Really easy. Tried on Win 7 and Server 2008 Install “Services for NFS” through “Turn Windows features on or off” Open up a command prompt and type the following w/o quotes: mount <SAN DNS Name>:/vol/<volume name> And your done!
Category: Server 2008/R2
Seizing FSMO rolls
The five FSMO roles are: Schema master – Forest-wide and one per forest. Domain naming master – Forest-wide and one per forest. RID master – Domain-specific and one for each domain. PDC – PDC Emulator is domain-specific and one for each domain. Infrastructure master – Domain-specific and one for each domain. Best practice shows to…
Import NetBackup images via the command prompt
– NetBackup 7, Server 2008 R2 Ran into an issue where our old backup server was no longer operational and we had to create a new NetBackup server along with upgrading the version. Had to recall all our tapes to import them into the catalog. Here is what needed to be done for each tape…
Changing a Tapes media type
– Performed on NetBackup 7 with Server 2008 R2 The other day we had some dlt tapes sent from our site to import into our local enviornment. We had trouble with the import because the media type recorded for the images was (HCART3) and the local enviornment uses (HCART). You can manually go into the…
Expire & Delete tapes
– Ran on NetBackup 7 on Server 2008 R2 First you need to make sure that there are no valid images on the tape that you want: NetBackupbinadmincmdbpimmedia -mediaid -L If there are no images that you need, expire the tape: NetBackupbinadmincmdbpexpdate -m -d 0 -host -force This expires the images in the media database…
BGInfo not showing correct IP info on Server 2008R2 Physical boxes
There is an apparent issue with BGinfo, everyones favorite sys internals tool for physical Server 2008 R2 boxes. This issue is that no network information shows up for IP, DNS, Gateway, and Subnet. I haven’t tested this issue with non-teamed NICs.
Build a Server 2008 VMware ESX VM Template
NOTE – VMware Virtual Center 2.5 Update 4 or vCenter 4 is required to use Guest Customizations with Windows 2008. http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vi3_vc25u4_rel_notes.html#whatsnew For Windows 2008 R2 if you are installing on vSphere 4 without Update 1 or on ESX 3.5 without update 5 set the Template VM OS to Windows 2008 instead of Windows 2008 R2….
Windows Enabler
This is an amazing tool which assisted me in unlocking the grayed out button that appears in copying a user profile in server 2008 and R2.