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❤️er of Platform Engineering, SRE, K8s, Golang, Observability and working with nice humans. Aussie living in the Netherlands.

  1. How To Run VirtualBox on WHS 2001 - Part 2

    Hello, The old hodgkins.net.au blog has been re-directed here. The VirtualBox article is out of date, but you can find a screenshot from the old article below. …

  2. How To Run VirtualBox on WHS 2001 - Part 1

    Hello, The old hodgkins.net.au blog has been re-directed here. The VirtualBox article is out of date, but you can find a screenshot from the old article below. …

  3. Enabling Serialized Hyper-V Virtual Machine Backups in DPM 2010 RC

    Hello, The old hodgkins.net.au blog has been re-directed here. The Enabling Serialized Hyper-V Virtual Machine Backups in DPM 2010 RC article is out of date, but you can find a screenshot from the old article below. The ListVMsOnClusterForDPM script is also available for download. …

  4. Resending Reporting Services Email Subscriptions When Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting Microsoft Reporting Services email subscriptions can be a pain. How many times have you created a new subscription a few minutes in advance and not received it, then you are unsure if you set the schedule time correctly, or if you pressed the save button, or if the fix you made to reporting services didn’t work? It’s a time consuming process, but thankfully, there is a better way. Instead, you can run some SQL...…

  5. How To Fix Hyper-V Migration Attempt Failed

    If you are running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and have a SAN available, Hyper-V Live migration is a great way to make your Virtual Machines highly available. There is nothing like being able to migrate your VM’s to another node in the cluster and shutdown a host to perform maintenance – I still get excited every time I live migrate a machine! In some cases though, your Live Migration attempt may fail. Unfortunately...…