Entries by Marco Drost

US household spending

 In this weak economic time most of us will have their cash flow closely monitor and will attempt to not have  any  part of the month left at the end of their money! We all know that there must be a balance between income and expenditure Actually there must be more income  than there is expenditure. But who […]

Sysprep Issues with customization specification

I thought this was a very known issue but assumptions are the mother of all …. So here some (old news). When deploying a virtual machine from a template within vCenter while using customization specification and within the customization specification it indicates that the system should be placed in a particular domain. Sysprep will try […]

Error 27552 Creating SQL Database Veeam Business View

When installing Veeam business view server with a existing database server i got a error when the installation is trying to configure the SQL Database.   Marco DrostWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.

SureBackup Ping error along with APIPA address

When you get a Ping error in your sure back-up Job like below. Static IP settings that were configured on the source server where not retained on the resulting virtual machine in sure backup!   This is a screen shot form the real-time statists in sure backup. You can see this screen when you right […]

HTTP 403.14 error Veeam Business view

After the installation of Veeam business server I  login in and expected  a popup  to configure the business view program. Marco DrostWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.

Loadbalancer Exchange 2010 Connection error

we have configured a master slave loadbalancer  configuration with the virtual appliance from loadbalancer.org.The configuration was setup as mentioned in there configuration documentation for exchange 2010, but at some point the master server CPU was climbing to the top.   Marco DrostWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are […]

SureBackup VMware tools not started

When you get errors within Veeam SureBackup like below (see picture) just adjust the “maximum allowed boot time” to , e.g. 3000sec and try again. You also can see the SureBackup log – SB_<name>.log for more information   Marco DrostWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable […]

LinkedIn is listening (advertising policy part 2)

Last week a wrote a article (LinkedIn uses your name and picture for advertising) about the new Privacy Policy of LinkedIn and how they will use you’re name and picture for advertising. Yesterday Ryan Roslansky blogged that the policies has been changed. This is what they did: And this is how they will do it […]

Linkedin uses your name and picture for advertising

The new Privacy Policy of LinkedIn give them the rights (by default) to use your name and picture for social ads. There statement is :   Marco DrostWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.

Domain controller status Unavailable all service are running!

While being logged on to the new 2008 R2 domain controller and all services are running I could not connect to this domain controller on a AD level. I wanted to transfer the Schema Master role to this new server but when i opened the Operation Master (from Active Directory Schema) i could not change […]