Author: ayalaaii

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer now dedicated to share my knowledge and experiences through this Blog, I hope many can benefit from it.

SMTP Relay for Office 365

I recently had a customer that needed to send scanned documents from a multifunctional printer to Office365: Check to see if the Printer supports TLS (needed to send to Office 365) In this case the printer did not, so I had to go to plan B: Create SMTP Server Configure Office 365 Connector  I.  Create […]

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DPM encountered error from VMware while trying to get ChangeTracking information. Server – vcenter.mydomain.com ErrorCode – FileFaultFault (ID 33621 Details: Internal error code: 0x80990EF3)

Recently a Backup Admin from a client had an issue with DPM  the error read: “DPM encountered error from VMware while trying to get ChangeTracking information. Server – vcenter.mydomain.com ErrorCode – FileFaultFault (ID 33621 Details: Internal error code: 0x80990EF3)” I researched the error and found a solution by:  Josh Gulick, Support Engineer, Microsoft  Change Block […]

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Unable to delete Checkpoint (HYPER-V)

During a training session with Microsoft Hyper-V  trainees were asked to create and delete checkpoints a particular trainee found herself unable to delete the checkpoint from GUI. As I’ve seen this before many times, I instructed the trainee to open PowerShell and execute the following command: “Get-VMSnapShot -vmname test1” and there we see the snapshot VMNAME: Test1 […]

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GPT Protective Partition

I’ve recently found myself dealing with GPT protected partitions on HP Proliant Servers on which I’ve created Arrays using “Intelligent Provisioning App” to manage Storage. As with any Array configuration: Add the discs to the enclosure Create and array select the discs in the array Commit changes and you are done, but recently after running that same […]

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Automatic Upgrade of VMware Tools

Have you ever tried to upgrade the VMware Tools on a VM and shown: Interactive Tools Upgrade Automatic Tools Upgrade I have stumbled upon this screen many times and most of the time chose the “Interactive Tools Upgrade” option where you login to the VM and install manually. After some research I found the commands […]

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