VMware PVSCSI Driver in Windows Server (2016) Have you ever seen this error when trying to install Windows to a VM? It’s probably because the Paravirtual SCSI driver is not loaded. Windows doesn’t contain this driver, so it’s necessary to insert and install it at boot of the ISO. In Read more…
Enabling the disk performance counters on the newer Windows Server operating systems can be easily forgotten about, but it can provide some really good info in the task manager which I find myself missing on servers that do not have this enabled. It’s really just one command. In an elevated Read more…
Running this script in the PowerShell ISE will give you a nice output comparing the server you’re running it on with the other connection members in the replication group(s) it belongs to. You will see “warnings” highlighted in yellow and “errors” highlighted in red. Since this was ran in a Read more…
Enable Shadow Copies (Enable Previous Versions) Click Start , point to Administrative Tools , and then click Computer Management . In the console tree, right-click Shared Folders , click All Tasks , and then click Configure Shadow Copies . The window that opens will look something like this, displaying all of your local disks: In Select a volume , click the volume Read more…
Use Robocopy to Preseed Files for DFS Replication I’ll write this here first, since it’s important: The folder in which you are robo-copying (ex c:\test) must not exist on the destination server (ex. f:\test). If you create the folder manually on the destination server, the file-hashes will not match and DFSr will Read more…
Hi. It’s me. You are trying to upgrade a server but there are people logged in. You want to tell them all that you’ll be doing work, so you need to send a message… It’s easy, but you’ll write it down anyways. Open CMD.. Type msg * Read more…
My computer is on a domain. I wanted to enable RDP access so I could work remotely, however in doing that, I’m letting my colleagues and others in my organization log in to my PC, as well as potentially allowing an intruder to log in. There are options to disallow Read more…
When you migrate a user from a workgroup/local environment to an Active Directory domain, the user experience is always an immediate shock. This is because the user will normally lose all their settings and files under the new account. Of course, fearless IT people will be able to get everything Read more…
Sure, there are many ways to make a copy of an OS or VM and spin it up in another instance. But here is the proper way… with vSphere at least. I’m assuming you already have basic knowledge of templating and wiping the system’s unique identifiers (sysprep for windows, Read more…
I just had to expand the size of one of our CSV’s without much notice. I wasn’t prepared for this, but I knew two things: The iSCSI LUN had to grow The Virtual Disk inside Windows also had to grow. Our Hyper-V cluster contains three virtual disks: Volume1, Quorum Witness, Read more…