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You’ve just created couple of internal network switches in your Hyper-V Manager. Or you’ve just installed Docker for Windows and played with it a little. Now want to create NAT to allow your fresh new containers and/or virtual machines to have access to the Internet. Unfortunately there is no simple way to say which of the HNS Internal NIC adapters associated with proper vSwitch.

I’ve created PowerShell script to collect all important information about windows physical disks, partitions and volumes (logical disks) and its connections.

Sometimes you just need quickly deploy Android x86 server in your production environment using Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization. Now you can do it with Remix OS.

Installation to Hyper-V virtual machine is a bit tricky, but possible.

To make fully unattended install package you need to do following steps:

1. Download install package: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45015

2. Extract package content:
   CRM2015-Client-ENU-i386.exe /extract:c:\CRM_TEMP\1\2
   Do not remove sub folders 1 and 2 from the path, because we need it later

3. Create Redist folder in c:\CRM_TEMP. Do not put it in the sub folders

Recently I have encountered strange TMG behavior. I have permitted all RPC connections to Domain Controllers with system rule and disabled RPC Filter plus switched off “Enable strict RPC compliance” option. But my WMI requests and any other RPC traffic from TMG servers to internal resources was still blocked.

By default if you try to connect to any Hotmail e-mail with Boxer app (current version 2.0.0), which is a default in CyanogenOS 12s, it set up your account with IMAP and SMTP. Such setup prevents you from using your calendar and contacts. To fix this you should set up your connection with ActiveSync, but such option is not available by default. To set up it correctly you need to do following steps.

Today our network administrator applied latest patch to Cisco ASA. After that, any new connection with AnyConnect was starting update procedure, which failed every time even after reboot. I’ve uninstalled application and installed the newest version. After that any connection showed:

Repairing vpn adapter

To find all virtual machines created in a given period use the following SQL script:

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select ev.CREATE_TIME, EV.VM_NAME AS OldName  
from VPX_EVENT EV  
Where (EV.event_type = 'vim.event.VmDeployedEvent' OR EV.EVENT_TYPE = 'vim.event.VmCreatedEvent' OR EV.EVENT_TYPE = 'vim.event.VMClonedEvent') AND EV.CREATE_TIME >= cast('1.01.2013' AS DATETIME) AND EV.CREATE_TIME <= cast('31.01.2014' AS DATETIME)

Just a simple commands sequence with comments.

tdpsqlc.exe q tsm SOURCE_DB_NAME f /all

write down Database Object Name for needed full backup.

Recently I’ve got unexpected Windows server 2008 R2 reboot with some recovery reason, which is quite uninformative:

The process C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe (servername) has initiated the restart of computer servername on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Operating System: Recovery (Planned)
Reason Code: 0x80020002
Shutdown Type: restart
Comment:

Recently I have added new mounted volume to Microsoft cluster (lets say disk 3 mounted at m:\history), and tried to restore some old backup to it. But after I have run SQL script I’ve immediately got an SQL error: Only formatted files on which the cluster resource of the server has a dependency can be used. Either the disk resource containing the file is not present in the cluster group or the cluster resource of the SQL Server does not have a dependency on it.

Recently we have had a very confusing incident while trying to access one of our production virtual server through vSphere client. As linux servers in default installation redraw its console only on some event (some input or output), every time we open virtual machine with linux to see its console we need to press some key on keyboard. The problem is when you just opened console in the thick client user’s input focused on the toolbar. More precisely on its first button, which is “Shutdown”. When you press this button you’ll get confirmation dialog and input focus is on the “OK” button again. So if just opened server console, without clicking mouse anywhere, and quickly press space key two times, it will immediately shutdown you server, which will cause unplanned downtime to your production system. Very disappointing application design for industry’s leader solution. By the way, vSphere webclient doesn’t have such problems.

Recently we’ve got error installing driver on our Windows 2008 R2 server. It does not provide any specific error dialog, just constantly showing “Please wait while the application is preparing for the first use”. After you press Cancel, it gives you error message saying that installation could not be completed because other installation is in progress. The only diagnostic message in the Application log was EventID 1033 form MsiInstaller with message Installation success or error status: 1602 or Installation success or error status: 1618. Which obviously not helpful. Internet search revealed, that this message is quite common and can be caused by many things.

Recently I have stuck with error 1053 The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion while starting NetBackUP Client Service. But the error appeared much faster then 30 seconds which is actual service timeout, so the message was incorrect. The problem was that affected server was joined into MSCS to host SQL server group. So to backup MSSQL we run NetBackUP Client Service as domain user with rights to access SQL bases. To start service correctly domain user must have local server administrator right. After I’ve added this user to local administrator’s group error gone.