If you are in front of a system where there is a SQL Express installed and you don’t have the sa password for login in, you’re basically stuck, because you have no way to log in and if you login as Windows user you have no rights over the instance and all commands will get […]
How to remove Exchange Server from your Domain
Today’s post will show how to remove Exchange server from your domain. I’m simulating it on my lab environment where I’m running single Microsoft Exchange 2013 server. For organizations moving to Office 365, the best way to seamlessly migrate, is to go hybrid. First you move all mailboxes and then you decomission your Exchange server. […]
This VM will Expire after 7 days – VMware Workstation
One of the cool features of VMware Workstation is protecting VMs. This can be a VM which has limited lifetime. You can use those VMs for example for student’s class or hand it to prospects or customers without worrying that they’ll continue using those VMs after certain period. The use cases are multiple as you can […]
How-to Set an ESXi Scratch Partition from the vSphere Web Client
Instalable versions of ESXi has a scratch partition created during the installation process. It’s a 4GB VFAT scratch partition which is created during the autoconfiguratio phase. What’s scratch partition used for? It’s used for vm-support files (when you creating a support bundle). If a scratch partition is not set up, you might want to configure […]
How-to Protect Your Blog from Brute Force Attacks
If you’re one of our readers who has also a blog, then you might be interested in following tip allowing you to be safer. It happened to my server few months back and the folks at Hostcolor did alert me about my high CPU utilization and they did add a second layer of security for me. It’s […]
How to Install Photon OS In VMware vSphere
VMware Photon is a new project started this year within VMware, which shall allow faster deployment of containerized applications from developer’s desktops (Workstation, Fusion) to the production environment (vSphere). It is a minimalist Linux distribution allowing to install container runtime environment which is able to run those “containerized apps”, those apps that are pre-packaged and pre-configured […]
Reduce Windows 10 size With Built-in App Called CompactOS – The Steps
It’s possible to Reduce Windows 10 size on a c: drive, but the mechanism has to be activated manually. It can safe few gigs of storage on your c: drive if you have space problems. The app is called CompactOS (command line utility) and contrary to WinBoot from W8.1, it can be configured (by simply running from command […]
How to Create Multiboot USB Stick With Veeam Recovery ISOs for Different Systems
We have been using YUMI already for creating multiboot USB in my post here. The reason I’m writing this post is because by using YUMI is possible to Create Multiboot USB Stick With Veeam Recovery ISOs. As you know Veeam Endpoint Backup (VEB) adds all drivers which are necessary to recover your system, and so if […]
Storage performance troubleshooting with ESXTOP [Guide]
As you know ESXTOP is an utility bundled with ESXi allowing to monitor/troubleshoot performance of network, CPU or storage. This post is about storage performance troubleshooting with ESXTOP. Se will focus on storage as many times the storage is the main problem of latency. A weakest performance element in the whole chain. VMs performs slowly, […]
How-to Uninstall Windows 10 Apps With Powershell
Built-in apps which are bundled with Windows 10 are sitting on freshly installed system. You can notice those apps in case you have created a multiple local users on the system because each time you have created new user, when the user logs on for the first time Windows 10 starts to install apps for that […]
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