Add The ‘Group Policy Management Console’
KB ID 0001615 Problem On a Domain Controller you will get Group Policy Management, (by default) listed under administrative tools. But if you have a ‘Management Server’ of a ‘Jump Box’, that you want to install the tool onto, (without making it a domain controller!) Then do the following; Option 1: Install GPMC with Powershell This is the quickest and simplest option! Open a PowerShell Windows and execute the...
Veeam: ‘Error Storage Not Initialized’
KB ID 0001614 Problem I got tasked with looking at a failover plan for a customer recently, but I noticed their replications were failing, two of the VMs in the replication job were repeatedly failing with; Error: Storage not initialized Solution This took a while to get to the bottom of! Essentially the problem was the ‘Metadata’ for these two VMs was either corrupt or could not be written to. So to fix the problem, the...
Windows Group Policy – Disable The Local Windows Firewall
KB ID 0001090 Problem I’ve got nothing against the Windows firewall, it’s certainly a lot easier to manage now than it was back in the XP SP2 days. But I find a lot of clients still just ‘want it gone’ and, providing they have a decent corporate firewall in front of them that’s fair enough. Solution 1. On a domain controller or a client running the remote administration tools > Windows Key+R >...
Network Profile Switches from ‘Private’ to ‘Public’
KB ID 0001613 Problem This popped up in the forums last night, if you have a Workgroup*, (non domain joined) machine, the profile of the network card keeps switching from Private to Public. *Note: A domain joined machine, automatically will set it’s network profile to ‘Domain’. Option 1: Set the Network Profile using Local Group Policy Hit Windows Ker + R to open Run prompt, and type gpedit.msc Navigate to Computer...
Exchange Exporting Mailboxes to PST Files
KB ID 0001360 Problem Applicable To: This procedure works on all versions of Exchange Newer than Exchange 2010 SP1 (update rollup 8). If your Exchange server is OLDER than that you will need to use the following link; Exchange 2007 / 2010 (Pre SP1)- Export Mailbox’s to PST files The following procedure exports a user mailbox to a PST file on a network share. Solution Note: Not Even ‘Exchange Organisation Administrators”...
PowerShell: Find Computers Last Logon Date
KB ID 0001612 Problem I had to find the last time a particular server had logged on for a client the other week, so we knew for sure it was dead! Solution The two commands you may need are; Locate Servers Last Login Time Get-ADComputer -Filter {OperatingSystem -Like ‘*SERVER’} -Properties lastlogondate,operatingsystem | Select name,laslogondate,operatingsystem Locate Clients Last Login Time Get-ADComputer -Filter...
Cant Add Repository to a Scale Out Backup Repository?
KB ID 0001611 Problem When adding repositories to a Veeam Scale Out Backup Repository you may see this error; Unable to add extent {Repository-Name} because it serves as the target for one or more job types which are not supported by a scale-out backup repository Selecting ‘Show jobs’ shows; Backup-Configuration-Job Solution If you didn’t already know, the Backup-Configuration-Job, is a backup of the Veeam database...
Deploy VMware Horizon View (Part 2)
KB ID 0001609 Back in part one we setup SQL and our Composer server, now we will deploy our VMware Horizon View Connection Server(s). Install VMware Horizon View Connection Server On a domain joined Windows server, download and launch the Connection Server installer. Accept the EULA > Next > Acept or change the install location > Next > Select Horizon ‘Standard’ Server > Next > Set a data recovery...
Deploy VMware Horizon View (Part 1)
KB ID 0001608 Note: You don’t need VMware Composer, or SQL, to use Horizon, but if you want to deploy ‘Composed’ pools then you will, (also if you want to maintain an events database), so I’ll cover this first. Below I’m going to create a database for Horizon Composer, and Horizon Events. Then I’ll install Horizon Composer. Horizon View SQL Installation Installing SQL is straight forward enough,...
Windows – Stop the Welcome to Internet Explorer from launching via GPO
KB ID 0000459 Problem If your’e logging on as a new user and Internet Explorer has not yet been ran, then it wants to run the “Setup Windows Internet Explorer Wizard”. On just one machine with one user that’s fine, but if you are logging in all over the place, with multiple credentials, this can get quite annoying. Also you might not want your domain users having to do this at all, for security reasons....