Pat Spencer

Mismatch between What Science knows and What Business Does http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html   Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action http://www.ted.com/playlists/60/work_smarter.html   Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work http://www.ted.com/playlists/60/work_smarter.html    Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work http://www.ted.com/playlists/60/work_smarter.html   Ted Talk: what makes us feel good about our work http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_about_our_work.html Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work http://www.ted.com/playlists/60/work_smarter.html  

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Ted Talk: what makes us feel good about our work http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_about_our_work.html  

Here is the command to output a formatted table with the Mailbox size formatted to be human readable.   [PS] C:\Users\adminpds>get-mailboxstatistics -server ex-002 |Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending |Select-Object Displayname,  itemcount, TotalItemSize, database |ft Displayname,itemcount,@{n="Total Size (MB)";e={"{0:N0}" -f $_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()};a="right"}, database  

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices Checklist Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Best Practices   http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/11/03/windows-server-2012-r2-hyper-v-best-practices-in-easy-checklist-form.aspx   Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices Checklist http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/03/10/windows-server-2012-hyper-v-best-practices-in-easy-checklist-form.aspx If you are demoing Hyper-V on a laptop, how do you set up Hyper-V networking to allow you to use your wireless card on the host? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IoZJYQeq4U

How do I add Multiple VLAN's to my Windows 2012 Hyper-V server? Turns out there there are 2 ways to do this.  The choice of which is better depends on your application of the VLANs Add another Team Interface and VLAN to your NIC Team Configure all VLANs within the Hyper-V Virtual Network Switch According to the original post, for VM's to access VLAN's, it is recommended to use method 2. I think, however, that Option 1 is the only workable option.  Especially for isolating Replication traffic. Option 1 ) How to add another Team Interface and VLAN to a NIC Team? To add a new Team Interface to an existing team, launch the NIC Teaming wizard from the Local Server page in Server Manager: Select your existing NIC Team in the “ Teams ” list box, and then select the “ Team Interfaces ” tab in the “ Adapters and Interfaces ” list box. Click on the Tasks menu and click Add Interface . In the New team interface dialog box, type the VLAN ID to assign to the new interfa...

I found this wonderful posting on another blog describing how to implement VLAN's on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-v Basically there are 2 ways to do it Add another Team Interface and VLAN to a NIC Team Configure all VLANs for VMs within the Hyper-V Virtual Network Switch 1 - How to Add a Team Interface and VLAN to a NIC Team: In Server Manager, Local Server view, launch the NIC Teaming Wizard Select your existing NIC Team in the “ Teams ” list box, and then select the “ Team Interfaces ” tab in the “ Adapters and Interfaces ” list box. Click on the Tasks menu and click Add Interface . In the New team interface dialog box, type the VLAN ID to assign to the new interface in the Specific VLAN field and click the OK button. You will now see two team interfaces associated with a single NIC team – the original team interface still operating in “default” mode and the new team interface that is assigned to a specific VLAN ID. Alternatively, the Add-NetLbfoTeamNIC PowerShell 3.0...

Symptom : After installing (or Re-installing) the Cisco AnyConnect Client on Windows 8, unable to initialize the NIC.  Error is “AnyConnect was not able to establish a connection to the specified secure gateway.  Please try connecting again” The Fix is to correct an error in the Description string for the VPN Connection in the registry. Run Regedit Navigate to the key Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vpnva Open the properties of the key DisplayName The text will look something like this: @oem20.inf,%vpnva_Desc%;Cisco AnyConnect VPN Virtual Miniport Adapter for Windows x64 Change the field to: Cisco AnyConnect VPN Virtual Miniport Adapter for Windows x64 by removing all the text and characters that are on the left of the word Cisco.    Exit Regedit and try again.

Discovered today that you need to create a GPO to allow the account “NT Virtual Machine\Virtual Machines” to logon as a service. Without this, you will discover that eventually you will not be able to start a VM.   It will give a Logon denied error message. Install the GPMC on a Hyper-V server Create or modify an existing GPO to include the above account in the LOGON AS A Service policy Run GPUPDATE /FORCE on all Hyper-V servers.

Using your computer without a mouse http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Your-Computer-Without-a-Mouse Before anyone flames me, this was required for me to install a Windows Server 2003 Pre-SP1 as a VM on Hyper-V 2012.  This was required for a migration lab.  You are unable to install the Integration Tools until SP2 is installed. 

A "bug" in Windows 2012 is that the source files for .NET Framework are not installed with the default GUI install of Windows 2012. A quick review of Get-WindowsFeature in Powershell will show that [ ] .NET Framework 3.5 (NET-Framework-Core) has a status of "Removed". Documentation on the net indicates that this will "install on demand" from the source media or from Windows Update.   Not true.  Even though this is on the Win2012 Certification Exam, it actually does not work.     The command to get past this little "bug" is to run DISM. The command then to install this feature is: DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:d:\sources\sxs Your Welcome. For reference, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/hh506443.aspx  

Microsoft Reference Site http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb978526.aspx Exchange 2013 Reference Site http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124413(v=exchg.150).aspx