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10 February

Windows 2008 virtual machines lose their Gateway IP address after rebooting

Written by Marco

I was working on a Windows 2008 Server in an segmented network. This was a fresh new installation of Windows 2008. After a reboot the server was not reachable from another VLan. After some troubleshooting I found the problem....

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08 February

My first sponsor, Veeam!

Written by Marco

I am proud to announce my first blog sponsor, Veeam! I am using the Veeam Backup & Replication application at my home lab, company network and all of my customer sites. The software is simply awesome. It does what...

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19 January

Troubleshoot: Veeam Backup & Replication v6, Failed to index guest file system error

Written by Marco

Last week I was trouble shooting a problem that has appeared after I upgraded the Veeam Backup & Replication version 5 to version 6. Before the upgrade the backups where working correctly. No errors and everything was working accordantly....

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04 January

Device Manager is running in read-only mode

Written by Marco

Today I was creating a template for my VMware environment, when I was trying to change the graphical interface card I was running into some problems. This is the message the Device Manager is giving me. The result is...

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15 December

Holiday gift from Veeam: free Veeam Backup & Replication v6 licenses for your lab

Written by Marco

Just as last year, Veeam has a Christmas gift for us as nerds…. A free Veeam Backup & Replication v6 license for in our home lab!! Great… See http://www.veeam.com/news/holiday-gift-from-veeam-free-veeam-backup-and-replication-v6-licenses-for-your-lab155.html Holiday gift from Veeam: free Veeam Backup & Replication v6...

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17 November

VCP5 Study Notes

Written by Marco

These are my study notes for the VCP5 exam I am going to take in January 2012. I am already a VCP4 so I will take upgrade path, this path is only available until February 29 2012. How to...

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22 September

Outlook Best Practices

Written by Marco

Microsoft have created a video series about best practices in outlook. These tips might be handy sometime. Harry was fine using Outlook for email and meeting reminders. But new responsibilities in his job began to overwhelm his schedule and...

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18 September

Turn off the Metrostyle desktop in Windows 8

Written by Marco

I was testing the Developer Preview version of Windows 8 and I was not so happy about the new metro style desktop. I immediately was searching for an option to turn it off and put it back to the...

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10 September

How to solve HP P4000 Cache Status Corrupt

Written by Marco

I was working on an HP P4300 Lefthand SAN solution and trying to create a management group when I got an error about an nvram card that is not normal, see screenshot. When I run the All Tests at...

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18 July

VMware vSphere 5 links

Written by Marco

Eric Siebert created a list of links about all the VMware vSphere 5 content he could find. See vSphere-Land for the complete list. I’ve selected a few that are important to me or are worth reading. What’s New Whitepapers What’s New in VMware...

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