will ever need again in your life. This is where I throw together all of mine. Perhaps they come in handy for you too. Friday, February 20, 2015. Removing OneDrive from Windows Explorer in Windows 10 TP. In Windows 8.1, there was plenty of documentation on what registry keys to modify in order to hide OneDrive from explorer, see for example here. That already visually removes OneDrive. Next up, make sure it d...
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Tim's trash of thoughts: April 2009
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Tim's trash of thoughts. Every now and then you run into a small discovery that you know you will ever need again in your life. This is where I throw together all of mine. Perhaps they come in handy for you too. Thursday, April 9, 2009. Active Directory over SSL in VMware Lifecycle Manager. I recently have been playing around with VMware's Lifecycle Manager. After configuring LCM to use Active Directory and SSL, I was getting the following error message:. First, obtain a copy of the issuing certification...
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Tim's trash of thoughts: December 2008
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Tim's trash of thoughts. Every now and then you run into a small discovery that you know you will ever need again in your life. This is where I throw together all of mine. Perhaps they come in handy for you too. Monday, December 22, 2008. Counting ESX Server storage paths. Disk vmhba1:9:2 /dev/sdf (102400MB) has 8 paths and policy of Fixed. FC 13:0.0 10000000c96e8972. 50001fe15009264e vmhba1:9:2 On active preferred. FC 13:0.0 10000000c96e8972. FC 13:0.0 10000000c96e8972. FC 13:0.0 10000000c96e8972. I wor...
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Tim's trash of thoughts: April 2010
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Tim's trash of thoughts. Every now and then you run into a small discovery that you know you will ever need again in your life. This is where I throw together all of mine. Perhaps they come in handy for you too. Thursday, April 1, 2010. ESX Whitebox and RAID controller failures - an epic struggle. March 31, 8:00 AM. Light; after disconnecting the power, the switch got back up again. March 31, 8:05 AM. No internet connectivity; road works again, like the day before? March 31; 8:10 AM. About a year ago, I ...