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Azure AD Connect DB corrupt

ADSync SQL connection problem I've got in a situation that our Azure AD Connect Synchonisation Server Manager was giving the status " stopped-database-connection-lost ". Only we did't mention this message, because every object was synced successful. After some problems with Azure Active Directory self-service password reset, I've decide to check the event logs. Event logs I found differend events errors, most of them mentioned the following error " The server encountered an error because the connection to SQL Server failed. ". When I opened Azure AD Connect tool, the configuration wizard was not giving me any errors of database problems. Event 6322, ADSync The server encountered an error because the connection to SQL Server failed. Event 6075, ADSync The management agent "domain.local" failed on run profile "Delta Import" because the connection to the server database was lost. E...

Error when opening LCM via PRISM

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After the upgrade to AOS 5.1.5, my LCM console gave the following message. Json Rpc request for unkown Rpc object LifeCycleManager Error message You can solve this issue by doing the following steps: 1). Verified that the PRISM shows: JSON RPC request error. 2). verified from ~$ zkls /appliance/logical/pyleaders/lcm_leader/   one of the CVM was not listed. I have 9. n_0000000096 n_0000000097 n_0000000098 n_0000000099 n_0000000100 n_0000000101 n_0000000102 n_0000000103 3). Verified One of the CVM .101 has .genesis_restart_required_path file. ~$  allssh "ls -latr ~/.genesis_restart_required_path" 4). Removed the file and restarted genesis on all the CVMs. ~$  rm .genesis_restart_required_path ~$  allssh genesis restart 5). Verified the issue does not exist anymore.

Nutanix .NEXT On Tour in Jaarbeurs Utrecht

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Na een uitverkochte editie in Nice komt .NEXT naar de Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. Hét IT-event op het gebied van Enterprise Cloud en alle nieuwe ontwikkelingen op het gebied van hyper converged infrastructure. Enterprise-datacenters evolueren: Van legacy hardware intensieve systemen naar een software gedreven infrastructuur. Een infrastructuur die draait op commodity servers met een cloud besturingssysteem. Het gaat erom om IT naar een hoger niveau te tillen door de flexibiliteit en eenvoud van de public cloud met één muisklik te combineren met je private cloud. Krijg meer controle, beveiliging en de voorspelbare economische aspecten met je eigen private cloud. Ter gelegenheid van het vijfjarige jubileum is de President van Nutanix aanwezig met een aansprekende keynote . Luister naar de aanwezige Nutanix-executives, -klanten, -gebruikers en externe gastsprekers waaronder ex-astronaut Andre Kuijpers! Wil je meer weten van deze IT-transformatie? Kom dan naar .NEXT on tour in Utrecht op 6 M...

vSphere 6 Client Search Error

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If you want to search the inventory with the vSphere Client and the search fails, it probably is an expected behaviour from VMware.  Details When logging in to vSphere Client using the Use Windows session credentials option, searching for inventory objects fails. You see the error: Login to the query service failed. The server could not interpret the communication from the client. (The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.) Solution Manually login with the VMware client. Searching for inventory objects when logged in to the vSphere Client using the Windows session Credentials, is not supported by VMware. Deselect use windows session credentials Enter your login Credentials Click login.

Get the Exchange 2010 DB whitespace back

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For exchange administrators it is sometime necessary to see how our Exchange databases are doing. You don't want that the database and transaction log on the datastores run out of disk space. Most of the time I want to see the blank space that is within a database. This blank space is sometimes called: Free space Free database pages Available Mailbox Space White space Checking White Space in Exchange 2010 Get the Whitespace from all the databases, run the following command: Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | Sort-Object availablenewmailboxspace | ft name,databasesize,availablenewmailboxspace -auto Show all softdeleted and disabled mailboxes in Exchange 2010 After you choose the DB you want to clear the whitespace, please check the softdeleted and disabled mailbox accounts per database with the following command: Get-MailboxStatistics -Database " DB1 " | Where-Object {$_.DisconnectDate -Notlike $NULL} | Format-Table DisplayName, DisconnectDate, MailboxG...

How to get SharePoint-sites directory in your Windows profile

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When you connect your SharePoint library, you expect an SharePoint-sites directory in your profile. In this blogpost you will find some helpful information to get the SharePoint-sites directory in Windows 7. If you click in SharePoint, connect to office. It take some days when the SharePoint-sites directory appear within your profile (c:\users\username\sharepoint-sites). If you follow the steps below, you can speedup this process. First of all. Be aware that the webclient services is used to connect to the webdav pages of SharePoint. This process will start automatically when needed. But if you reading this post, it might be helpful to check this services on your workstation. There are two important registry keys. Check if the following registry keys exist: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Portal] "PersonalSiteURL"="https://personal.organisation.com/personal/username/" "LinkPublishingTimestamp"=hex:1f,b0,e5,5...

Update the LCM packages for the first time on Dell XC

Life Cycle Management has designed to take care of all the necessary Dell tools, like the ones I mentioned in an earlier post: https://softwaredriven.blogspot.nl/2017/10/life-cycle-management-12-voor-dell-xc.html You can update components on production clusters in use. But it is recommended for the first time of running LCM 1.2, to do it during off-hours as the cluster requires a reboot per node to install iSM and PT Agent . This two components are necessary before the LCM can download the payload. Once the payload is downloaded, you can run an inventory again so LCM can determine what components need to be updated. Depending on the size of the cluster, this can take up to 10 minutes (for 3 node cluster) or longer depending on the number of components to be found. When you update a component, LCM put the host in maintenance mode. Then LCM put all the components in a queue to be updated. At the end of the update process, the system will do a reboot. After the reboot, the...