ESXi host shutdown with APC UPS connected via USB
Brian FarrugiaWe had a situation were a customer has a single VMware ESXi 5.5 host connected to an APC UPS and he required that the VMs and host shut down cleanly…
Restore a deleted mailbox in Exchange 2013
Recently we had a client that deleted an exchange mailbox by mistake. He quickly recreated it for the user to be able to receive and send e-mails but in the…
Veeam Hyper-V Replication Error: Failed to find actual VM settings
I have a customer that is replicating his Virtual Machines from a Hyper-V standalone host in the primary site to another host in his DR site. The hosts are installed…
VSS Writers and related services
I have been meaning to keep a record of the VSS writers and associated services to restart. I wrote this post mainly for personal reference.
Control Datacore SSV Write Cache with APC PCNS
The post describes the process of setting up PCNS to disable or enable write cache on Datacore SAN Symphony V when the UPS is on Battery or Power is Restored…
Altaro – VSS Provider Override
This week I was evaluating Altaro VM-Backup because I read that they had released version 6, which now supports backing up virtual machine running on the VMware hyper visor. Apart from…
Slow Hyper-V Shared Nothing Live Migration
A customer of ours purchased a new server to create a Hyper-V cluster with the existing server. We decided to create a single node cluster and migrate the vms to…
Issues with dragging items in some folders from Outlook after Migrating to Office365
If you are having problems dragging folders after migrating to Office 365, The scripts in this article will help you identify the issue and solve the problem.
Changing the Authentication method in Exchange 2013
A quick step-by-step to change the username field from Domain\User Name to User name Only in Microsoft Exchange 2013