The ramblings of a computer geek
PROBLEM: In VSphere client, click on “Plug-ins” then click on “Download and Install” alongside the “Vmware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Extensions” when prompted run the installer. If you get the prompt saying that: “VMware Vsphere Client Version 5.5 needs to be installed before Vmware VCenter Site Recovery Manager can be installed.” you need to do […]
More...We purchased some new servers for a new cluster and wanted to move from ESX 4.1 to ESX 5.5. This means going from ESX to ESXi which removes the service console and some settings need to be different. This will show you how to configure the first four NICs of the server into a 4 […]
More...You can do this with: Then in the commands.txt file you just put in the commands that you wish to run within the session. This has been tested on Linux.
More...This was an interesting one, I was trying to download a IOS image to a switch but the connection was being denied. It turned out the connection was coming from a VLAN interface on the switch that did not have access to the TFTP server. You can force the VLAN interface used with this command: […]
More...With the prevalence of mobile devices this is becoming more of a problem, you have a user who comes in every day and swears blind nothing has the wrong password, but something is locking them out. Here is how to fix it: Firstly you must ensure that you are logging the stuff correctly on your […]
More...PROBLEM: You can’t checkout a file because it says it is “locked by another user” or is “locked by <USERNAME>”, but from the SharePoint UI you can’t see who has it locked out or you can’t see that it has been locked out at all. SOLUTION: This is a big problem with SharePoint since 2003, […]
More...We found that the metadata columns which use the term store, end up showing empty for all users apart from the Site Administrators. To fix this you need to grant privileges to the users in this list. To do this navigate to: http://intranet/Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/AllItems.aspx Click on “List”->”List Settings” then click on “Permissions for this list.” Add […]
More...In our case, we were needing to remove some licences from some users, as we had an educational licence, the names of the service plans and licenses were a bit different. So we had two ways of doing it: 1 was just to remove the service plans we didn’t need. And the second was to […]
More...Problem: We had this conundrum, the search results were showing as blank when searching in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 but this was only for files and items, not for people that returned results fine. After checking the crawler and finding no errors and able to search within the index and finding items I came to the […]
More...Okay here’s a weird one, we had two identical clusters of firewalls running: ASA IOS: 9.0(2) ASDM: 7.1(2) One of the firewall clusters you could access https:// to get to the ASDM with no problem, the other one, you access you get page cannot be displayed with some error about SSL not working. Firstly I […]
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