I recently assisted a client that was having logon issues with their Office 365 services. The particular problem that the client was encountering was that their account was completely locked out, due to too many failed logon attempts. Usually, the fix for this issue is to issue a password reset
TechPulse 2013
Good morning, everyone! It’s a cloudy, yet warm morning here in St. Paul, Minnesota! I will be at the River Centre in St. Paul today, covering this year’s TechPulse 2013 event! TechPulse is a technology based conference that is held annually in St. Paul, covering the latest IT technologies for
Server 2003 Domain Issues and DNS Address Interference
Recently, I had to perform some repair work on a Windows Server 2003-based domain network, managing around 25 Windows 7 and 3 Vista computers. The client reported that they were having some intermittent issues with the domain, as they were having troubles with mapped network drives being inaccessible and that
vSphere 5.0: Setting Up the Virtual Machine Environment
Setting up the virtual machine environment in ESXi 5.0 is fairly straight forward. Like ESXi 4.0, ESXi 5.0 is managed remotely via the vSphere 5.0 hypervisor client. I’ve assigned a static IP address to the whitebox ESXi. Using the assigned IP address and the user credentials created in the ESXi
Installing ESXi 5.0
After a busy week, I managed to find some time to install ESXi 5.0 on the whitebox server that I recently finished constructing. For those looking to try out ESXi 5.0, a non-commercial license is freely available for download on VMware’s website. You can find it here: Download VMware vSphere
Building a ESXi 5.0 Whitebox Server
For some time, I’ve been contemplating on building a new whitebox server for ESXi 5.0, as I have always been interested in virtualization. I built a ESXi 4.2 whitebox server last summer, in which I was able to get myself familiarized with ESXi and the VMware vSphere Hypervisor client. There