Bad Pun I know, but I’ve made the move from my works laptop running Windows 8.1 over to my personal MacBook Pro. The apple machine is the last of the late 2011 model, and tbh I’ve hardly used it, so I purchased some RAM (4GB to 16GB) and an SSD (Samsung 850 Pro). The upgrades … Continue reading MAC’ing the move (Windows to OS X)
On a Server 2008 R2 machine, I had an issue demoting from being a Domain Controller, after moving the FSMO roles onto a new machine. This was after a second domain controller died. I am not sure of the previous history of where the FSMO roles were for this client. Two new DC’s were created … Continue reading DCPromo Fails – The directory service is missing mandatory configuration information
Everyone is chiming in with their two cents, so here are mine. Software Defined Networking
Last exam of the year The past few months I’ve forced my head into revision for the three CCNP exams, with two down, I have TSHOOT left to do, and I’m aiming to pass before Christmas Day. Which is a nice goal to have, but when I have to recertify next year, It’ll be around … Continue reading Applying the TSHOOT methodology to everything
So I hit an interesting issue whilst performing a VMware upgrade from 4.0 to 5.5. There was a legacy issue left where vCenter had lost its knowledge/configuration of the DVS Setup. Im not entirely sure what happened or when, as it was an existing environment, I only know I had to fix it. (Many thanks … Continue reading vCenter lost DVS configuration – Fixing the hosts