IT's all in the wrist...

Thursday, 25 August 2011

The virtual machine is running in a monitor mode that is incompatible for Fault Tolerance

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1013428

Turn off the VM
Turn On Fault Tolerance
Power Virtual Machine on

vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance requires Virtual NIC enabled

Create a virtual Switch
Add a VMKernal
Allocate IP Address
Enable Fault Tolerance Logging

Download VMware vSphere 5 / MD5/SHA1 / Build Numbers

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0

Monday, 8 August 2011

Exchange 2003 and Mailbox Language

Scenario; your in another country and you check your email via OWA and for some reason the language within OWA and Outlook changes?

Fix, try this:

1. Open control panel, expand "Regional and language options","Regional Option", select "English" or your chosen language.

2. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International] = "AcceptLanguage"="en-GB"

3. log off and log on to your machine

4. Start, Run

Outlook /resetfoldernames

Exchange 2010 and Mailbox Language

PowerShell prompt;

Set-Mailbox -Identity "Joe Blogs" -Languages "en-GB"

Language Codes

Friday, 5 August 2011

VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update

As Citizen Smith would say ‘Power to the People!’

VMware has decided to double (x2) the vRam entitlements under its new licensing rules.

Does it go far enough?

http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/2011/08/vmware-vsphere-5-licensing-and-pricing-update.html

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Lync: July 2011 update

Lync Client 2010 (64bit)
kb 2571543
link Microsoft download

Lync Client 2010 (32bit)
kb 2571543
link Microsoft download

Lync Server 2010
kb 2493736
link Microsoft download

Lync 2010 Group Chat Server
kb 2571550
link Microsoft download

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Exchange 2010 - Manage Full Access Permissions

You need to give another user access to a mailbox?

Use the Manage Full Access Permission wizard to grant Full Access permissions to users or groups for a selected mailbox. You can also use this wizard to remove Full Access permissions from users or groups.

When you grant the Full Access permission to another user for a mailbox, that user will be able to log on to the mailbox and access its entire contents.

Find the mailbox in the EMC (Exchange Management Console)

Right click the mailbox and “Manage Full Access..”

Click Add and Find/Select the User/Group you want to give access to.

Click Manage and the permissions will be applied.

PowerShell is much quicker though.

Adding Permissions

Add-MailboxPermission -Identity "mailbox_you_need_access_to" -User "user_or_group_looking_access" -AccessRights Fullaccess -InheritanceType all

Removing Permissions

Remove-MailboxPermission -Identity "mailbox_you_need_access_to" -User "user_or_group_remove_access" -AccessRight FullAccess -InheritanceType All

Adding the Mailbox into Outlook

In Outlook 2007/10 Open your account Settings ..

Select your account and click Change

Choose the More Settings ..

Add the email Account that you want to access.

Click Ok, Next and Finish.

From Outlook Web App (OWA)

Right Click your name above the Inbox.

Select Open User’s Inbox ..

Enter the name of the mailbox you want to open; and click Ok.

OR

In Outlook Web App, go to Options

Manage, Another User

Find the user and Click Ok.

Saturday, 16 July 2011

Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 Removed from Download Center

Microsoft have discovered an issue impacting some customers who have installed Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 into their Exchange environment and as a result have removed SP1 RU4 from Download Center and recommend customers do not proceed with any planned deployments of SP1 RU4.

A small number of customers have reported when the Outlook client is used to move or copy a folder that subfolders and content for the moved folder are deleted.

For more information please visit.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/07/13/exchange-2010-sp1-ru4-removed-from-download-center.aspx

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Coming soon VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5)?

Whats new?

ESXi 5 host / 512 virtual machines / 160 logical CPUs / 2TB of RAM
32 vCPUs / 1TB of RAM per VM
VMFS-5 64TB (Thin Provision Stun / Space Reclaim)
Image Builder (custom esxi builds)
Auto Deploy (pxe boot and image deployment)
vCenter Virtual Appliance (Linux based virtual center)
vSphere Storage Appliance (local disk presented as NFS storage)