Tech Featured Tech - Upgrading Qumulo Core Qumulo is a modern alternative to the traditional Windows Server Failover Cluster SMB. It is a new and exciting platform that promises to make data management simpler and more efficient. We will be publishing a comprehensive review of Qumulo in the near future. In the meantime, we can show you
Tech Tech - WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux Some prerequisites: You must have Virtualisation Technology Enabled in your UEFI BIOS. Using Windows 10, I seemed to hit some issues, that when attempting to install I would hit the detailed exception 'Unspecified error'. Executing these two did resolve the issue. dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all
Tech Featured Tech - Resetting Windows Password - Editing SAM Database Here we go again... Day starts 'finds server that x person from years back built..' Eh?! Username & Password!? Lets check documentation! No username or password for that server was saved.... Shit. No, but seriously how to sort this? NOTE: I've written this guide alongside VMware
Tech Tech - VMware 8 - vCenter Root Password Expired Here we go use of my VCP. Tested on VMware vCenter 8! Ok, lets go and try and login to upgrade vCenter! No. We've all been here if you've ever used vCenter! Sodding root password has expired. So thankfully this is a nice job. Attempt to
Tech Featured Tech - HPE Nimble - All Red LEDs Ah! We're getting to some interesting stuff here! Bugger. Why are all the disks in the array red!?! Turns out that for some strange reason, there is a bug with the Nimble 'bug AS-116339' Not sure if this was just related to the version that we
Tech Featured Tech - Windows Server 2022 - Allowing ICMP (Ping) Blocked? Honorable Mention: Alistair M! Note: All this is done at your own risk! Ever had that typical issue when troubleshooting? Ah lets try and ping it! Pinging -.-.-.- with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics
Tech Tech - Windows Server - Random reboot on startup. Interesting one, recently been dealing with a couple of large Windows Servers that for some reason following a reboot, didn't want to start. Strange behavior I'd see that Windows would attempt to start but pre-login would reboot. Finally I ended up in recovery mode. Note: All
Tech Tech - Powershell - Export Users Note: All this is done at your own risk. Little snippet that someone asked me to do for them as they were struggling. Normally I'd use something like: Get-ADUser -Filter 'DisplayName -eq "NAME"' I was asked to output the phone numbers from ALL users
