Month: February 2011

Lync Server 2010 Install failure on Server 2008 R2 SP1

During my free time I thought I'd install Lync Server 2010 and check out the new features. If you want a great guide for installing Lync Server 2010, check out Jeff Schertz's blog here. I used Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 slipstream media, since it was just released to the public a...

Configure custom Default Profile in VMware VM Templates

Over the past year I've been developing Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 VM templates for my VMware environment. However, the process has not been without its challenges. One of the features I wanted was a customized default user profile so that things like WMP, IE, and other settings...

Windows Recovery Environment VMware Driver Injection

This post will show you how to configure Windows recovery environment VMware drivers. In a previous blog post here I described how to inject VMware pvscsi and VMNET3 mass storage drivers into your Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 image. However, that did not cover injecting the same drivers into the...

VMware VUM 4.1 U1 SSL Certificate Replacement

One of the continuing pain points with VMware vSphere is the unnecessarily complicated procedure to install trusted SSL certificates in ESXi, vCenter and VUM. Up until 4.1 Update 1 (released 2/10/11), VMware had no public procedures to update the VUM SSL certificate, over 1.5 years after vSphere 4.0 hit the streets. Plus...

Potential CommVault licensing gotchas for VMs

Some backup software manufacturers are offering a capacity based licensing model, instead of a agent based model. Depending on your situation, this may be a dramatically easier and cheaper licensing model. Traditionally you had to buy per-server licenses, per-agent licenses, per-library licenses, and maybe other options as well. Backup software...