Windows,AWS and Vmware Insight

How to resolve Black login screen on windows 2003 server Symptom: When you RDP windows 2003 server it shows black screen Cause: This issue occurs if all values under registry key " HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Colors" are set to "0" Resolution: 1) Login to another windows 2003 server which is working fine 2) Click Start , point to Run , type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK 3)  Locate the following registry subkey: HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Colors 4) Right-click the Colors registry subkey, and then click Export 5) In the File name box, type a name for the file   6) Copy this file to server where you have issue 7) Click Start , point to Run , type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK 8) On the File menu, click Import . 9) Double-click the .reg file that you want to import 10) Quit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer Note: Please do not import/export registry keys at the root level

How to add extra column in search query of Active Directory   1) Go to ADSIEDIT 2) Connect to configuration partition 3) Go to CN=DisplaySpecifiers inside configuration 4) Go to CN=409 5) In right pane right click CN=Defualt Display and open its properties 6) Slect Extracolumns and click on edit 7) Add value in following format <ldapDisplayName>,<Column Title>,<Displayed by default>,<Column Width>,<unused> LDAPDisplayName value is ldap name of the filed that you want to get added Column Title calue is Name of the column that you want to give Displayed by default value decided whether this files should be displayed by default or not (value can be 0 or 1) Column width value is the size of column that you want to keep Unused must be zero E.g if we want to add column for mobile number then format would be mobile,mobile number,0,150,0  

                                     This post describes how to configure ESXi 6.0                 Step 1 : Connect to the DCUI console of the host                           Step 2: Press “F2”, enter the root credentials and press “Enter” to login.            Step 3: Select “Configure Management Network” and press “Enter”.         Step 4: Select “Network Adapters” to select additional “vmnics” for the Management vSphere         Standard Switch.           Step 5: Select “VLAN (optional)” to configure a VLAN for the Management VMkernel.          Note: If it is an access port then no need to provide Vlan id, but if it is a Trunk port then Vlan id needs to be defined.         Step 6: Select “IPv4 Configuration” to configure DHCPv4, IPv4 Static or IPv4 Disabled.             Step 7: Select “IPv6 Configuration” to configure DHCPv6, IPv6 Static or IPv6 Disabled.         Step 8: S

This post describes how to change DNS servers IPs of Windows server on AWS     NOTE: Do not change DNS servers directly inside OS of server installed on AWS. By Changing DNS servers from OS will break the instance and make it inaccessible     STEP1: Check current DHCP option in AWS and name of DHCP options set attached to VPC   By default DHCP option set is created and attached to VPC.   Login to AWS console and go to VPC. Click DHCP options sets           STEP2: Click on Create DHCP options set It will prompt for details       STEP3:  Fill the details as per your requirement. Domain name will cange Domain suffix     STEP4:  Verify DHCP Option set     STEP5: Attach new DHCP option set by right clicking on VPC and select edit DHCP option set       STEP6: Change the DHCP option         STEP7: Verify attachment of new DHCP option set to VPC     STEP8: Check existing settings on Server

This post describes how to Increase C drive of Windows server on AWS     Step 1: Note current C drive space on windows server (in this e.g. it is 30 GB)           Step 2: Login to AWS console. Click on root device of instance for which C drive needs to be increased and note down EBS ID of volume       Step 3: Search volume by volume id noted in previous step and  t ake snapshot of volume by right clicking on the volume       Step 4: Enter name and description of snapshot   Step 5: search snapshot and Create new volume by right clicking snapshot     Step 6: Select type of volume Select size (mention the new size that you want). I have increased by 10 GB hence new size is 40 GB Select availability zone. Availability zone should be same zone in which instance is available. NOTE: You cannot attach volume created in another availability zone then from instance         Step 7: No te EBS ID of new volume

This post describes how to login to Windows server on AWS       Step 1: Login to AWS console     Step 2: Click on EC2   Step 3: Go to Instances   Step 4: Right click on instance and select Get windows password       Step 5: It will prompt for security key     Step 6: Copy content of certificate key which was downloaded at the time of Keypair creation      Step 7: It will show administrator password.  Note this password to login to server     Step 8: Note down public DNS name of server to access it   Step 9: Use RDP tool to access the instance launched on AWS   Step 10: Enter administrator password which we have obtained in earlier steps