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I hope this helps someone, this took me 4 hours to figure out! Steps: create a new resource group in the source subscription create a new storage account inside this resource group click on the VM you want to restore, and click on the backup blade, choose restore vm along the top and give the […]

Hi All, I have had this issue many times where my iPhone friends are not receiving the MMS photos I have been sending. The error message is “The image file x.jpg is not supported and was deleted.” This is with both users using the carrier FiDO in Canada. The issue turned out to be a […]

Hi all,   I am writing this post because I was unable to find this information anywhere on the internet, and people likely want some help with the order of placing the batteries and cables into these empty units bought used. Here are the steps in order!1. tape the first two batteries together and attach […]

I just found this out, this will help soooo many people! To shut down a remote computer when you are using Remote Desktop, press CTRL+ALT+END, and then click Shutdown.   If you appreciate this information, please LIKE the Facebook CDNHost.net page, thanks! https://www.facebook.com/CDNhost/  

Hi all, I recently had to block password protected office and zipfiles on Exchange servers. The process is below: Exchange administrators can create transport rules by going to Exchange Admin Center > Mail flow > Rules. You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. After you start to create a new […]

If someone accidentally installed RDP session host on a server which is only going to be administered via RDP, or your license server is broken, this will help you!   n order to fix this issue you must login to a workstation as a domain administrator. open regedit as administrator. click connect to remote registry […]

This has been tested on Exchange 2010 SP2 ru7 to Exchange 2013 cu11, and also Office 365 cloud cutover migrations that sit stalled for hours/days on “Completing” Issue: Jobs are stuck in RelinquishedWlmStalled or Reliquished status Solution: I had to deal with this issue today with migrations from e2010 to E2013cu11. after messing around all […]

Steps are required.   1. download VMWare CLI https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VCLI550&productId=352 2. Download check_megaraid_sas @ http://www.techno-obscura.com/~delgado/code/check_megaraid_sas a change has to be made in the script to make it report correctly: on line 144, change if ( m/Size\s*:\s*((\d+\.?\d*)\s*(MB|GB|TB))/ ) { to if ( m/^Size\s*:\s*((\d+\.?\d*)\s*(MB|GB|TB))/ ) { Copy both MegaCli and check_megaraid_sas to your vmware host copy MegaCli /usr/bin/ chmod […]

We recently uncovered that there are throttling rules on all inbound connectors except “your organization’s mail server”. In order to resolve the issue where messages will queue up on the sender side due to EOP with message Deferred: 451 4.7.500 Server busy. Please try again later from [x.x.x.x ]. (AS780082)where x.x.x.x is the IP of […]

comment ‘#’ the option under check_dynamic_reverse_dns in /etc/magicspam/control/rules.enabled and /etc/magicspam/control/rules.default Wish this page existed before!   -Mike

Many notebooks including the Dell XPS 13 now have 4k displays, ever since I bought this notebook I noticed issues when I RDP’d into my servers or home laptop with the mouse behaving very wierdly. The mouse would rapidly switch from guest to host mode when trying to control some windows VMs, at first I thought it […]

This link is a life saver for anyone who uses Veeam or migrates servers from one IP range or site to another and needs servers to work on the other end.   https://blog.blksthl.com/2013/03/18/fix-the-trust-relationship-between-this-workstation-and-the-primary-domain-failed/

Posted in: Networks Tags: 5 Apr2006 Sometimes we need to connect two or more geographically distrubuted ethernet networks to one broadcast domain. There can be two different office networks of some company which uses smb protocol partially based on broadcast network messages. Another example of such situation is computer cafes: a couple of computer cafes can […]

Ever been in a situation where you have a remotely hosed virtual machine and you want to clone it to your local vCenter cluster?   Just about all V2V migrations are cold migrations, which require that the source system be powered off during the conversion process. It is, however, possible to perform a hot migration […]

Hard to find this info, so I figured I would help everyone out!   With the configuration & error stating that it can see the slave controller and not the primary controller what you can do is to swap the controllers and put the slave(right side of the unit if looking at the MD3000i from […]

using arp to find out the IP of a foreign network device! Install Wireshark on the laptop, and ensure it’s monitoring the Ethernet adapter. set the ethernet card temporarily on your laptop at 192.168.1.2/16 Plug directly into the ethernet jack on your laptop, the device’s mgmt port. if you don’t get a link light then […]

Let’s do a quick comparison.   Category BlackBerry Priv Note 5 OS Android 5.1.1 Android 5.1.1 CPU/GPU Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 hexa-core Adreno 418 GPU Samsung Exynos 7420 octa-core Mali-T760MP8 GPU Display 5.43-inch curved AMOLED 2560×1440 (540 ppi) 5.7-inch SuperAMOLED 2560×1440 (518 ppi) Corning Gorilla Glass 4 Battery 3410 mAh 3000 mAh Removable battery No No […]

Many of you have likely had the same issue as I ran into, you have a remote server  in a remote datacenter with only DRAC6 access and no way to access the RAID card without a reboot. Well, those days are gone! I have discovered  the path to get into the RAID card and do […]

When HA cluster is first created the VMs are configured with cluster default settings concerning the VM restart priority, host isolation response, and VM monitoring. But it can be changed, and you can specify specific behavior for each virtual machine. You can for example change this settings for some high priority VMs, like your domain controller VMs […]

Introduction Rsync, which stands for “remote sync”, is a remote and local file synchronization tool. It uses an algorithm that minimizes the amount of data copied by only moving the portions of files that have changed. In this guide, we will cover the basic usage of this powerful utility. We will be using an Ubuntu […]