Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Scheduled server reboots

To schedule a reboot, ie. like patching and having a server reboot during the downtime...

"at 23:00 shutdown /l /r /y /c"

See reference for details...

Reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317371

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

BusLogic SCSI controller not supported on Vmware VM

When a Windows virtual machine is powered on, the Tasks and Events tab of the virtual machine on the vSphere Client displays this warning under Events:

The guest operating system is and one or more virtual SCSI devices are installed in the virtual machine. does not support the BusLogic SCSI adapter that VMware ESX currently uses for virtual SCSI devices. Install the VMware driver in the virtual machine. Download the driver from "http://vmware.com/info?id=43". Click OK to continue or Cancel to cancel.
Fix is in reference below...

Reference:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007603

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Fixing orphan database users

This is a good article on how to fix orphan users.  Works well when you restore a database and need to create/link the SQL logins that correspond to database users in the restored database.

Reference:
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/02/15/sql-server-fix-error-15023-user-already-exists-in-current-database/