Networking

HP – Netgear | Trunk configuration between and HP Procurve and a Netgear GSM7352

How to create a trunk between an HP Procurve switch and a Netgear GSM7352S. First I start on the Netgear switch. By going to the Tab: Switching > LAG. Create a new LAG with a useful name/number id. For the trunk it’s best to use the static mode, enable STP and set the Admin Mode […]

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Microsoft | No username on User folder share only the name "My Documents" is displayed

It happens quite often that you see in your windows explorer on the fileserver where you store the roaming / default profiles of users. And you see only “My Documents” instead of a username To change this you have to change the view settings of windows first for all the folders (temporary) Change the settings

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Cisco | HP server network teaming to Cisco port-channel configuration

If you like to connect a HP server with HP teaming software to an Cisco Catalyst Switch. Than you will need to execute the following steps. Start first on the server. Incase you working with an RDP connection. Go to Launch HP Network ( normally the green network card in the task bar ) select

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Windows server 2012R2 Windows server 2003 | Share access issues after you followed up DFS BPA results

Yesterday I walked into an issue that windows 2003 servers and XP systems weren’t able to connect to a network share located on a Windows server 2012 R2. I ran the DFS BPA on the Windows server 2012R2 and saw the following message. Warning Srv.sys should be running. Well I thought I’ve to look how

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Microsoft Hyper-V | Installation error Windows server 2012R2 | “A virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found”

Yesterday I walked into an error of Windows Server 2012 R2 on Windows server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V. When i tried to install it in a virtual machine generation 2 version. (note: virtual machine generation 1 doesn’t have the issue with Windows server 2012R2) I got the following error: “A virtual disk support provider for

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Microsoft | Windows server 2008 R2 DNS warning via Best Practice Analyzer. => Root server not available ( timeout during validation )

When you use the Best Practice Analyzer for the Domain controller. it’s possible it says that the following root-server (l.root-server.net.) is not anymore available. You see the following error in the DNS To solve this issue you need to lookup what’s the new l.root-servers.net. You can find this information on IANA: http://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers Change the address

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Windows | Start powershell direct in the Command Prompt

I think some people already know but it could be useful to know. How to start powershell when you already opened a command line prompt Run a command prompt in adminsitrative mode To activate powershell. You need to enter the command: Powershell if you type the command: get-help get (You will get all the powershell

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