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VMware: Unable to migrate VM (Migrate button grayed out) - Resolved via MOB

Have you ever tried to migrate a Virtual Machine in vCenter and found that the Migrate… option is completely disabled (grayed out)?

Often, when …

Active Directory: Adding Windows Core as a Domain Controller.

Domain Controller in Windows Core

If you’ve followed this series, you already know how to set up a primary and a secondary Domain Controller …

Isilon OneFS: How a BBU Failure Brings Down Your Cluster (and the Risk of Forcing Recovery)

Working with enterprise storage infrastructure like Dell PowerScale (Isilon) usually provides peace of mind due to its high availability. However, …

Moving FSMO Roles

Why is it necessary to move FSMO roles?

In an Active Directory environment, not all Domain Controllers (DCs) are the same. Although most tasks are …

FSMO Role Function

FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operations) roles are critical roles in an Active Directory environment that are assigned to one or more domain …

How to extend the disk when there is another partition in between

Introduction

You’ve probably experienced this: you expand a virtual disk in Proxmox or VMware, go to Windows Disk Management intending to extend …

Exchange: How to Install Exchange Server

Introduction

At this point, we should have completed the following:

• Extended the Active Directory schema
• Prepared the domain for Exchange …

Exchange: How to Install Exchange Server Prerequisites

Introduction

For security and performance reasons, it is recommended to install Exchange only on member servers and not on Active Directory …

Exchange: How to Prepare Your Domain for Exchange

Introduction

Exchange uses Active Directory to store information about mailboxes and Exchange server configurations in your organization. …

Exchange: How to Extend the Active Directory Schema

Introduction

In this post, we’ll see how to extend the Active Directory schema and prepare it for an Exchange installation.

The Active Directory …