Here is an old one that I have been using for years and never thought to document here on my site. Btw, I use this blog a lot for my own documentation. Reason 1 to blog in IT. Want to get rid of everything on a drive? I mean everything, all partitions, data, EVERYTHING. So […]
Read More →Show classic ASP errors in Azure
Here is the web.config to show classic ASP (.asp files) in Azure, or in my case Windows Azure Pack with websites. I commented out detailed error messages. With that enabled it would not show the classic ASP errors.
Read More →Fix Failed to retrieve configuration information. in Windows Azure pack Websites
Did you try enabling failed request tracing for a web site in the admin portal for Windows Azure Pack: Websites? And now you’re getting this error when you try to open the configure tab? Failed to retrieve configuration information.: Please try again. If the problem persists, contact support. Thanks to a kind gentleman on the […]
Read More →Dynamic vs Fixed Disk Benchmarks – Dynamic is faster
In the past I’ve never noticed much gain from going to a fixed disk over dynamic so I decided to finally put it to the test. I tested with two different disk arrays, one a slow SATA using storage spaces (RAID1+0) and another using SSD in straight RAID 0. Each array has 4 disks. Each […]
Read More →Cannot add shared web worker role to Windows Azure Pack Websites
Ran into this issue after the CU6 update. Turns our it is an issue with the update. I believe Microsoft is pushing everyone to the new MMC console instead of the web portal for admin tasks. This could be part of that effort. If you are seeing these errors when adding a new web worker […]
Read More →Powershell to get all MAC addresses of each virtual machine on a host and export to tab delimited file
This will spit out the MAC address and name of each virtual machine on a host to a text file. You can then clean the file up and throw it in Excel. I had to use this to clean up duplicate MACs in two different clusters because I’m a bad sys admin and didn’t change […]
Read More →Use powershell to turn off IPSec Task Offloading on all Virtual Machines on a host
I know you came here to copy and paste so here it is. Run this on each host. Works on stand alone and in clusters. Get-VM | Get-VMNetworkAdapter | Set-VMNetworkAdapter -IPsecOffloadMaximumSecurityAssociation 0 Very simple. Gets all virtual machines on a host, then their network adapters, then?disables IPSec task offloading. This is equivalent to unchecking the […]
Read More →The mother of all disk benches! 4 disk SSD array, server SSD array, storage spaces
I built a new disk array for my Hyper-V lab at home. Overkill? Yeah, but I got tired of waiting for VM’s to boot, or build from deployment. When I study or learn something new I need efficiency! Plus there was a sale on 256GB drives and I found a little 4 disk hot swap […]
Read More →Open your hosts file in notepad as administrator from command prompt
Working for a web hosting company I edit my hosts file a LOT. And forever I did it the hard way, right click on notepad and then open as administrator then open the hosts file. Unacceptable! I need my hosts file open and ready in a split second. Time is money, money is time, time […]
Read More →How to remove the AMD PCI Express (3GIO) Filter Driver
tl;dr: Go to device manager. Find?AMD PCI Express (3GIO) Filter Driver. Update the driver. Browse my computer. Point to the folder full of intel chipset drivers. Voila. Reboot. My Mom’s HP laptop just died, the night before she is scheduled to fly up to Canada for an extended visit. She needs the laptop, it’s her […]
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