At my company we have a web filtering solution (McAfee Web Protection) where we use Active Directory groups assigned to specific web filtering policies. Even though these groups are not supposed to have duplicate user accounts, over time, with multiple people administering them, that is exactly what has occurred. I needed a quick way to compare…
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Are you receiving the following error (or similar) when attempting to deploy a VMware template in vSphere / vCenter? PROBLEM: Clone virtual machine Customization of the guest operating system ‘windows7Server64Guest’ is not supported in this configuration. Microsoft Vista (TM) and Linux guests with Logical Volume Manager are supported only for recent ESX host and VMware…
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If you break permission inheritance on your SQL backup folder, and if you have a maintenance plan that uses subfolders to backup your databases by name, you could render your Maintenance Cleanup Task inoperable. If you encounter this problem, you probably noticed that the cleanup task appears to run successfully, but in reality it doesn’t…
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Updated December 30, 2016 Our craft beer credo: No point in wasting our time or yours on a nasty grog. The Roo only raves what it craves. — This post contains a refined list of craft beers that has The Roo raving. And this list will be updated when new rave-worthy beers are discovered. Beers…
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Southern Tier is a craft beer brand I find myself liking more and more with each new beer that I try. Just as a brief aside, their 2XMAS seasonal Christmas-time brew is to die for. Okay, that’s a bit hyperbolic, but trust me, if you like a good spicy beer to keep you warm during…
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Using a VMware template, I recently deployed the 9th Windows 2012 Remote Desktop Services server in our RDS collection. After adding the new host server to the collection and attempting to launch a RemoteApp session, I received the following error: RemoteApp Disconnected The remote session was disconnected because there are no Remote Desktop License Servers…
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This is a mildly amusing tale about the time my car wouldn’t start when parked on a steep hill. So I live in a hilly area, and my front yard is the neighborhood sledding destination in the winter. Naturally my driveway is also quite steep, which makes for some fun (not) shoveling. But this story…
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Did you know that you can apply custom CSS code to individual WordPress pages? It’s a nifty little trick to help you personalize your WordPress theme. On my photography blog, I wanted to have a custom header background image with a pattern overlay for a specific page (“The Street Collection“). The theme I’m using does…
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