You might get this message launching VMware vSphere PowerCLI on your Windows workstation : The PowerShell execution policy of this computer is not set to “RemoteSigned”. This prevents execution of PowerShell scripts on your computer and will result in errors when VMware vSphere PowerCLI is invoked. It is recommended that you set the execution policy… Read More »
Here is a quicky how to change/modify the priority of a process on your system task scheduler. I will first explain how to change the priority of an existing process and then for new processes. 1. Find out the current priority either using “top” or with the specific process ID : ps -o pid,comm,nice -p… Read More »
If like a lot of sysadmin, you manage servers in a remote location and usual clean shutdown dosen’t work but you still have console access, there is a workaround to send an interrupt that will do exactly the same as you push the reset button. Since a reset on a heavy used server is never… Read More »
By default, Exchange will set the smtp banner to the local name into the Active Directory. However, this can cause serious issue when communicating with other mail servers on the Internet. The banner need to be changed on the “ReceiveConnector” through the Exchange Management Shell. 1. Get the current ReceiveConnector name : Get-ReceiveConnector This should… Read More »
You might ran into this error running AutoInstaller for Plesk 11 for Windows : Unable to install the “plesk-11.0.9.noarch” package. The following could cause the installation failure: 1) plesk-11.0.9.noarch: No suitable solutions were found for the “IIS” dependency. 2) The dependency for “IIS” required by the “plesk-11.0.9.noarch” package could not be resolved. This mean you… Read More »
The latest update of Dell OpenManage for package srvadmin-omcommon-7.2.0-4.459.1 failed, ending with the following error : cp: cannot stat `/opt/dell/srvadmin/etc/openmanage/wwwroot/oem/data/ini/*ini’: No such file or directory Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package srvadmin-omcommon-7.2.0-4.459.1.el5.x86_64 error: %pre(srvadmin-omcommon-7.2.0-4.459.1.el5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping srvadmin-omcommon-7.2.0-4.459.1.el5 The updater is looking for some ini file… Read More »
If your computer briefly show blue screen “A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent any damage to your computer” with stop code “0x0000007B” and then reboot, this usually mean your boot device is inaccessible. To troubleshoot and hopefully fix this, you need to access the “System Recovery Console” include in your… Read More »
If you get the following message booting a VMware guest machine : Your CPU does not support long mode. Use 32bit distribution. This mean Virtualization Technology is disabled in the BIOS. Simply enable VT and boot your VM again.
Adding a bunch of IP to windows through the GUI is a nightmare! Fortunately, you can enter a single command that will add them in a second. Simply open the command prompt and type the following command : FOR /L %I IN (<IP_START>,1,<IP_END>) DO netsh interface ip add address “Local Area Connection” <IP_SUBNET>.%I <IP_NETMASK> Let’s… Read More »
Having slow network performances, packet loss and noticed this message in the logs or dmesg output under heavy load on your Linux box? ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet This is because you reach the limit set for connection tracking. To display the current usage, use the following command : wc -l /proc/net/ip_conntrack In such case,… Read More »