For our Dell R610 servers, we apply firmware, Bios, and hardware patches using the Unified Server Configurator and an SUU Bundle created from Dell’s Repository Manager software. During a recent update, one of the servers returned the following error: “Alert! iDRAC6 not responding. Power required may exceed PSU wattage.” CAUSE: This produced a somewhat...
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I recently upgraded to iOS 5 on both my iPhone 3GS and iPAD 2. I selected the option in iTunes to sync wireless over Wi-Fi for both devices. However, only my iPhone would do this. The steps below resolved and fixed my issue: ** THIS ASSUMES you have verified any network issues to ensure the iTunes system and iOS device are on the same subnet. 1) Make sure the WI-FI sync...
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Was working one minute…now its not! Welcome to the wonderful world of Windows Updates. I’m assuming this was broken by the unattended installation of Server 2008 R2 SP1 through our environment or some KB update prior. It all started with this error when I tried to log into VCenter Server: “vSphere Client could not connect to ‘{machine name}’...
Learn MoreIf you have the Edge Transport Role installed on an Exchange 2010, mail may be rejected
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So I wait 6 months after the release of SP1 to install it to Exchange 2010. Mostly because the server had been running great (The older I get the easier it is to accept – IF IT AIN’T BROKE!). As it turns out, this may have been the most difficult Service Pack we’ve ever installed. Thinking we’d insulate ourselves from issues, we made a VMware...
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This procedure was documented using VM Infrastructure 3.5 for altering ESXi 3.5 virtual machines. You may need to use Veeam to make the renaming adjustments. Could also be done via SSH. CAUTION: If snapshots do exist and are needed, then you may need to alter the *.vmdk files to keep the chaining in place. If you do not need the snapshots, select “delete all”...
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While trying to execute an SSIS import package on a customer’s Excel file, SQL Server 2008 SP1 was returning a “truncated” error. Although, the SSIS package was set to ignore these, the execution halted and data was not written to the SQL table. There were a number of posts including David Klein’s and Waxtadpoles regarding SQL 2005 and the...
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One of our users suddenly began experiencing a severe draining on his iPhone battery. There are variety responses to this topic, the least of which was to change the iPhones mail retrevial from Push to Fetch. Howver, other iPhone users were not experienceing this issue. So we set out to troubleshoot what was happening. After two days of research, below is our results...
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