Practical Help for Exchange & Office 365
While this isn’t exactly groundbreaking stuff I thought it might serve as a nice refresher to those that dabble in the Cisco CLI. These are a few commands you can never do without.
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SharePoint Explorer View allows you to view your SharePoint Document Library in a Windows Explorer View. This view is nice for uploading dozens of files at once, very quickly and very easily.
However, the performance of your Explorer View may be severely impacted by a single checkbox. If you have ever tried to use Explorer View and browsing between the folders is incredibly slow then here is how you fix it. The difference is night and day.
I ran into a situation recently where a client needed a USB drive connected directly to a VMware ESXi 4.1 host. As many of you know, getting USB pass-through working is a challenge in itself. There are lots of requirements to be met at both the host level and the guest VM level. The strange part was that I seemingly met all those requirements.
I had already added my USB bus controllers through Configuration –> Advanced Settings on the ESXi host. I had rebooted. Seemingly everything looked great and appeared as if it were passing through. I confirmed my VM was running Hardware Version 7 and I added the USB Controller without incident. However, the USB devices were greyed out and when I selected it I received the following message.
There are no USB devices connected to the host.
Initially, I had enabled all USB buses for pass-through. What I ultimately found was that by disabling the EHCI USB bus back in Configuration –> Advanced Settings, along with another reboot, did the trick. The above message went away and USB devices were no longer greyed out. I was then able to add my USB drive to my VM without incident.
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A while back I posted about Service Pack 2 for Backup Exec 2012 and Service Pack 3 for Backup Exec 2010 being in beta. Well, testing is over and the day has come. Both service packs have been released. And this is what they include.
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I ran into an issue recently while trying to securely wipe a Dell OptiPlex 755 with my favorite data destruction software, Active@ KillDisk. I was using their bootable DOS CD. The first two PCs I was wiping were Dell OptiPlex 745’s and these were wiped without a hitch. Then, when I tried to wipe my Dell OptiPlex 755, I kept getting this error during the initial boot.
getFATblock failed: 0x000000d2
I tried burning new CDs and DVDs. Even tried the bootable USB stick. Nothing worked. Same error every time. I tried it on another OptiPlex 755, and bang, same issue. I then decided to browse around the BIOS, and a thought came to me to try and switch the SATA Operation Mode to “Legacy”. I did this, saved the BIOS, and rebooted.
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The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 1, which is less than required: 2
The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 0, which is less than required: 2
I ran into these errors recently after configuring High Availability on a brand new VMware ESXi 5.1 cluster. I had used SanDisk cards for my ESXi operating system and planned to use a LeftHand Virtual SAN Appliance with only one LUN so I was only going to ever have one shared datastore. I knew I would have to squelch this error right away.
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