Squishnet

In some of the lab testing I do I frequently don’t have all the required network or storage redundancies that vSphere wants to satisfy HA.  Because of this I end up with the yellow warning triangle on the hosts.  No big deal, however if I’m doing testing and want to be alerted to any issues [...]

I’ve been backing up my important data on my QNAP using a couple different methods including synchronizing with another storage unit, Vmware VDR and the good old fashioned external drive. I figured it was time to get a better method figured out. After doing some research I decided to use Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3) [...]

If you are using MS SQL Express for your vcenter or web development project, you may want to automate the backup of your databases.  Unlike the full SQL Server, SQL Express doesn’t have the ability to schedule database backups or maintenance directly.  However, this can be accomplished easily if you have SQL Server Management Studio installed.  I have [...]

So anyone who has had the fun task of support Microsoft Vista in a domain environment has seen plenty of fun things.  For us the biggest headache was when installing printers.  We use a vbs script to install printers at login.  Everytime this occurs on Vista we are prompted to download and install the driver.  [...]