CarlC Computer Tips, Tricks, and Support
I’ve reviewed the original “Veeam Endpoint Backup” and found some limitations, now Veeam has killed off the name of “Endpoint” and changed it to a free/paid version called “Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE” [must get the “free” in all caps since Veeam called it that]. In my previous rant, err, complaint, the issue […]
I’m running into more cases of people needed to talk to Windows Active Directory to allow valid users to login to the Sonicwall via the SSL-VPN client. Select the [Configure LDAP…] button. Insert the NAME [FQDN] or Local IP address of the AD Server. For the “Give login name/location in tree”, the […]
This is a minor review of Veeam’s new Endpoint Backup from my testing/usage. I’ve almost always used Windows Backup for all my Windows Servers [2003, 2008 R2, 2012 R2] backups. The best thing about Windows Backup is you have to create the recovery DVD [yes, but it’s reliable and works!] along with giving the […]
Well, I can’t blame VMware, the new version of conversion tools will not convert Windows 2000 to a VM correctly. Instead of fighting with that, I found a simpler way to do this. The Windows 2000 server I was virtualizing is of the 32 bit variety and had a USB port on it. So, […]
Over the last few weeks, I needed to upgrade our VMware vSphere 4.1 cluster which had ESX 4.1 servers to vSphere 5.1. Trouble was, there really was not a “here’s the order to do this in” without trying to read thorough many Terrabytes of VMware documentation. So, here’s what I did and it worked for […]
Had a customer with Citrix XenServer 6 and a few Virtual Machines [VMs] running. The VMs were windows based and we wanted to move them to VMware Workstation 9. I found the easiest way to do this was: 1) Setup an intermediate Windows based share to put the “converted” VM onto. This can be […]