Author: Michael Paul | @MicoolPaul

Warning: vCSA 6.7 to 7.0 Upgrade via VAMI

December 4, 2020

Just a quick post if like me you’ve gone to patch vCenter via VAMI/port 5480 and found this: That’s right! A vCenter 6.7 system being presented a 7.0 update, it’s worth highlighting if you want proof you can’t patch to 7.0 from 6.7 this way, run the pre-update checks, it’ll tell you that this isn’t…
The NEW Veeam Community

December 4, 2020

Veeam did the unexpected at Veeam Live at the end of October, they announced a new Veeam Community. Now most frequent users of Veeam will no doubt be aware that Veeam already has a community of sorts, the Veeam Forums, so what’s different here?
Add RD Gateway Error “2147965800”

October 14, 2020

Just a quick blog today. I was deploying an RD Gateway into an environment today and I came across a unique error code when adding it into the deployment, “2147965800”. Upon checking the event log on the gateway server I could see a couple of policies were created successfully but then I saw a couple…
VMware / Veeam SureBackup: Invalid Change Tracker Error Code

April 27, 2020

Afternoon, Had a very peculiar error message when deploying SureBackup and the internet couldn’t give me any meaningful results! So I thought time to add to the collective world of knowledge with a blog post. Scenario: Onboarding customer for a managed backup solution, configuring SureBackup to ensure all backups are validated prior to sending to…
Polycom/3PIP Device doesn’t get any results (Skype for Business Server)

January 9, 2020

Evening, I had a support ticket I dealt with today that I couldn’t find any useful information on via the web, so I’m here to spread the knowledge, if you’re reading this it likely means you’ve searched one of the keywords here and are hoping to get your Skype for Business Address Book Service sorted…
Taking control of Windows Server 2016/2019 Updates

May 8, 2017

Automatic updates are a blessing for most IT technicians as with user machines we can set and forget our rules and feel comfortable that 99% of the machines are up to date. Now it’s our turn to feel the pain that our users have told us about with updates being installed at the most inappropriate…
RAM Acceleration: Optimising Aging Workloads at no cost!

May 14, 2016

Afternoon, This post covers a beneficial use case for RAM Acceleration (Read Caching). Please consider this post on RAM Acceleration only covers reads and only accelerates data that has already been previously loaded aka warm data.
$Solving the Exchange C: Drive\ Resource Mystery$

Solving the Exchange C: Drive\ Resource Mystery

April 9, 2016

Now you may have had Exchange in your environment for a while, you may even have had a DAG in place. You followed your best practise guidance of not installing the application on the C drive yet somehow your C drive is growing at a much faster pace than any other servers. Sound familiar? Read…
Handy Tip: Veeam Replication & vCenter VM Mac Conflict

April 4, 2016

Evening, I just wanted to write this quick blog post to help people who use Veeam to replicate their VMs on vCenter 6 U1B or newer. Apparently somewhere in the vCenter 6 lifeline it was decided that an alarm will trigger if a MAC address conflict was detected. I personally am all for this trigger…
The Cloud: Dipping instead of Diving

March 25, 2016

Afternoon, Today I wanted to write about a recent experience I had when I looked at investing further into the cloud and why I wanted to do so. I’ll be explaining how I’m not even spending a two digit sum a month and got a major benefit for my business.