TT: Join VMware vCenter Server Appliance to Active Directory

This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to join a vCenter Appliance server to an existing Active Directory. The setup is pretty simple: When I first tried to join my vCenter Server Appliance to my Active Directory through the web interface, I was getting this type of error: “Cannot join domain, failed to open connection to [...]

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vSphere5: Remove iSCSI Target from shell

Today I had a little time to improve my vSphere Lab and I started by upgrading the iSCSI Storage (Openfiler). I migrated all my VM’s and then I shutdown the old iSCSI without removing the iSCSI targets for ESXi. It turned out that this was a big mistake because one of the ESXi server become [...]

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Exchange: Export a list with all distribution lists and members

This is a very useful script for exporting all your exchange distribution lists including all their containing members. 12345678910111213$totalObj = @() $temp = Get-DistributionGroup -ResultSize Unlimited |        ForEach-Object {                        [array]$mem = Get-DistributionGroupMember -id $_               [...]

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How to Activate Windows Server 2008/R2 Server Core

How to Activate Windows Server 2008/R2 Server Core 1.First, log on to the Server Core console. 2.If you haven’t keyed in the product key during setup, type: 3.Then after the first command is successful, type: Video supported by: Microsoft

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Windows 2008: RODC Administrative Role Separation

RODCs support local administration through a feature called administrative role separation. Every RODC maintains a local database of groups for specific administrative purposes. You can add a domain account to these local roles to enable support of a specific RODC. This can be done with Ddmgmt.exe command. To achive this there are some steps to [...]

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