SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
Getting Started With Office 365
Summary: This wiki post describes some basic steps on getting started with Office 365, and especially on how to setup your email and first user.
Date: Around 2019
Refactor: 17 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
In this post the following technologies are discussed:
- Office 365 Trial
- Office 365 Domains
- Office 365 Users
- Office 365 Exchange Online
NFS Client for Windows
Summary: How to install the NFS Client for Windows.
Date: Around 2012
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
I needed to access some AIX and linux NFS shares so I tried to find a tool to access the NFS shares. After searching some more I found there is a NFS client included with Windows, you just have to download the software and install it.
If you're looking for more info regarding this on Windows Server 2008 and Red Hat click here.
Reinitialize and Reset a NetApp to Factory Defaults
Summary: How to wipe a Netapp Filer back to its factory defaults.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Note: Following this procedure will leave you with a useless machine. You'll only have a few commands, so no filerview etc to work with. You need to reinstall ONTAP and need to re-apply all licenses. Make a backup of your licenses and make sure your support contract allows you to receive a new ONTAP version, since this is not available for download. See NetApp: A Complete Setup of a Netapp Filer for a manual on how to proceed after you've done the reinitialization.
We had a filer with some very sensitive information on it that had to be destroyed (in front of an auditor) before it was allowed to reuse the filer. This was the procedure we followed:
- Connect to the filer through a console cable. For this we simply used Putty that also has the option to connect to your serial/COM port.
- Issued the command “reboot” to reboot the filer.
- Wait for the autoboot to start and when asked for it pressed <CTRL>+C to enter the special boot menu.
- Choose option 4a to reinitialize (zero) all the disks and automatically create a flexvol root volume.
- Confirm this twice
- Wait for a long time, and at the end of the procedure you get a setup sequence with options for naming your filer etc.
See the screenshots below so you'll know when to press what: Issue the reboot:
And this is what happens:
Afterwards you get messages that your disks are zeroed and that your aggregate has been added to the system:
Then the initialization of the network and storage starts, which ends with the setup sequence which starts with providing the new hostname:
NetApp Type And Serial
Summary: How to get the type and serial number of a Netapp Filer.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
If you have access to the filer it's quite easy to determine the type and serial number of the filer.