September 2014
cisco USB console driver
hello In the past i always used a com port console cable like you all know "the blue cisco console cable" Now that my laptop has no Com port anymore and only one USB port i had to use the Cisco USB console cable. you need a driver for this and looking on the internet i couldn't find it right away so here is the link to the driver so other don't have to look so long Cisco USB console [...]
MSExchange ActiveSync event 1008
Problems connecting a mobile device like ipad, iphone, android or BB OS 10 to exchange 2007, 2010 or 2013 ??? lately im running in this a lot and there is a simple solution. Make sure the user you try to use has "Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent" checked on the Active Directory user's permissions. 1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers 2. Go to "View" and make sure "Advanced Features" is checked, 3. Find the problematic user and [...]
vcenter 5.5 email alerts for all alarms
vSphere Email alerting In the past i was always modifying every alert with email notification. this takes a lot of time to do. So i went to look on the internet and few smart people out there already wrote this script! so I want to thank these people for there help and knowledge: Lauren Malhoit and Mehdi Kianpour The script that you can download here, is for vSphere 5.5. So keep in mind that you need other script if you [...]
Vendor Customized ESX images
When you install ESXi 5.x from vmware you don't have all the plug-ins or modules that a vendor customized ESX images has. Why you ask? well you might want to monitor your ESX host with HP insight manager, IBM System Director or other management software. Or want to update your drivers and firmware with update software of the vendor, with this customized images of the vendor yo don't need to install de additional plug-ins. here are some links to the vendors [...]
August 2014
Backup free vmware ESXi 5.x standalone server
hello some of my customers has stand alone servers running only 3 or 4 vm machines on it and ESXi host is installed with a free license key. Since these vm's needed to be backed up I tried 2 backup solutions: veeam 6 and backup exec 2014 first I tried backup exec 2014. it just wouldn't backup and de snapshot wasnt possible Second I tried veeam backup. most of the time this product works well for me, but I was [...]
LSI MegaRaid Storage Manager for IBM Serveraid systemx or bladecenter on vmware ESXi 5.x
Long tittle i know. sorry about that i wanted to share this with everybody cause it took me hours to get this working on IBM servers ive been reading a lot of blogs about this so i wanted to put my findings here you can use a management windows station or a vm on the esx host itself (windows 2003 or higher) first i did some preparations: enabled ssh on your ESXi host start CIM server on your ESXi host [...]
Exchange Server and rollups build numbers
Exchange Server Release dates Product name Build number Date Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 6.5.6944233 03 Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP1 6.5.7226 5/25/2004 Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 6.5.7638 10/19/2005 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 8.0.685.24 12/9/2006 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 8.0.685.25 12/9/2006 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 8.1.240.6 11/29/2007 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 8.2.176.2 8/24/2009 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP3 8.3.083.6 6/20/2010 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 14.0.639.21 11/9/2009 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 14.1.218.15 8/24/2010 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 [...]
HP SUM No default baseline found
I was updating an hp Server and had hard time adding a baseline. so i tought to share it with all. First, you must create baseline in "baseline library" Then, don't forget to go to "Nodes" menu and add this baseline in "general" menu then "inventory" this node, then "deploy" updates and finally i rebooted the server first before doing any update. close all programs and don't use Internet Explorer !! i ended up using Firefox to get all [...]
Update standalone ESX host
Update standalone ESX host If you have a client that just has 1 ESX host then you have to manually update your esx host since you don’t have any update manager or vcenter available Here are steps to update your esx host In this example im upgrading from esx 5.1 tot 5.5 u1 Shutdown all VM’s Put the esx host in maintenance mode Enable ssh access on your esx host Open http firewall port for outgoing traffic in Configuration – [...]
July 2014
SMTPSEND.DNS.NonExistentDomain
my customer ran into a problem that his exchange server just didn't receive any mail no more or couldn't send mail also. when i checked the mail queue i found the following error: 451 4.4.0 DNS query failed. The error was: SMTPSEND.DNS.NonExistentDomain; nonexistent domain after checking everything from connectors and exchange settings, I started to check just everything, and the first steps i always do is: are the TCP/ip config correct on your network card(s). turns out the DNS 2 entry [...]