Saturday, June 22, 2013

Applying a patch to esxi 5 without reboot or booting from cd

src: http://www.arkf.net/blog/?p=307 

For ESXi 5, instead of using esxupdate ( I guess esxupdate is deprecated ), use esxcli :

esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/4be1f209-78ae1314-33c5-001b213d3c53/patches/ESXi500-2012813.zip

src: http://www.arkf.net/blog/?p=307

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Change time server source on Windows Server 2003 - ntp server

Try a different external time source.  You also dont need to stop and start the service anymore in 2003.

Do this:

net time /setsntp:time.nist.gov
w32tm /config /update
w32tm /resync /rediscover /nowait

Check the logs for w32time errors and post back if you get any.

The only machine (DC, member server, client, whatever) you should do this on is the PDC emulator in the root domain.  If you type net time /querysntp on ANY other machine in the forest, it should say it is not configured.