I have a personal account that I use at Outlook.com along with some other accounts that connect via Exchange. So I use Outlook 2010 for my main email program. Every so often, though I would get the error 0x80048051 when checking my email and no email from Outlook.com would show up. The solution involves Microsoft […]
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Browser Change Could Impact all Cisco WebEx Customers
As you may or may not know Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have been discussing disabling browser plugins by default. The WebEx client on both Windows and Mac runs off of a small browser plugin. It was recently brought to my attention that Firefox 27 (Next week December 10th) and Chrome 32 (est. Jan 10th) […]
VMware VSAN – Many SAS or Less SATA?
Staying on the VSAN topic, another great topic of discussion is whether to use many higher speed SAS drives or less SATA drives that have a greater capacity? The answer here is the typical “it depends”. A lot has to do with the workload you’re planning on running in the VSAN Disk Group and how […]
Great Resource for VMware NSX
Here is a great resource for NSX. The site Hypervizor.com by Hany Michael, a Consulting Architect at VMware. One of his recent posts covers the architecture of NSX v6.0. He also has some great videos on walking through the process of deploying and configuring the different NSX components. You can follow Hany on twitter @hany_michael. […]
Celebrating 15 Years of VMware
You might know that VMware is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. You might even know that VMware now has over 13,800 employees and 500,000 customers. But did you know that our headquarters consumes more than 12,000 pounds of coffee and 19,000 pounds of M&Ms every year? VMware has […]
VMware vSphere v5.5 Hardening Guide
The Hardening Guide for vSphere v5.5 has been released and is now available here. If you are not familiar with the vSphere Hardening Guides, they can be used to help secure the majority of your VMware environment. It will not only help to ensure that your Virtual Machines are secure, but also the ESXi Hosts, […]
EMC – How to Start Analyzer in Unisphere
This lesson shows how to start EMC analyzer within Unisphere. Log into Unisphere, Select the System The IP of the CLARiiON storage processor (SP) must be used to initiate/start Unisphere. Select the S/N needed from the list (if more then one is managed by Unisphere). Enable Statistics Logging Go to the properties of the VNX/CLARiiON […]
Changing the Color Theme for Outlook 2013
Thanks to Steve Laskers’ MSDN Blog for the below how-to! If you’ve upgraded to Outlook 2013 and are struggling with the new softer look, and missing the older higher contrast look in the reading view, you may be wondering about changing the themes. Outlook does have a few themes that can be changed, however they really […]
Using Powershell to get Microsoft Exchange Object Counts
In case you might need to get an object count for your Microsoft Exchange environment, run this Powershell command, which will export the details to a CSV file (located in C:\). Get-MailboxStatistics –Server Exchange-Server-Name | Export-CSV C:\Exchange_ObjCount.csv
How Can I Get a Receipt for a Previous iTunes Purchase?
1. Launch iTunes 2. Click on iTunes Store 3. Click on your email address on the upper left hand corner 4. Click Account from the drop-down menu 5. Enter your password for your iTunes account 6. Scroll down to Purchase History and click “See All” 7. Find your “receipt” for the music/apps/etc you downloaded by clicking […]