Windows Time Sync with Active Directory

Weird, but found Windows Time service missing from several servers.  Not sure how this could happen, but below is the article that helped me put the services back.

Basically, just unregister then re-register the service and start it again.

net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register
net start w32time

Then, check registry HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters for NT5DS "type" entry.

Reference:
http://tigermatt.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/windows-time-for-active-directory/

SQL 2008 agent roles

Ways to give finer control to owners of SQL jobs.

Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188283.aspx

vShere 5 vCPU

Built my first VM on ESXi 5 hosts and thought this was interesting.  When  you configure the vCPU count now, you can specify # of virtual sockets and # of cores per vSocket.  Basically, vCPU = #sockets x # cores and there is no performance difference from what I been reading.  The only technical advantage I could find is that you can add virtual sockets to a running VM.

The purpose of this new way to configure vCPU seems to be for licensing trickery as stated in the reference article below...

Reference:
http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/vsphere-5-hardware-version-8-a-new-vcpu-config-for-licensing-trickery.html

Netapp certain FilerView pages not working

If you go into FilerView and try to configure of autosupport or something else that requires the JRE to load and you can an error.

Check the java control panel and make sure TLS 1.0 is not selected.

1. Control Panel, select Java applet.
2. In applet, go to Advanced settings tab, Security
3. Look for TLS 1.0 option
4. UNSELECT it.
5. Close all browsers and try again. 

 

Vmware ESXi Unsupported mode

On the console:

1. Press ALT-F1.
2. Type "unsupported" and press ENTER.  No characters will show on screen.
3. Enter ROOT password when prompted should get you into # prompt.
4. Be careful, you are in unsupported admin mode.

To Exit:

1. At #, type CLEAR and press ENTER to clear screen.
2. Type EXIT and press ENTER to exit unsupported mode.
3. Press ALT-F2 to switch back to ESXi console page.

Reference:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003677

Old Reminders in Outlook 2007 still popping up

Download MFCMAPI from http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com/

1. goto Session->Logon->select Outlook to connect
2. goto Session->Advanced logon->Displace message store table
3. from the message store table window, expand Root-Mailbox, then expand IPM_SUBTREE
4. rightclick 'calendar', select 'open contents table'
5. find the celendar entries you wish to remove, rightclick the message to remove, select 'delete message'.
6. done
7. go back to outlook. from menu 'View', select 'reminders window', verify if the messages/reminders are gone.

Reference:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-outlook/cannot-turn-off-a-reminder-in-outlook-2007/d07286f7-f3b9-4dcd-94df-a1c0565a2e44

Non-sa access to SQL 2000 Jobs

Add users to role TargetServersRole in MSDB database for SQL 2000 SP3+.

Reference:
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2006/sqlagent-scheduled-jobs/