A small sample of my work and shared notes
I have always been a fan of DeDuplication, but other than an Ubuntu based BackupPC, haven’t taken advantage of it. Now that it’s available in Windows 2012, I figured I should give it a good shot for Full VM Backups. Continue reading Veeam Backup And Replication Free Edition with Windows 2012 DeDuplication
I have an ESXi VMWare server that has had a couple of purple screens now. Unfortunately, the default is to sit there and wait for some user interaction. This happens to require knowing about it, then a 30 minute drive Continue reading Automatically Reboot VMWare ESXi Exception 14 Purple Screen
Just because you might not be on it all the time, doesn’t mean you want it to automatically lock. Unfortunately the option to disable the screen lock is not available by default. The fix is to simply add the option Continue reading Disable Windows 2012 Server Screen Lock
The WINSXS folder on Windows 2008 and Windows 7 tends to get a little out of hand. While hard drives are larger than they used to be, it doesn’t mean you want to have 30GB or so of data in Continue reading Cleaning out a Windows 7 or 2008 WINSXS Folder
Lets say you have a couple hundred servers to look over and after a “patch Tuesday” you know your WSUS server has already sent out the updates and each computer has installed it. Now you need to know who has Continue reading How to Find Windows Computers or Servers With a Reboot Pending