Monthly Archives: February 2011

Assign License to VMware ESXi 4.1

Posted by on February 26, 2011 4 comments

Applies to: VMware ESXi 4.1

Problem:

You have downloaded and installed the free ESXi 4.1 installable iso file, then installed it on your server. Later you downloaded and installed the vSphere Client 4.1. When you login to ESXi 4.1 using the vSphere Client, it displays a warning that your evaluation license will expire in 60 days.  You can’t find any way to install/assign the license key nor on the server or the vSphere Client.

Solution:

  1. Login to the ESXi server using vSphere Client and navigate to Home->Inventory.
  2. On the left-hand side, select your host.
  3. On the right-hand side, select the “Configuration” tab.
  4. Under “Software”, click “Licensed Features”.
  5. Click “Edit” on the right top corner.
  6. Select “Assign a new license key to this host”, and click “Enter Key”
  7. Click OK twice.

Link: Configure SSL Offloading in Exchange 2010

Posted by on February 16, 2011 No comments

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

This Exchange Wiki article explains how to configure SSL offloading for the Exchange 2010 protocols and client access services on an Exchange 2010 Client Access server (CAS).

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/how-to-configure-ssl-offloading-in-exchange-2010.aspx

Resetting NTFS Permissions in Windows 7

Posted by on February 4, 2011 1 comment

Applies to: Windows 7

Here’s the scenario. A friend of mine gave me his old disk drive to have it copied to a new drive. The old drive had permissions set on files and folders. Some of the files were not accessible, I was getting “Access Denied”.

I tried to right-click/properties on the folders that were not accessible and changed their owner and changed permissions but some folders were still inaccessible not matter what I did.

After some research, it turned out the tool “cacls” that allows one to display or change ACLs (access control lists) can help to reset ACLs.

In Windows 7 it is called “icalcs”. To reset files permissions simply do this:

  1. Run “cmd” as Administrator
  2. Go to the drive or folder in question, for example:
    cd i:
  3. To reset all the files permissions, type:
    icacls * /T /Q /C /RESET

That is it!

After that, the files permissions were reset and I could access them just fine.

icacls is a handy tool to change permissions of files en masse.