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I have been fielding a few calls very recently where a computer was upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 automatically to a user's surprise, so they then…
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Test Internet Speed on Linux Terminal
Instead of visiting sites like Speedtest.net through a browser, you can install speedtest-cli package on Linux and test bandwidth speeds from the command line. $ apt-get install speedtest-cli…
List VMFS extents in ESXi
Run the esxcli storage vmfs extent list command to generate a list of extents for each volume and mapping from device name to UUID. You see output similar to:…
This host has no isolation addresses defined as required by vSphere HA
Had some troubles with an ESXi 5.5 host the past week and rebuilt some of the networking which included removing a vmkernel and re-adding to a standard vSwitch…
IBM IMM KVM
IBM IMM Default Username: USERID Default Password: PASSW0RD Access KVM: http://<IP>/kvm/kvm/jnlp
Batch Script Add Windows Users using Netsh
The following batch script will add a group of users to Windows, set no password, and require a password change at first logon. @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set…
Monitor ESXi Free using SNMP
ESXi 4.1 and 5.0 Enable SNMP SSH to host and edit the SNMP.XML file: vi /etc/vmware/snmp.xml Make the following changes: <config> <snmpSettings> <enable>true</enable> <communities>public</communities> <targets>192.168.1.100@public</targets> </snmpSettings> </config> Restart management…
Use netsh to set interface IP static or dhcp
Get Configuration Info Using the command below, you can gather information on the adapter's current configuration. Make note of the connection name since that is what is used…
Join Nano Server to a Domain
To join my Windows Server 2016 Nano server to my test domain I used the djoin.exe (Domain Join) command. From a domain controller, or server already joined to my…
Create Nano Server Image
I was trying to build a Nano Server image (2016 Tech Preview 5) and kept getting the following error: Turns out that is because the documentation is not…
GPO to block regsvr32 AppLocker Bypass Vulnerability
A recently discovered method of bypassing AppLocker by using regsvr32.exe, poses a threat to users on Windows 7, 8/8.1, and 10 (Professional or Enterprise editions). To work around…
Test Dial on Modem in AIX
Had an issue with dialout on an AIX system this morning. Problem resolved, but I learned a pretty handy little command for testing dial-out (I didn't have a…
Speed up Send/Receive in Outlook 2013 Synchronized Folders
Ran into a performance issue for an end-user today where the Send/Receive process was hanging on synchronizing subscribed folders. One method to help speed up this process was…
Get All Virtual Machine Guest OS in Powershell
Continuing with learning some Powershell, I cooked this up which will connect to the vCenter server and get all the VM's and list the name, operating system and…
Create a Hyper-V Template for a Windows VM
This is how I create various Windows VM templates in Hyper-V. Create a new Hyper-V Virtual Machine Choose the generation of the virtual machine to create Assign it…