I’ve managed to get access to the 3D Printer…. what fun can I have, and what can I print…
The Ultimaker 2 3D Printer
3D Printing
3D Printing
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3D Printing A Mobius Bangle using an Ultimaker 2
Thursday, September 4th, 2014Mircosoft and Me!
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014and most of you that know me, are probably saying, I thought he was a fan of VMware!
so one of my Article’s ends up on Microsoft Technet UK Blog, as I’m now a member of the Microsoft Technical Community Council.
Here’s the article on Microsoft Technet UK Blog
Migrating 2008 R2 Hyper-V VMs to 2012
(oh, and there’s a recent photograph of me as well, proudly wearing the Microsoft Technical Community Council shirt!)
Invited to join the Microsoft Technical Community Council (MTCC)
Friday, August 8th, 2014After my visit to Lotus F1, I was asked my Microsoft Technet UK if I wanted to join the Microsoft Technical Community Council (MTCC). The MTCC is described as “a group of external IT professionals influential in the IT Pro world, who are engaged and interested in sharing their opinions and meet once a month via a Lync call”.
Microsoft Technical Community Council (MTCC)
Today, I received the MTCC shirt…
So after signing the NDA, I’m now a member of the MTCC. All of the members feedback to Microsoft with real world experience of implementing Microsoft Technologies, and we get to understand the Microsoft road ahead.
Experts Exchange new Branding and Logos Pick a new Badge! @ExpertsExchange
Thursday, May 29th, 2014Go to the rewards section of your Profile and pick a new Badge
New Look Experts Exchange @ExpertsExchange
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014All upgraded, WOW, there’s a lot of white, and Windows 8.0 sliding panels (which I hate!)
I’ll hold judgement, ALL change!
New Look Experts Exchange
Experts Exchange Site Down, Whilst it’s Upgraded for Experts Exchange (The Next Generation)…..!!! @ExpertsExchange
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
Experts Exchange Is Temporarily Unavailable
Andy’s “Career” @ExpertsExchange
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014One the day, that Experts Exchange enters a new era, with a re-brand and overhaul, and a change of logo! I thought it was fitting for a bit of self promotion and Giga-EGO Boost!
It’s also fitting, that in the last two days, I’ve now entered the Top 10 Overall Experts at Experts Exchange in the Hall of Frame,
I’ve been at the Number 11 spot, for many months, and finally jumped two positions to Number 9.
Experts Exchange Hall of Frame
The Hall of Fame, is a little false, because in the top 10, there are only two really active Experts, myself and Ray Paseur, so that makes Ray No.1 and me No.2, so I’m happy with that!
Also, I didn’t blog about it at the time, but last year, I won the following awards
In November I was nominated an MVE in the Gamma Class
The Tenth Annual Expert Awards
Expert of the Year 2013
Yes, I’m Expert of the Year 2013 – Again for the Third Year in a row!
2013 Expert of the Year
2013 Juggernaut
2013 The Ally
2013 The Scribe
2013 Author of the Year
The 10th Annual Expert Awards of 2013
I missed out on the Titan by 0.02%
| Andrew Hancock | VMware | 52.90 |
| Andrew Hancock | Virtualization | 43.19 |
I’ve now had 47 Articles Published at Experts Exchange
- How to Backup an ESXi installation on an USB Flash Drive or SD card, for security or redundancy(Link) May 8, 2011
- VMware ESX/ESXi Backup Guide(Link) May 9, 2011
- HOW TO: Improve the transfer rate of a Physical to Virtual (P2V), Virtual to Virtual Conversion (V2V) using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0(Link) January 8, 2012
- HOW TO: Enable Jumbo Frames on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5.0) host server using the VMware vSphere Client(Link) January 8, 2012
- HOW TO: Suppress Configuration Issues and Warnings Alert displayed in Summary status for ESXi 4.1 U2 or ESXi 5.0 after enabling SSH or ESXi Shell(Link) January 9, 2012
- HOW TO: Suppress Configuration Issues and Warnings Alerts after enabling vSphere HA in a VMware vSphere Cluster(Link) January 10, 2012
- HOW TO: Add Local Storage (e.g. a SATA disk) as a Raw Disk Mapping (RDM) or Mapped RAW LUN to a virtual machine hosted on ESXi(Link) January 11, 2012
- HOW TO: Add an iSCSI Software Adaptor and Create an iSCSI Multipath Network in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 4.1(Link) January 14, 2012
- HOW TO: Add an iSCSI Software Adaptor and Create an iSCSI Multipath Network in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0(Link) January 19, 2012
- HOW TO: Clone or Copy a virtual machine in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x or ESXi 5.0(Link) January 19, 2012
- HOW TO: Tutorial Video – Install VMware Tools for Linux on a VMware Linux virtual machine(Link) January 21, 2012
- HOW TO: Add and Connect a USB Device to a Virtual Machine, hosted on VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX 4.1 ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.0(Link) January 22, 2012
- HOW TO: VMware Snapshots :- Be Patient(Link) May 23, 2012
- HOW TO: Performance Monitor vSphere 4.x or 5.0(Link) May 23, 2012
- HOW TO: VCP 5(Link) May 23, 2012
- HOW TO: Resize a VMware (VMDK) Virtual Disk(Link) May 23, 2012
- HOW TO: P2V, V2V for FREE – VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0(Link) May 23, 2012
- HOW TO: Suppress Configuration Issues and Warnings Alerts after enabling vSphere HA in a VMware vSphere Cluster with only a single datastore(Link) June 1, 2012
- HOW TO: Use Dell OpenManage Server Administrator to Create and Manage a Virtual Disk (RAID Array) on a Dell PowerEdge Server with VMware vSphere 5.0, ESXi 5.0 installed.(Link) July 24, 2012
- HOW TO: Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive of Microsoft Windows Server 2012(Link) August 29, 2012
- HOW TO: “Live Migrate” VMware Virtual Machines between ESX/ESXi hosts and/or datastores for FREE without licenses for vMotion or Storage vMotion(Link) September 24, 2012
- HOW TO: Tag and Configure a storage device as a Solid State Disk (SSD) in VMware vSphere 5.0 or 5.1 (ESXi 5.0 or ESXi 5.1)(Link) November 29, 2012
- HOW TO: Configure Host Cache Configuration for your VMware vSphere 5.0 or 5.1 ESXi (5.0 or 5.1) Host Server(Link) December 9, 2012
- HOW TO: Install and Configure VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1)(Link) January 19, 2013
- HOW TO: Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) using the vSphere Client(Link) January 22, 2013
- HOW TO: P2V, V2V for FREE – VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1(Link) April 26, 2013
- HOW TO: Synchronize changes when completing a P2V or V2V with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1(Link) April 30, 2013
- HOW TO: Add a Dell EqualLogic PS Series Array (SAN) to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 as a SMP Provider(Link) May 18, 2013
- HOW TO: Create an ISO CD-ROM/DVD-ROM image (*.iso), and MD5 checksum signature, for use with VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1)(Link) May 21, 2013
- HOW TO: Upload an ISO CD-ROM/DVD-ROM image to a VMware datastore for use with VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) using the vSphere Client, and checking its MD5 checksum signature is correct(Link) May 25, 2013
- HOW TO: Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1)(Link) May 25, 2013
- HOW TO: Create your first Linux Virtual Machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server(Link) June 15, 2013
- HOW TO: Create your first Windows Virtual Machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server(Link) June 18, 2013
- HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Windows on a VMware Windows virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server(Link) June 20, 2013
- HOW TO: Migrate a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) to a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host server(Link) September 10, 2013
- HOW TO: P2V, V2V for FREE – VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5(Link) October 23, 2013
- HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Linux on a VMware Linux virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server(Link) October 30, 2013
- HOW TO: Backup (Export) and Restore (Import) virtual machines to VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 for FREE(Link) October 31, 2013
- HOW TO: Upgrade from VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.1 to VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.5 for FREE(Link) November 2, 2013
- HOW TO: What’s New in VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.5 (ESXi 5.5)(Link)November 27, 2013
- HOW TO: Select the right answer to “I Moved It” or “I Copied It” in VMware vSphere (ESXi)(Link) November 27, 2013
- HOW TO: FAQ VMware P2V Troubleshooting(Link) December 13, 2013
- HOW TO: Suppress Configuration Issues System logs on host are stored on non-persistent storage(Link) December 18, 2013
- HOW TO: Configure and Replace the SSL Certificate on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server(Link) November 19, 2013
- HOW TO: Enhance the performance “speed up” the VMware vSphere Web Client in 15 minutes(Link) February 5, 2014
- HOW TO: Shrink a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) in 15 minutes(Link) February 6, 2014
- HOW TO: Convert and Migrate virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V and Windows Azure(Link) April 11, 2014
The NEW Experts Exchange is almost here… @ExpertsExchange
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014The NEW Experts Exchange is almost here… New look. New direction. Same great tech … Experts Exchange (The Next Generation) is almost here.
Two Days at Lotus F1 Team courtesy of Microsoft & @lotus_f1team @1MikeyT @TechNetUK
Thursday, April 10th, 2014All work and no play, makes jack a dull boy so I was told when I was a little boy!, I had the opportunity to visit the Lotus F1 Team at Enstone, Oxfordshire for a Microsoft IT Camp on the 8th and 9th April 2014, the days were entitled
Day 1: – Managing the Data Center with Windows Server and Microsoft System Center
Day 2: : Journey to the Cloud with Windows Azure: Microsoft IT Camp
Here are a sample of some photographs I took, there are 141 more here hosted at Google.
Two days, I will remember of a long time, I had an excellent time, and learnt some golden Microsoft nuggets, to take back to the Office, so it was not all about the cars!
Thanks to Guys and Gals at UK Technet, and Michael Taylor @ Lotus F1 Team for two great days.
Andy on a Lotus F1 Racing Car!
Lotus F1 Team Formula 1 Racing Car
Lotus F1 Team Steering Wheel
Pokémon Challenge Google Maps: – I’m a Pokémon Master!
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014You’ll need to watch the Pokémon Challenge Google Maps, to understand, and collect all 185 Pokémon!
PS The Challenge has ended, it was for 1st April 2014 only!
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