Friday, March 13, 2009

What causes VDI client to prompt logon twice?

check for other remote desktop / access software installs such as citrix, novel neo clients...
How to recover mail store (database) from exchange crash:

background: in 2007, can't mount mail store after crash.
  1. reboot
  2. run ESEUTIL /mh (mailstorepath\mailstore.edb) on all mail stores to determine if any store is in "Dirty Shutdown" state
  3. run ESEUTIL /p (mailstorepath\mailstore.edb) on each "Dirty Shutdown" store
  4. mount mail stores, if successful, go to end
  5. if mount fails, move e00.chk, tmp.edb and catalogdata-xxx folders to other location
  6. retry mount
How to set up load balancing for Virtual Machines:

1) make sure the servers to be load balanced are on the same vSwitch
2) install and configure Microsoft NLB (see related articles)