Comment by Charles Burge on How to separate VMs from vCenter network?
I'm confused about the "excepting few locations". Does this mean that your VM's need to some computers on your network, but not others?
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on Windows 7 Client Can't Join Server's Active...
Just to rule out the obvious, are the clocks on the client and server synchronized? Authentication will fail if the clocks differ past a maximum threshold.
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on VMware Hard Disk is full, cannot start - what to do?
If you don't want to delete anything, then I think your next best option is to migrate at least one existing vmdk to another datastore.
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on Who is sftp-ing files to me? Is there any way to...
If the immediate goal is to simply i find out where the files are coming from, then checking /var/log/auth.log will at least get you partially there. It should log the IP address of the client machine...
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on Disable VMware BIOS Legacy Diskette
There are two places in the BIOS that you need to edit. The first is "Legacy Diskette A:" on the Main tab. The second is "Floppy Disk Controller" in the I/O Device Configuration section of the Advanced...
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on Windows Linux Subsystem keep running and load on...
Another option would be Hyper-V. You could configure it to start a headless Linux VM whenever your Windows machine boots.
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on Correct way to access a network share in a...
Is there a reason you need to map a drive letter, rather than just access the UNC path directly?
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion really?
RonJohn is correct. I was one of the early adopters of broadband when cable internet came to my area in 1997. I paid $50 (US) per month for it, and I distinctly remember that they offered a second IP...
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on Filtering Security Logs by User and Logon Type
This is exactly what I needed to find out who connected to one of my servers via RDP. I just had to change the LogonType to '10' (and remove the bit about username).
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on Convert VMware image to Virtualbox image (Guest...
This worked for me as well. When you attach an existing vmdk disk to a Virtualbox machine, it defaults to SATA. You need to remove the disk from that controller, then add a SAS controller (LSI Logic),...
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on SQL Server with MSA cannot write to UNC share
Thanks for the links. I used the red-gate link to set up a proxy, and I can see that the job is now running with my domain administrator credentials. However, it's still failing. Regarding the...
View ArticleComment by Charles Burge on Is it OK to use my public domain name as my...
This is a commonly accepted practice. For internal computers on the Active Directory network, you can use something like corp.domain.com.
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for What's so special about leased lines (T1, DS3, etc)
In addition to the answers above, it's often the least expensive way, or perhaps the only way, to get a static IP address. This is necessary if you want to set up a persistent VPN tunnel.
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for P2V - Cold Clone ISO
I have a copy of the 3.0.3 ISO and yes, that does appear to be the last one they made available. If you want to try your luck with the download, here's the MD5 hash of the copy that I have:...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Windows 2012 server, update error
Unless you're sure that the machine is hung, the best answer is probably just wait it out. I've seen rollbacks like this take a really long time. Your only other recourse is to do a hard reset, but...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for How can I schedule a server restart from command...
If the goal is simply to reboot after installing updates, then you can use the PSWindowsUpdate module to install the updates. You can download it from here. Once installed, just open Powershell and...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Can't find eth0 in CentOS 7
Starting with version 7, CentOS switched to systemd, which enumerates the network interfaces differently. Try running the commandip linkto see what interfaces the system sees. It will likely be...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Why am I still prompted for a password using sftp?
It's not clear to me if you're trying to set up SSH keys. Have a look here for directions on how to do that.Pay special attention to the part where you enter a passphrase. If you do not leave it empty,...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Don't know Server Name
If you only installed Management Studio then there is no server to connect to. You need to install the server part also. After doing that, the server name would be the same as the computer name...
View ArticleCan't rejoin server to domain after deleting it from DC
I have a Windows 2012 R2 Server Core machine that I was using for testing. I thought I was done with it, so I deleted the associated object from Active Directory Users and Computers. I didn't touch the...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Should a Dell 5424 switch have an arp entry for...
If you're specifically interested in the MAC addresses that correspond to the IP addresses on your network, you want your computer's arp cache, not the switch's. If that's the case, run arp -a after...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Active Directory w/ no DC at small remote offices
AD authentication requires very little bandwidth, especially if you aren't going to be sharing files over the network. At my company, we have 20-some retail stores with POS stations running Windows 7,...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Getting a Windows machine's MAC address
Linux has a great utility called arp-scan which can scan your network and generate a table with MAC addresses and their corresponding IP addresses. Sadly, it doesn't come included with Knoppix. I don't...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for vSphere - copy virtual machine to external usb...
As the others have said, having the thumb drive connected to your ESX host isn't going to be very helpful. However, you can copy files to another host on the network using scp (or the Windows...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for SQL Server Management Requirments
It works fine on Windows 7, but I always have difficulty installing it. At some point, the installation routine will freeze, and then I have to reboot and start over. It completes normally on the...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Isolate PC on my network
This is very dependent on your internet hardware, but some cable modems now have more than one Ethernet port (mine has four), and built-in NAT. I also have my own NAT router on the internal side of the...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Turn old computer into WAN accessible file server?
You might try looking into the Nas4Free project:https://www.nas4free.org/
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for P2V with a single-server domain controller
Here's one way that involves multiple steps, but it offers good insurance against potential problems. You'll need another computer to use temporarily until the process is done. For reference, I'll call...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Disk Management in Windows 2012 R2, where is it?
Right-click the start button, and choose Disk Management from the pop-up menu.Alternatively, you could click on "Tools" in Server Manager, and then click "Computer Management" from the drop-down menu....
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Can SQL Express be installed on Server Core?
I'm going to mark Pak's answer correct, for confirming that it can indeed be done. I tried a few more times before finally hitting upon the correct combination of parameters. Here's the one that...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Migrate WSUS from 2003 to 2012 R2 core
I was able to complete this project by installing SQL Express 2014 on the server (see here for that discussion). I was then able to connect to the database using SSMS on another computer in order to...
View ArticleMigrate WSUS from 2003 to 2012 R2 core
We have WSUS 3.2 running on Windows Server 2003 (with SP2), and we're looking to migrate to Windows Server Core 2012 R2. I've done a fair amount of internet searching, and all of the results I found...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for how to update SQL Server 2008 to 10.50?
You downloaded the wrong thing. What you tried to install was service pack 1 for SQL Server 2008 R2. Upgrading from 2008 to 2008 R2 isn't a service pack. It's a completely different version - like...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for predictable network interface names in systemd
This documentation might help a little bit. See the section under "What precisely has changed in v197?". Yes, I realize this is of somewhat limited value, but it might give you an avenue for further...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for What happens when a browser does not support SNI
I just tested it using IE 4.0 running on Windows NT 4 Workstation. My website, hosted at http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/, loads perfectly. I'm not sure if their hosting meets the criteria above,...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for How can I check that all files on copied...
If you really want to check every single file, here's a way to accomplish it with Powershell:Get-FileHash -Algorithm MD5 -Path (Get-ChildItem "C\*.*" -Recurse) | Export-Csv \\someplace\hashes.csvThis...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Importing Virtualbox to vsphere 6
Your best option is probably to just use the VMware vCenter Converter, and treat your Virtualbox guest as if it were a physical machine.
View ArticleCan SQL Express be installed on Server Core?
I've been searching nearly an hour for a definitive answer and I've come up empty so far. Can anyone confirm, one way or another, whether SQL Express (version 2012 or later) can be installed on Windows...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for What does the netmask in an IP address actually...
The network mask is not part of the address. It defines how big your neighborhood is, as in Mikhail Khirgiy's example. With a /8 mask, Bob knows everyone in New York personally. He can hand-deliver a...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Microsoft Windows - Install Updates And Restart...
I see this is an older question, but it's now possible to install updates and then reboot using Powershell. Specifically, you need to download and install the Windows Update PowerShell Module. Then,...
View ArticleSQL Server with MSA cannot write to UNC share
I have SQL Server 2012 running in an Active Directory Domain environment. I set up a Managed Service Account for the SQL services to run under, as per this document. Since my domain functional level is...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Burge for Connect our SQL Server to a remote SQL Server
What you're talking about is called database replication. If you search that term, you can find some setup guides. There are third-party tools for for replication, but I think you can also set it up in...
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