So, lets say you’ve built up a Lync 2013 installation in parallel to your existing Lync 2010. It’s time to migrate users from Lync 2010 registrar pool to the Lync 2013 pool. But when you do this, you get the following error “Failed while updating destination pool” The… Continue reading
Today I was given an Evaluation of Lync 2013 and asked to install it in a Lab setting to have a look at it. So to get started, I spun up a Virtual 2008 R2 SP1 server, got it patched, assigned a static IP, and joined it to the lab… Continue reading
Nagios Monitoring is a great tool. Anyone reading this page knows that. I use Nagios Event Handlers to automatically take care of some issues that can be identified and dealt with by calling to a script or using long commands piped together for the Event Handler Command. I was recently… Continue reading
How To Install VMWare Tools v4 on Ubuntu Tested With: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server, Ubuntu 11.10 Server All the guides I found on the Internet, including VMWare’s website were outdated in some way, so I decided to write a guide of my own. I just went through these steps from… Continue reading
I have no idea why LCD screen went from being somewhat square to becoming widescreen. The trend started back in the 90’s when widescreen versions of DVD movies were the rage. So now we are stuck with screens that work pretty well with side by side windows. But I have… Continue reading
I was asked to create a new USB installer for Mountain Lion for one of our techs. I could have gone through the usual procedure from Apple for creating a USB installer but I wanted something easier since I already had a USB installer for Mountain Lion. So I was… Continue reading
Very simply, I wanted an easy way to list out the sizes of directories and all of the contents of those directories recursively. df will show the total disk usage ls -l will show you sizes of items in a folder. The answer is to use the following: du -h… Continue reading
I was attempting to install MS SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 and would get the following issue detecting a previous installation for RS_Server_Adv with error 0x04B20001. Following a few posts and blogs, I found out the SQL server modifies certain registry keys during installation attempts. By resetting the… Continue reading
NOTE: 5-20-2014 – I have switched from the PS3 MediaServer to Universal Media Server. I find it to be better than the PS3, easier to setup and maintain, and transcodes better. Please see my page on how to setup UMS in Ubuntu. I will leave this PS3 setup page here,… Continue reading
In a recent post, we did a step by step on installing OpenVPN to an Ubuntu server 12.04. https://www.slsmk.com/installing-openvpn-on-ubuntu-server-12-04/ The default install used certificate based authentication for the client. So if the client has the proper files, it can connect to the server. So lets say you want to use… Continue reading
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