Use PowerShell to Upload Information to SharePoint Online By Dataprise | February 28, 2017 | Comments Off on Use PowerShell to Upload Information to SharePoint Online One of my favorite uses of SharePoint is to keep track of information that spans multiple departments, affecting each of us in different ways. I haven’t found a better tool that creates a central place where everyone can stay on the same page. When we get a new sales order, most of that information needs… Read More
The OTHER way of recovering from VMware ESXi Split Brain By Stephanie Hamrick | February 28, 2017 | Comments Off on The OTHER way of recovering from VMware ESXi Split Brain Split brain in ESXi occurs when a member of an ESXi HA cluster is unable to determine their HA Master/Slave role. Basically, the HA Master election process fails. The most common scenario for this is where one member of a 2 HA cluster node loses its mind and can’t communicate with the other, fully functional,… Read More
Assign a Static IP Address to the VMware vSphere Replication Appliance By Dataprise | February 24, 2017 | Comments Off on Assign a Static IP Address to the VMware vSphere Replication Appliance After deploying a vSphere Replication Appliance it will attempt to obtain a DHCP address. If there’s no DHCP server available to facilitate the request, the following error is displayed: NO NETWORKING DETECTED. PLEASE LOGIN AND RUN THE COMMAND Here’s what we need to do: Open a console session Login as: root Default password is: vmware Run the… Read More
Hiding Drives in RDS Environment By Dataprise | February 22, 2017 | Comments Off on Hiding Drives in RDS Environment This is a common request we get from clients after deploying RDS. When a user creates an RDP session or launches a RemoteApp, by default, they can see the local drives of the Session Host server. If they can see it, they may even be able to access it. This could mean access to your… Read More
vSphere Replication Appliance VRM Service By Dataprise | February 14, 2017 | Comments Off on vSphere Replication Appliance VRM Service Issue: If you’ve recently deployed a vSphere Replication Appliance and you’re unable to get your VRM service started this might help. As you can see below this is a fresh deploy and our VRM service is stopped. You can attempt to start it however it you might experience that it’ll stop again after a few… Read More
Copying Files To and From a Cisco Router with SCP/SSH By Dataprise | February 8, 2017 | Comments Off on Copying Files To and From a Cisco Router with SCP/SSH Typically I am having to upload files a Cisco device across the Internet. Doing so, I found TFTP or evening having a TFTP server problematic. An easier solution is to have any standard SSH server (Linux, Unix) and copy the files to and from the server. To upload files to the server, I use WINSCP… Read More
Protect Organizational Units in Active Directory Domain from Deletion with PowerShell By Dataprise | February 7, 2017 | Comments Off on Protect Organizational Units in Active Directory Domain from Deletion with PowerShell We recently had a client take on a new hire, although I was confident in their ability in managing Active Directory I wanted to take an extra step in protecting Organizational units from deletion. I was sure that I could do this quickly using PowerShell instead of right-clicking each of our 80 odd OUs and… Read More