When expanding the disk size of a VMWare virtual machine or deleting a disk, sometimes it is hard to understand which VMware virtual disk matches the specific Windows VM disk. If there are few disks and they differ by their size, it is easy to find the disk you need. But what to do if several VMDK (or RDM) disks of the same size or several virtual SCSI controllers have been created for a VM? How to avoid errors and select the disk a Windows administrator asks you to expand (or shrink)?
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- Adding Sound Controller to a VMWare VM
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- Active DirectoryGroup PoliciesWindows 11Windows Server 2022
Creating Desktop Shortcuts using Group Policy (GPO)
January 16, 2025Using Group Policies, you can create a shortcut to a specific application and deploy it to the desktops of all users in the domain (or to specific users only). This…
- Active DirectoryWindows Server 2022
Restoring Active Directory Domain Controller from a Backup
January 31, 2025In this article, we’ll show how to restore the Active Directory domain controller from a previously created System State backup (see the Active Directory backup post), and discuss the types…
- Active DirectoryWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Unable to Access SYSVOL and NETLOGON folders from Windows 10
May 10, 2023I noticed some strange things when trying to access SYSVOL and NETLOGON folders in the domain from Windows 10/Windows Server 2016. When I tried to access the domain by the…
In this article, we’ll consider a high-available failover configuration of two squid (Linux) proxy servers to access the Internet from a corporate LAN. To build a failover configuration we are…
- Windows 10Windows 11Windows Server 2019
How to View and Clear RDP Connections History in Windows
March 11, 2024The built-in Windows Remote Desktop Connection client (mstsc.exe) saves the remote computer name (or IP address) and the username that is used to log in after each successful connection to…
Mbr2gpt.exe is a new built-in Windows 10 console tool that allows you to convert a disk with the MBR (Master Boot Record) partition table to a GPT (GUID Partition Table)…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2022
Backing Up Active Directory with Windows Server Backup
November 26, 2024In this article, we’ll cover how to back up Active Directory domain controllers and enable automatic AD backups using PowerShell and the built-in Windows Server Backup feature.
- Windows 10Windows 11
How to Upgrade Windows Build from an ISO File with Setup.exe CMD
November 7, 2024The standard setup.exe installer in the Windows distro can be used to interactively install the operating system or update the OS version (install the feature update) on the computer. In…
- LinuxVirtualizationWindows Server 2019
KVM: How to Expand or Shrink a Virtual Machine Disk Size?
March 11, 2024In this article we’ll talk about how to resize KVM virtual machine disks for popular disk types. We’ll show how to correctly increase a virtual machine disk size in the…