I had my eyes on HTC Sensation from the date it was announced. So, needless to say, I got my hands on it as soon as my contract expired and I renewed to a new one. So far, it has not let me down and has scored on every count. However, there was one thing that [...]
For those of you who follow VMware products closely, the past couple of weeks have been quite interesting. VMware has announced vSphere 5.0 which has a lot of new exciting features and as always, bigger limits for resources that people are unlikely to hit... ever! However, it is unfortunate that this version of vSphere is making headlines [...]
Just wanted to add a note about DCPROMO (the program that "promotes" a server to become an Active Directory Domain Controller) and the need to have Remote Registry service enabled for it to succeed. Generally, you wouldn't expect DCPROMO to be dependent on such a service but the reality is that there is a dependency and [...]
Recently, we ran into a problem which saw "VMware VirtualCenter Service" on one of our vCenter servers crashing after every restart. In my last post here, I documented the whole incident and its solution. If you read the post, you'll see that I had to delete a considerable number of accumulated snapshots from the affected VM [...]
A few days back, we were hit by a problem on one of our vCenter servers (vCenter 4.0 Update 1) in that the "VMware VirtualCenter Server" service starting failing. The message in "System" event log was "The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this n time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 300000 milliseconds: Restart [...]
HTC recently released an updated ROM (version 3.14.110.1) for T-Mobile (UK) HTC HD2 phones (review of the update is here). Updating to the new version is highly recommended as it makes the mobile more responsive, stable and power efficient. However, one of the issues you get after upgrading is that HTC Peep stops downloading tweets from your Twitter account [...]
In February, HTC released a ROM update for T-Mobile (UK) HTC HD2 mobiles. I happen to have one and was waiting for an update, due to some reliability issues with my mobile. It was running ROM version 1.72.110.4. Main issues were the requirement to reboot the phone every now and then, occasional locking up and quick drainage [...]
There have been a few instances in the last few years when people have gasped at my revelation that we run our Active Directory on a static BIND DNS infrastructure. Nobody expects anyone to run Active Directory on BIND DNS - let alone a static one. However, it is indeed possible to run such an [...]
Companies involved in IT (or other fields), usually develop relationships with vendors/consultant firms over years of working with them. We are no different and also have such relationships. However, the time has come for our account manager in one such company to move on to bigger and better things. Generally, it's customary for account managers to introduce you to [...]
The first thing one wants to do after upgrading the environment to a newer ESX version, is to upgrade VMware tools on all VMs. If the environment has a large number of machines, this could be a tedious and time-consuming process. This is where the ability to upgrade a bunch of machines automatically comes in very [...]