Configure the iSCSI Initiator on Windows 2008 R2 Server Core
0When you need to add additional storage to your Windows Core server, you usually shut it down and add the extra drive; for those that are using DAS (Direct Attached Storage), off course. Now its time to add that storage, but you run out of SATA/SAS slots on your server main board. In this kind of situations iSCSI comes to the rescue, because is a cheap and reliable technology; and let’s say you can’t afford a SAN. (more…)
How to configure Outlook Anywhere in Exchange Server 2010
0Sometimes you need to give e-mail access to some external clients that are not part of the domain. Well…you can trough POP3 or IMAP, because Exchange 2010 supports those protocols; but using them, the user will not benefit from all the Exchange features. Outlook Anywhere, previously known as RPC over HTTPS is a much better solution, and the user doesn’t have to know the e-mail server name, SMTP address and other technical stuff. All the user needs to know is the mail address and the password for that account. Everything else is automatically set up. (more…)
Upgrading VMware vCenter 4 to vCenter 5
0I know you are happy that you got the approval to upgrade your VMware Infrastructure, but before anything happens you need to upgrade your vCenter servers. In this guide I’m going to show how it’s done, and for the lab setup I have a vCenter Server 4.1 that is using a remote database hosted on a SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. All servers are part of a Windows domain. (more…)
Creating a new Child Domain in Windows Server 2008 R2
0There are times when you need to separate or delegate some parts of your Active Directory infrastructure, and the best way in those cases is to simply create a new child domain in the existing AD forest. This way you don’t have to create trusts between the two domains; trusts are created automatically and are created in a two-way direction, meaning domain A automatically trusts domain B, and vice versa. (more…)
Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012
0I was anxious for the latest version of VMM, so I taught I’ll give it a try here. For those of you that are still using VMM 2008 or 2008 R2 this new version will be so much different, especially on the GUI part. I never had time to really test it and see how it works, but I’ll tell you in a future post. (more…)
Installing server roles on Windows 2008 R2 Server Core
0You have your server core up and running, but now you need to install some roles, so the server won’t be useless. If you think you can connect using Server Manager from another server with a graphical interface and install the required role(s) remotely, you’ll have to think again, because you can’t; well…not now anyway, who knows maybe in the future. Roles on server core edition can be installed only from the console. (more…)
Publish VMware vShpere 5 Web Client Server with TMG 2010
0OK, you are using the VMware vSphere 5 Web Client Server for quite some time now in your network, but what about access from the internet. Wouldn’t be nice in case of an incident to just open a browser, type the address (public address) of your VMware vShpere Web Client Server and manage the infrastructure from here ? You can, and you should, since in the future version of vCenter the management will be only web-based; so I hear. (more…)
How to Add a VMware vCenter Server to SCVMM
0Sometimes you want to control different environments by using a single management console. This guide is one example, where I will show you how to manage a VMware vCenter Infrastructure using the SCVMM console. For this lab I will use a VMware vCenter 5 server (even tough this version is not supported by Microsoft but it works 
) with two ESX hosts, and a SCVMM server 2008 R2. All servers are part of the same domain. For a full list of supported vCenter servers editions click here. (more…)
Manage Hyper-V on Server Core from a remote console
0I know some of you out there have a couple of Hyper-V servers running on Server Core, and I congratulate you for that. Running Hyper-V on Server Core is the best thing, in my opinion; small footprint with high security and performance. But now you have a small problem…management, because you don’t have a console to manage Hyper-V on Server Core. A resolution to this problem is to use a remote connection, meaning you install the Hyper-V console on a Windows 7 computer or 2008 server and attach those Hyper-V servers to this console. (more…)
Migrating WSUS 3.0 from SQL Express to a remote SQL Server
0When you installed WSUS in your environment you selected the option to use the internal database. Time passed, your database has grown and now you want to put that WSUS database on a dedicated SQL server instance, but unfortunately there is no wizard to perform that migration. That’s why I created this post, to show you how to migrate that internal WSUS database to a dedicated instance of SQL server, and believe me, is not hard at all. (more…)
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