Where I work, we have been using Microsoft Virtualization since Virtual Server was in Beta. Of course, we don’t necessarily use all of the functions and features of all the software we have, but one feature that I have used a good bit is the “Convert physical server” action in System Center Virtual Machine Manager. … Continue reading SCVMM and P2V Adventures
Author: Michael
A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine.
Today, while getting ready to deploy an updated Citrix farm for a set of Line of Business applications, I got an error during the sysprep process. The machine in question is a 2008 64 bit machine. It has Citrix and all the applications installed. It is also a Hyper-V VM. I created an answer file… Continue reading A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine.
My 5 seconds of fame…
So this week, I am at MMS 2010. I try to come to MMS every year, because it gives me a chance to get away from the office (if not really away from work), and allows me to get some time to look at, learn about, and hopefully gain insight into what Microsoft is thinking… Continue reading My 5 seconds of fame…
“netvsc” error in Hyper-V guest
We use Citrix Presentation Server for a number of applications, and lately we have had a significant increase in issues with one set of our Citrix servers. We have 3 main sets of Citrix servers and the problems have only been happening on one set. One of the sets doesn’t have this error, but wouldn’t… Continue reading “netvsc” error in Hyper-V guest
The ordinal 120 could not be located in the dynamic link library iertutil.dll.
We have 5 Citrix Terminal Servers that are configured “identically”. After installing IE8 on two of them, the following started showing up: After a bunch of searching, I saw a few people have gotten this, but no one had a solution, or at least I couldn’t find it. I did see a similar… Continue reading The ordinal 120 could not be located in the dynamic link library iertutil.dll.
Not recognized as a cmdlet…
I have been working on a simple little script to copy a file and then launch a program. I am sure that there are a lot of ways to do it, but I decided to use PowerShell, and this is what I came up with: $CheckForFile = "H:\custom.ini" $FileToCopy = "c:\IT\custom.ini" $CopyFileTo = "H:\" $PathTest… Continue reading Not recognized as a cmdlet…
Ha Ha – “408 error”
For some reason this struck me as funny… Got it when I went to view the WordPress stats for my blog…
PowerShell Confirm Preference
I seem to run into an issue when I run some PowerShell scripts where I get prompted at each line of the script for confirmation. That can get really annoying, so I have to look up how to prevent that behavior. Thankfully, there is already some good information out there on how to do that:… Continue reading PowerShell Confirm Preference
Servers in Domain
At some point, I had a desire to list all the computer accounts for any server OS in Active Directory. I am pretty sure that I did a search and found the script below, but I don’t remember where, so whoever wrote it doesn’t get credit this time… $strCategory = “computer” $strOperatingSystem = “Windows*Server*” $objDomain… Continue reading Servers in Domain
TechNet wiki…
So a TechNet wiki is coming, as stated by Keith Combs here: three big things we focus on for all TechNet scenarios are Content, Discoverability, and Participation. We really want to invite participation from everyone and what better way to combine that with discovery and content than to use Wiki technology? Later this year TechNet and… Continue reading TechNet wiki…