The ramblings of a computer geek
Upon booting the Dell PowerEdge R720 server with two Dell 6Gbps SAS HBAs that are installed and connected to a two drive Dell PowerVault TL4000 I got this error message Turns out this is a normal error. Page 25 of ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_dell_adapters/dell-sas-hba-6gbps_User’s%20Guide_en-us.pdf Basically because it is a tape HBA, the error is saying it cant be … Read more
You’ve just installed your new Exchange 2013 server but there is a mailbox already there with a default name e.g. “Mailbox Database 0100716264”, if you are like me you’ll want to get rid of that and create a nice new one in a more sensible location but if you try to delete it you’ll get … Read more
This was an issue when trying to setup a scheduled job in DPM, you can run reports but you can’t set an automatic report. Platform: System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 SQL Server installed locally with DPM 2012 R2 Problem: Error ID 3001:- Reporting Services Server cannot connect to the DPM database when configure … Read more
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 … Read 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 … Read 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.
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: … Read 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 … Read 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, … Read 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 … Read more