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.
ESX Adding Custom Drivers
Summary: How to install custom hardware drivers in ESX 4.1.
Date: Around 2012
Refactor: 22 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Installing ESX 4.1 (update 1) on IBM x3690 X5 Servers requires custom drivers.
You can use the driver CD in several ways:
- To install drivers for devices as part of a new ESX installation
- To update existing drivers or install new drivers for an existing ESX installation with esxupdate
- To update existing drivers or install new drivers for an existing ESX or ESXi installation with vihostupdate
ADMT Requirements
Summary: What are the requirements to use the Active Directory Migration Tool
Date: Around 20012
Refactor: 20 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
We are planning to do an Active Directory Migration using the ADMT tool provided by Microsoft. The requirements however are not well explained and certainly not at one place. This page will provide all the requirements with extra information if needed.
Note that this article will keep the following versions in mind:
- Source domain: AD 2003
- Target domain: AD 2008 R2
- ADMT version: 3.2
- PES version: 3.1
Draw IO
Summary: Working with Draw IO you can publish or embed diagrams that resemble visio functionality.
Date: Around 2020
Refactor: 21 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Note: In the year 2025 I prefer the drawio extension for vscode.
Starting with .Net in Azure DevOps
Summary: In this post I'll create an Azure VM with Visual Studio Community installed, and use that to generate a sample .Net Core application so we can test builds and deployments with Azure DevOps.
Date: Around 2021
Refactor: 21 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.