tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106723772009-06-08T15:28:22.659-06:00Thoughts, information and technical insights from a Technical Support Engineer. (Best viewed in Mozilla Firefox). I blog about Novell, Linux, Microsoft, VMWare, and VirtualizationBuckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11702693040871475246noreply@blogger.comBlogger180125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10672377.post-50081396617322266472009-05-28T13:50:00.002-06:002009-05-28T13:55:14.960-06:002009-05-28T13:55:14.960-06:00

Novell IT in Action TourI'll be attending in Denver on Wednesday, June 3rdDenver Marriott City Center1701 California StreetFrom Novell:So let Novell help you set the most efficient pace with the IT in Action tour, coming soon to a city near you. At this unique event, you'll learn how you can: Boost workforce productivity with the latest personal

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Dean Lythgoe recently updated his blog with a GroupWise Roadmap:Dean's BlogHot Patches: We will be releasing within the next week or so a new Hot Patch for both GroupWise 7 and GroupWise 8. Please watch for this announcement. The patch is in final validation and we are working on a just a few details. This will be 7.0.3 HP3 and 8.0.0 HP2.GroupWise 8.0.1: We will be in extended authorized beta in

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I grew up with Computers! I know a lot of people say that, but really - I grew up with Computers! And Computers grew up with me. It's mostly because of my late dad. My dad was a Manufacturer's Representative back in the 70's for companies like DEC, Lear Siegler, Televideo, Wang, Franklin (the first Apple II clone), Osborne, Kaypro, and TI. My dad took me out of school to accompany him to

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Nasty Trojan - Spyware Protect 2009 on Windows XP SP2Spyware Protect 2009 comes on a computer with a single purpose: to get your money and possibly hijack your online banking account. SpywareProtect 2009 is presented as anti-spyware as you may guess by reading its name. Spyware Protect 2009 is not anti-spyware although it is able to mimic some actions performed by security applications.Not

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Today Ed Colligan (Palm CEO) talked to investors about the state of Palm and what some of their plans are going forward. There will be no more PalmOS devices released by Palm (except the Centro getting released on other carriers). They're focused on webOS and Windows Mobile. On the issue of PATENTS, Colligan made sure to note that there are no pending legal actions with Apple right now. He

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Happy Birthday Macintosh!Has it been 25 years?

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I'm here at Novell Provo for Advanced Technical Training. This morning Novell stunned the group with the announcement that Novell Brainshare 2009 has been cancelled.

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I'm going to re-broadcast this post from Danita, the GroupWise Goddess from her blog:"As many of you have heard by now, there is a nasty ConsoleOne snapins bug that could cause you serious headaches (thanks Tommy Mikkelsen for catching this one so quickly).Locking out older snapins is broken. It will be default lock out the currently shipping GroupWise 8 snapins, thus rendering your domain

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EnvironmentNetWare 6.5 iSCSI Configuration IssueiSCSI ConfigurationNovell Remote Manager. Click on iSCSI Services link and get the following error: Action Failure Error: Unauthorized access denied. DetailsGoal: to configure the iSCSI Initiator on NetWare From NetWare console: Enter ION (ion.ncf)From Novell Remote Manager: Click iSCSI Services link. Click Add Target and type the IP

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Problem: Virtual machine CPU usage spikes and remains abnormally high Cause: Starting with ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5, VMware DRS applies a cap to the memory overhead of virtual machines to control the growth rate of this memory. VMware DRS raises this cap at a controlled rate (1MB per minute, by default) to grant the required memory until the virtual machine overhead memory reaches a

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Environment==========Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server MS Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 32 Bit Issue==========TFS Data Warehouse isn't refreshing, EventID 3000Details:==========Every hour data is pulled to refresh the data warehouse. It picks up the EVENT ID 3000 Event ID: 3000 Event Source: TFS Warehouse Exception Message: XML parsing failed at line 1, column 0:

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Countdown to December 18 Release of OpenSUSE 11.1

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Issue Exchange OAB error (OAB = Offline Address Book)Details: Receiving error from Outlook 0x8004010F everytime anyone from Caching Mode access the Offline Address Book.Receiving event id in exchange 9334 Source MSExchangeSAMy previous Exchange server crashed and I moved the database to a new a new virtual instance. I tried to move all Exchange services i.e. routing, update service, etc. but for

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Check out this Presentation on Novell Storage Manager. Create User Policies to automatically provision create / clean up user storage space.Link for PresentationWith Novell Storage Manager, you can: Easily manage storage on Microsoft Windows, Linux and NetWare, leveraging their respective directory technologies (Microsoft Active Directory and Novell eDirectory)Automatically allocate, manage

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Watch for several announcements from VMWorld 2008 happening this week in Las Vegas September 15, 16, 17.I'll be posting announcements from Microsoft, Citrix, Cisco, Novell, Sun, etc. Watch for these announcements in my shared items list at the top of my blog.Yes it's THE huge event right now! Virtualization is where it's at for Green IT! Watch out VMWare! Microsoft has you in it's scope and it's

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This isn't a Novell Case, it's a Microsoft case that I worked on. I'm doing more and more Microsoft support.Windows 2000 SP4 connecting to EMC SAN. Doing sizing and running Disk Performance. diskperf -yv - Performance monitoring per disk. Expect to see physical disk and Performance Object Counter is not there. In the picture on this blog on my server, it's there, but the customer wasn't seeing

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TID 7000466Open Enterprise Server 2 customers are advised not to download SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 at the present time.TID 7000387 How to update SLES / SLED 10 SP2 - OES2 systems should NOT be updated to SLES10 SP2 at this time!Cool Solutions: Installing Open Enterprise Server2 Into Existing TreeScreen Shots - Screen by screen. Very useful.http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/appnote/

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Removing a Server Object And Directory Services From a TreeUse the following syntax:ndsconfig rm -a admin FDN eDirectory and its database are removed from the server.Example, To remove the eDirectory Server object and directory services from a tree, you could enter the following command:ndsconfig rm -a cn=admin.o=companyndsconfig Utility ParametersnewCreates a new eDirectory tree. If the

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Today I was asked if it was ok to have a mixed tree with NetWare Server running eDirectory 8.7 and the new OES2 servers running 8.8. The short answer is... yes it's ok to have a mixed tree with different versions of eDirectory. It's not like in the old days with NDS v6 and v7 mixed with NDS v 8. But then I started thinking about this. Novell Support recommends you don't have a mixed tree with

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Register now for Novell Linux Day 2008! I'll see you at the Denver Marriott on October 9, 2008Event Location:Denver Marriott City Center1701 California StreetDenver CO 80202

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Here is a resolution to a call I received last week.Environment ========== Novell OES2 with Linux iManager 2.7 eDirectory 8.7 NetWare ; 8.8 OES2 Linux Issue ========== iManager Reports Invalid incarnation Number when attempting to create a NSS pool or Volume on OES Linux Details: ========== See TID 7000741 Deleted Proxy user, Not sure if the Proxy user was reinstalled correctly. Systems admin

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