I just received my Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) from Amazon along with the one and only SanDisk Extreme Pro microSDHC card. Oh and I needed a HDMI to VGA adapter to connect to my Dell Console Switch 2160AS. Today’s project is a way to monitor my ESXi environment along with UNRAID and the ever-growing Plex […]
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Today I successfully migrated my UNRAID server to my new ESXi host. For a little background, I did this for 2 reasons. I want to get familiar with ESXi for work and the second reason was to consolidate my homelab. Figured after I scored two CSE-846 chassis off craigslist for $100 it’s a perfect time!
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Recently, I received an R710 with iDRAC 6 Express and decided to upgrade to the Enterprise version by purchasing it from eBay. Installing it was a breeze, and after making a minor adjustment in the iDRAC settings under Network/Security, I was able to ensure that the server utilized the dedicated port on the Enterprise card
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We started noticing an inconsistency between Active Directory computer numbers and System Center item counts. After some forum searching I discovered the issue. In SCCM go to Administration > Site Configuration > Sites > Click your site > then in the upper ribbon bar select Site Maintenance. (You can right click your site also). Here
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Been having issues trying to access my unraid shares with any VM I’ve created with Windows 10. I’ve tried tons of different options in the unraid community forum and none worked until I sutmbed upon this one. This should also work with non VMs and takes 5mins! Open up the registry editor on the machine you’re
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Recently noticed my SCCM server data drive was running out of space. Didn’t make sense as we haven’t added anything substantial lately or used USMT. Installed WinDirStat and found the culprit to be a 400GB .ldf log file from SCCM. The fix was pretty painless and takes less than 10mins. Backup the database Stop the database service Shrink
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Source: nguvu Last Revised 2 February 2017. Its critical for data integrity that the LSI HBA cards run in IT (Initiator Target) mode with the correct firmware revision matched to your FreeNAS software. It is possible to pay some vendors to perform the conversion for you at time of purchase however due to ongoing FreeNAS
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I recently had an issue I couldn’t figure out why client machines were taking forever to install configuration manger updates. I upgraded SCCM to version 1710 in the morning. 24 hours later come back to work and only see 178 machines that are compliant. This didn’t make sense as I can push out software within
SCCM – Client Upgrades Are Deploying Really Slow after Update Read More »
Script Download: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl To run it you need to open up command prompt and set the dir to the location of the youtube.dl script. I’m using Windows 10 and have it stored directly on the root of C: To download the video(s) you simply call the script and the link to the video / playlist.
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Received a new batch of laptops support UEFI. We’ve previously always used legacy PXE boot. Upon some googling we found a way to support both legacy and UEFI verse only supporting one or the other. This video by BranchCache Bobs shows a great tutorial on how to set it up and the differences between the
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