Specter/Meltdown performance impact on my Lenovo T450S

Did some quick benchmarks tonight with the mitigation’s enabled and disabled. I’m losing over 10% performance on a Broadwell i5-5300U   Enabled:   Disabled: If you want to try yourself here is how you can disable the mitigation’s. Run the following from Command Prompt or PowerShell. Make sure you ‘Run as Administrator’. reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session … Read more

Datastores not listed after deploying VMware Replication Appliance

Just did a fresh deployment of the VRM 6.5.1 appliance into vCenter 6.5.1u1 which controls our vSphere 5.5 hosts. Installation and configuration went smoothly but when I went to setup a test replication for a VM I could not complete the setup because none of my datastores were being listed. A reboot of vCenter did … Read more

Some users cannot login to new NPS based VPN server

Our environment previous used a Windows 2003 Server running RAS to offer our employees VPN. This server went away for multiple reasons and we built a brand new 2012 R2 server running NPS and RAS. Since switching over we’ve had a few employees unable to login to the new VPN server. They keep getting “Invalid … Read more

Powershell script to report on total send/received e-mails in Exchange v2.0

An updated and improved version of my old script from here. This script has been tested against Exchange 2016 CU4. I do not know if it will work against older versions of Exchange. The script can be configured to run as a scheduled task and it generates a e-mail report of users who have sent … Read more