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A few days ago my old Synology DS1515+ that I gave a friend wouldn’t power up. Press the power button and not a single thing would happen, no fans or lights would come on – not even for a second.

I started looking around and found there to be three common issues with several of the DSxx15 units:

1. Dead motherboard battery
2. Intel Atom C2000 bug
3. Dead B847B transistor

Good stuff right?! Well luckily it’s not nearly as bad as it might sound at first and all three are pretty easy to fix.

Here lately I’ve been doing more and more Microsoft Exchange Server security and cumulative updates and it never fails I get started into the update and it never fails the upgrade fails with the following error:

This year marked my first year of going to VMworld and before I left I asked several people and the Twitter’s on advice and overwhelmingly the advice was wear comfortable shoes and to be social and talk with as many people as you can. I can’t tell you just how much those two pieces of advice are really worth.

While I was at VMworld several people told me being social has helped them immensely. From getting help when problems arise to landing their new dream job and everything in between. I even talked to a few people that was there but wasn’t really involved in the community and wanted to know how to get started.

For me blogging has been one of the better things I’ve done as it’s not only helped me learn new things, but also help teach others. It’s something I enjoy, thought don’t do as often as I like, and figured I’d start there – how to start a blog.

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It’s that time of year again – time to vote for your favorite blog and podcast!

Just as he has every year, Eric Siebert from vSphere-Land.com has kicked off voting for the 2017 Top vBlog and will remain open until June 30th 2017! Eric has also made a few suggestions on what to keep in mind when voting which I certainly agree with and can be found

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I would like to welcome my new site sponsor, SolarWinds. SolarWinds offers a large variety of tools, management, monitoring, and analyizers for various systems.

The one tool many readers of this blog might find more interesting is their Virtualization Manager which offers capacity planning, VM Right-Sizing, various management reports and system monitoring and works with both VMware and Hyper-V.

Be sure to check out the video demo below, they are also offering a 30 day free trial!

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