October 27, 2012
Patching SharePoint is a two-step process. The updated binaries are first installed and then psconfig must be run to update the SharePoint databases. SBS 2008 uses Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and updates automatically run PSconfig when installed via Automatic Updates or Windows Server Update Services. SharePoint Foundation 2010 changes the method in which patches are [...]
September 22, 2012
This page is dedicated to the VMware posters which were created by Technical Marketing and have been released at VMworld and VMUGs around the world, this is a central place to find the latest versions of the PDF versions which can be used for reference or printed off as needed. VMware ESXi 5.1 Reference Poster [...]
February 28, 2012
Summary: Have you ever wondered how to quantify the benefits of virtualization to your management? If so, please consider using vBenchmark. vBenchmark measures the performance of a VMware virtualized infrastructure across three categories: – Efficiency: for example, how much physical RAM are you saving by using virtualization? – Operational Agility: [...]
September 14, 2011
Now that the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is available to the public, people want to test, use and play around with Microsofts new and shiny OS (Metro-Style). I have made a simple step-by-step guide on how to install it on a Mac running VMware Fusion. It’s quite easy, so let’s get on with it: [...]
August 29, 2011
Now that VMware has released their new vSphere 5 into the public, questions always come up on how to make a bootable vSphere 5 USB installation media. As of now there isn’t any official way of doing this if you are using a Microsoft, Apple or Linux GUI based OS. So I have made [...]
August 25, 2011
VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vSphere® 5 VMware vSphere 5 supports virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four times more powerful than previous versions – VMs can now be configured with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs. When combined with VMware vSphere 5′s enhanced High Availability, these gains in [...]
August 24, 2010
If you ever wanted to virtualize your Microsoft Windows computer or you get this error, you will often have problems with Windows Activation. If you can’t log on due to the following error, do the steps below: This copy of Windows must be activated before you can log on. You can actually get in by [...]
August 6, 2010
VMware ESX 4.1 (finally) supports USB device passthrough from an ESX or ESXi host to a virtual machine. Requirements USB device passthrough requires: Virtual hardware version 7 or higher A USB Arbitrator A USB controller A USB device or device hub Limitations The USB Controller has these limitations: USB controller hardware and modules that support USB 2.0 [...]
June 7, 2010
Only those network adapters that are appropriate for the virtual machine you are creating, are available configuration options in the Choose Networks window. Vlance — An emulated version of the AMD 79C970 PCnet32 LANCE NIC, an older 10 Mbps NIC with drivers available in most 32bit guest operating systems except Windows Vista and later. A virtual [...]
April 22, 2010
The VMware Support Toolbar gives you instant access to documentation, patches, live peer to peer chat and more. Currently supported browsers are, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. Go get it here -> http://www.vmwaretoolbar.com
