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Restarting the VMware ESX Management service
There are times when an ESX server will need the Management Service restarted. Usually this is when the ESX host is grayed out and the guest machines are “disconnected”. To restart the service, log onto the console and execute the following: # service mgmt-vmware stop # service mgmt-vmware start (can [...]
IE 8 broke my ASP.Net Menu
Last night I upgraded to Internet Explorer 8, thinking that I wanted to be on the “latest and greatest” version of IE. I should have known better. About 10 minutes before a customer demo of a project I have been working on for a while now, I realize that it has broken my ASP.net [...]
SQL 2008.. Compress them backups
For those SQL admins who have managed their SQL backups using SQL dumps have had to wrestle with file sizes for many years. There are better ways of backing your databases up using things like SQL connectors to a backup software like CommVault or other backup programs but many times you just need a [...]
