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Microsoft Ignite 2017: Journey of an IT Guy – Episode 1
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening fellow blog readers, IT admins, DEVs and Intertech enthusiast! Are you or any of your fine fellow IT experts excited and prepped to attend the Microsoft Ignite…
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SCOM 2016 – Linux Agent Deployment “Signed certificate verification operation was not successful”
Today, while trying to add my linux servers to my new SCOM 2016 environment, I ran into an interesting issue. When deploying the agent to my CentOS 6.8 server, all was going fine,…
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DPM, Windows Server Backup and “The backup storage location is invalid” error..
While working with DPM, I came across an issue, where my internal backup of the DPM server, kept failing with “DPM cannot create a backup because Windows Server Backup (WSB) on the protected…
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Bulk remove non-English Management Packs from OpsMgr 2012R2
I’ve been taking some time to learn some of the System Center tools, and recently I’ve installed an Operations Manager (SCOM) instance to use for monitoring in my environment. Being the numb-skull I…
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Now running on Google Domains!
So, yesterday I took a plunge and migrated my primary domain cbudde.com to google domains. In case you’re not familiar with this service, it’s googles new offering into website registrar management. You can…
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Add or Remove E-mail Aliases in On-Premises Active Directory – Office 365
If you are synchronising your Office 365 account with your on-premises Active Directory environment, you will know that you cannot edit exchange user properties using the Office 365 administrator portal. If you try,…
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How to perform manual sync with the new Azure AD Connect.
On occasion, it may be required of you to force a sync between your local AD environment and your MS Azure / Office 365 environment. By default, this value is about 3 hours.…
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Installing VMware Tools the right way on CentOS 6.7!
For CentOS, I recommend following the VMware Tools Installation Guide for Operating System Specific Packages to get your VMware Tools instead of just running it from vSphere Client. Why you ask? Well, because…
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Enable the Server Graphic Shell on Server 2016 TP2
So back in early May 2015, (I know, like it was sooo long ago..) during the MS Ignite Conference, Microsoft released Technical Preview 2 for Server 2016. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-technical-preview The installation, regardless of what…
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Setting the default domain for vCenter SSO
vCenter Single Sign by default requires the user to specify the domain when they pass their username during authenticate with vCenter. For Example : MYDOMAIN\USER1 or USER1@MYDOMAIN.COM You can eliminate the need to…