Remotely connecting vCenter Server to ESXi hosts
When supporting a number of small businesses, it is quite useful to connect a local vCenter server to manage clients’ remote ESXi hosts. Setting this up for the first time…
Group Policy WMI Filter for Remote Desktop Server
We were configuring a Remote Desktop Server farm and needed to setup some group policies that only applied to computers that were Remote Desktop Servers. There are a couple of…
Save money by hosting your email on Microsoft’s Hotmail servers
Microsoft’s Office 365 Exchange Online service is great, but some organisations cannot afford to pay the monthly costs that Microsoft asks. Thankfully there is an alternative in the form of…
Remote Desktop Gateway looping on credentials
We were setting up a couple of servers with a Exchange DAG and Remote Desktop Gateway services and ran in to an issue where the Remote Desktop Gateway was looping…
New member of the Focused IT team
Focused IT are pleased to announce a new addition to the team. From 12 March 2012 Mervyn Last will be joining us – bringing with him over ten years of…
Restoring a server to different hardware and avoiding 0x0000007b
We were recently asked to take a fire damaged SBS Essentials 2011 running on a HP Proliant ML330 G6 and get it back up and running. As the server wasn't…
Remote Desktop Connections
We support a lot of clients and need to get issues resolved quickly with as little fuss as possible, to achieve this we use lots of tools but one I…
SharePoint Search and VSS Warnings
Unnecessary warnings in your event logs are annoying and one of the biggest culprits is the SharePoint Search service. The latest one I have come across is actually reported as…
Set Computer Description from Active Directory
We often run audit reports on our clients networks to ascertain age of equipment, but identify where each computer is can be tricky from just the name and potentially the…
Black Screen of Death when restoring SBS 2011
Here at Focused IT we regularly test our clients backup by performing a bare metal restore to dedicated hardware every three months to ensure it's going to be okay in…