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Has anyone else got an invite...trying it out? If so...thoughts so far? Got an invite today for Project Fi and decided to give it a try. My Verizon contract ends at the end of August and this will give me a few months to decide if I want to renew it. On average...I use about .75GB -...

Had a Powershell script working for some time now and noticed this morning it isn't working. I am seeing this error: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: length At C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\UserAudit - 4-2-15 Backup.ps1:202 char:5 + $EventLogQuery = @" +...

Simple Exchange question. If a user is deleted from Active Directory directly and there mailbox is not cleanup before the removal...what does Exchange do? Will it even notice the user has been deleted from AD? If it does notice...does it mark it as a "Disconnected Mailbox" and then its up to...

I am a little confused on this subject. I been VCP5-DCV certified since 2013 and when I took the mandatory course, the instructor said that there are no cert renewals/expirations once you are certified. The VCP5-DCV cert is good for all 5.x releases until 6 and above come out. He also mentioned...

I have always ran into this with SSD's, but now trying to figure out the root issue. I have a laptop that has no optical DVD Drive. I have a SSD hard drive in it as well. When I try to install Windows 7 from a USB key, the Windows 7 installation does not detect the SSD hard drive. If I...

A surprise in my inbox this morning...vSphere 6 is official today. I knew it was in beta and that VMware was doing a 28 days of February thing...but I still figured this would be official in August when VM World happens. I for one am excited for it...Fault Tolerance finally gets past the 1...

I am working on a Powershell script that will go through the Windows Security Logs and parse the the user logon events, so I can keep an audit trail of who is logging into each of the servers. I have the Powershell script working to the point where its getting each individual unique logon...

Having some issues getting IGMP working with a Cisco ASA. The objective I am trying to accomplish is setup Microsoft NLB using IGMP multicast. Yes I know NLB isnt preferred, but for the purposes of what I am trying to accomplish in this test environment, it will work well. The setup is...

Working on trying to figure out some items in Active Directory Certificate Services. I stood up a new test/development domain with two DC's and installed AD CS on one of the controllers (not recommended I know, but practicing for a AD CS migration). Both DC's have a issued certificate...

I am working on a PowerShell script to get all the users from an specific defined OU and add them to the following array. $adusernames = Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=TestUsers,DC=xyz,DC=com" | Select sAMAccountName Issue im running into, is when the Get-ADuser command gets the...

Not sure if anyone is familiar with NetApp SAN's. Working on standing up a NetApp and keep receiving RPC timeout messages for almost every LUN, VOLUNE, IG command I execute. Does it both in the System Manager and the CLI. I don't see CPU utilization past 5% and verified my time settings...

We have some Hyper V 2008 R2 servers and looking to migrate the VM's on them to our new Hyper V 2012 R2 servers. It looks like its not as simple as exporting the VM's and re-importing them on the new Hyper V 2012 R2 servers. Is there an easy method to do this? Both Hyper V environments are...

I am trying to understand reservations in Hyper V and Hyper V CPU Performance. If I set a reservation for 75% on a 8 CPU VM, I know that means when the 8 cores being used for the VM are at contention, 75% is reserved for the VM with the reservation and all the other ones on that core will...

I have a PowerShell script that is using HyperV CMDlets and I am exporting VM's. I have multiple Export statements for each VM needing export (Can't pipe a Get-VM into it as I am not exporting all the VM's). When it finishes exporting the VM, PowerShell isnt processing the next export...

One more SCVMM question :) One item I am investigating is doing a SCVMM cluster. I know its an active/passive setup which is totally fine, but I would ideally like to set it up across two physical locations. Basically, when this system goes full production, I would like one of our pilot...

Working on setting up my learning environment with and I have 3 layer 3 switches. I have two switches as the "Distribution" layer (SW1 and SW2) and then the final switch for the "Access" layer (SW3). On SW1 and SW2 I created 3 VLAN's via VLAN interfaces (10,20,30) and have them in a HSRP...

I have a question regarding SCVMM 2012 R2 and the type of Logical Network to use. There are 3 options and the first 2 is where I am confusing the differences between each other. There is "One Connected Network" and then there is "VLAN-based independent network" In the lab this...

I am working on a new SCVMM 2012 R2 lab environment and just installed SCVMM. I am trying to add my two Hyper V hosts to it and its not detecting them...it detects all my other servers EXCEPT the two Hyper V hosts. Has anyone seen this before? DNS is resolving right and I even Wiresharked the...

I am trying to get Multicast imaging working on my Windows Deployment Server. Anything that tries a Multicast transmission from WDS gets stuck in a "waiting" state and then times out and defaults to a unicast transmission....so from what I can tell and research so far...its the network that isnt...

Working on taking a sysprep image of a new line of laptops we got. Just got done installing Windows 7 and all the necessary applications and ready to Sysprep and capture with WDS. Sysprep keeps failing with the following lines: 2013-12-26 11:06:36, Error [0x0f0082] SYSPRP LaunchDll:Failure...

In our development environment, I am seeing a new domain controller show up in the Active Directory Sites and Services container under a site of ours. I went to go investigate and logged into the server in question and it doesn't even have the Active Directory DC role installed. What could...

Working on setting up a a 2 host Hyper V setup for a lab environment. Have a third server sitting around that will make a good central storage pool for these two hosts. I know theres a few Opensource SAN/NAS distributions out there. Just need iSCSI emulation in it. Whats the best/good...

Does anyone have one of these Freedom Arms LCD Monitor stands? I just got one and not sure if its defective or just missing something, but I cant get the arm to stay in place. The spring keeps pulling it up in its most upwards position. There was no manual but I do have two tools, but...

Working on testing an upgrade from SCVMM 2008 R2 to 2012 SP1. I am at the 2012 SP1 install and when I choose to connect to existing database, it wont connect and says I need to connect to a non SP1 vanilla 2012 database or a 2012 SP1 database...so apparently it looks like the upgrade path from...

For the past couple weeks now, we been having issues with some of our VM hosts missing DNS entries. There Server 2008 R2 Hyper V servers and SCVMM is loosing connectivity to them between 5PM and 9PM. What I discovered the DNS A record is missing as it expires in this time frame and it seems like...

Is it possible to upgrade an existing installation of Server 2008 R2 with Hyper V to 2012 with Hyper V? I am seeing conflicting stories so far in my googling that says its possible and not possible. We have 5 hosts running Hyper V role on Server 2008 R2 and I am looking to turning the...

I am taking the VMware class of vSphere Install, Configure, Manage v5.1 which is the pre-req before taking the VCP5-DCV exam later this month. The certification is VMware Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualization Just wondering, how well off I should be after this class before...

Whats some good PDU's for server racks that are metered? Working on cleaning up one of our closets and have two racks of servers. Need to get some PDU's in here to clean up the power strips that are currently in place and would like to get some metered PDU's. Each power circuit we have is...

Trying to enable WDS for our Hyper-V testing environment. VM's are spun up on this environment for development and testing purposes for our software and testing departments. We are trying to enable PXE booting so these users can reimage the VM's themselves and not have to go through the help...

Setting up a stand-alone WDS/PXE server. Current we have helper addresses setup to forward the DHCP requests from the different VLAN's to the DHCP server. The WDS/PXE server we are setting up is on its server. How do we craft the helper addresses so DHCP requests go to the proper server...

Before I go out and buy another card for this, just want to make sure this is possible. My Setup: 2 monitors on workstation and a TV out in the living room that I ran cable to, so my PC connects to it as well. My PC functions as a HTPC as well for the living room PC. What I want to do...

I am trying to write a PowerShell script, that will run on the root of the E: drive and find any file that is older than 2 months from today. I created the following PowerShell command get-childitem -recurse | where-object {$_.mode -notmatch "d"} | where-object {$_.lastwritetime -lt...

Maybe I am missing it, but where do you find out what locations in your area offer the CCNA certification and to sign up for a time slot? I been procrastinating the CCNA for all year so I am just going to put myself in my own "bootcamp" read the books this week (almost through them already)...

I just upgraded my old Onkyo receiver to a new Onkyo 414 Receiver. Its working great, minus my PC input via HDMI. It looks like the Onkyo is enlarging the image, but its not fitting properly on my LCD TV. When I connect the HDMI cable from my PC directly to the LCD TV, the display is perfect...

I manage a VMM 2008 environment and I believe we are starting to hit limitations on VMM 2008 and how many connections it can do. It seems like every week/2 weeks RPC starts to crap out on the VMM PC and causes all the VM's on the manage hosts (we have 6 hosts, where 4 hosts have about 100 VM's a...

I cannot find the DCDiag download for Server 2008 R2. Its installed on my domain controllers by default, but need to run it on a workstation. Any idea how to get this install?

Today I noticed there is a 5 minute gap between my Active Directory controller time that has the PDC role and all the computers joined to the Active Directory domain. When I run the command "net time" on a child server/workstation, they properly report the time on the domain controller with the...

Are there any official solutions to allow inductive wireless charging for the Galaxy Nexus? It would be nice to be able to get some mat that does it for my work office so I can just set my phone down and it instantly start charging. If no official solution, anyone have any good links for...

Anyone know if this is possible? I am assuming it is, probably limited in certain areas. I really have no desire to go to Windows 8, but want to start messing around with Server 2012 and wondering if the Windows 7 Remote Administration Tools plugin into Server 2012?

I dont see any easy way in Hyper-V to determine when the last time a VM was powered on. By default, in one of our VM environments, we have a PowerShell script that turns off all the VM's at night (its a testing environment that is limited on resources, and not all the VM's are needed to be...