Feb 28, 2013
Optimal Network Adaptor Settings for VMXNET3 and Windows 2008 R2
There is an ongoing debate between many admins on what are the best settings for the VMXNET3 driver on Windows 2008 R2 settings and I suppose there will be many more. In this postI will attempt to point out some of the options and recommended settings for the VMXNET3 adaptor. Global Settings Receive Side Scaling (RSS) Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) resolves the single-processor bottleneck by allowing the... read more
Feb 20, 2013
How To Fix VMware Error IP address already assigned to another adapter
There has been times when you have deleted a NIC in VMware and to the eye it looks like it is gone but really it is still there and it rears it’s ugly head when you try to re-add it to a Windows VM. You will receive errors similar to the following. The IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter Name of adapter. Name of adapter is... read more
Feb 19, 2013
How To Enable Named Pipes and TCP/IP for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SQLExpress
During a recent installation of HP Insight Manager 7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 server the prerequisites failed complaining about you must enable named pipes and TCP/IP for the existing database service Microsoft SQL Server 2008. After a default install they are usually disabled. This applies to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express as well. To enable named pipes and TCP/IP for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Click Start... read more
Feb 13, 2013
How To Start and Stop Services Using PowerShell Remotely
Admit it, you’re an admin that likes to do everything possible from the desk or laptop and if possible from a command line because automation is our friend. With the addition of PowerShell this is getting more of the norm for Windows and starting and stopping services remotely is probably one of the most used. To perform this task we will need to several cmdlets, some get-service stop-service... read more
Feb 4, 2013
How To Remove Sleep Option from the Vista Shutdown Menu
Recently ran into an issue with a Windows Vista desktop system that the client kept putting the system to sleep with the desktop and was causing issues. If this was a laptop I wouldn’t want to remove the Sleep option from the menu, but being a desktop it was not such a big issue. Click Start, Run Type “regedit” To disable sleep for all users, go to... read more
