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My name is Luke, I am an IT Engineer with a fondness for caffeine and American food!

On this blog, I will share my real world experiences, solutions, best practices and many more awesome things that may be of someone’s assistance!

Stuck at a Black Screen and Connecting on a vCloud console

January 1, 2017/0 Comments/in Windows /by Luke

On a computer running Windows 7 x64 SP1 Enterprise running Internet Explorer 11 browser, I had issues connecting to the console of Virtual Machines hosted by VMWare vCloud. This was resolved by completing the following: Adding the website to the Trusted Site list Adding the website to Internet Explorer’s compatibility list Updating Java on the […]

Configuration Manager Queries

December 31, 2016/0 Comments/in Windows /by Luke

One of the best uses of Configuration Manager is its ability to query and actually make use of the data in a dynamic and automated way. This is just a quick post with a few Configuration Manager WQL queries I have created or collected that may be useful to someone. Feel free to use them, […]

Install Visio 2010 Standard instead of Premium

December 28, 2016/0 Comments/in Windows /by Luke

Unfortunately, volume license editions of Visio 2010 install Premium by default – this can then be downgraded to Visio standard by changing the Product key to Standard edition. However – come annual Microsoft True up you don’t want any surprises or manual intervention! This is how you can change Visio to be installed by Standard […]

Capturing Windows boot performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit

December 28, 2016/0 Comments/in Windows /by Luke

The Windows Performance Toolkit, developed by Microsoft has 3 separate tools and are key to solving a lot of boot and general performance issues: • Windows Performance Recorder • Windows Performance Analyzer • Xperf Table of Contents1 Download Windows Performance Toolkit2 Run Windows Performance Recorder3 Run Windows Performance Analyzer4 Useful resources Download Windows Performance Toolkit This can be […]

Database error when making changes to DHCP reservations

December 28, 2016/0 Comments/in Windows /by Luke

“An error occurred while accessing the DHCP database.” One of the issues I have ran into since an upgrade to Windows Server 2012 R2 DHCP servers – was due to multiple processes access the DHCP database when I was attempting to Create or Modify a DHCP v4 reservation. Adding an exclusion to DHCP.MDB file for […]

How to create and mount an NFS datastore on ESXi using a Drobo 5N

December 24, 2016/0 Comments/in Misc /by Luke

This quick guide will run you through installing an NFSv3 server on your Drobo 5N and then mounting it on an ESXi host- the same setup can also be used for adding the NFS share using vSphere. I will be setting this up on a VMWare ESXi 6.5 host, running off an Intel NUC and […]