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Forwarding Events from WS08 Core DC
There was some changes between Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the one I’m interested in is WinRM. The default HTTP port on Windows Server 2008 is TCP 80, but on Windows Server 2008 R2...
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How to attach a custom task to an event on WS08
In an earlier post I talked about how to forward events from one machine to another. That works out quite well, but unless you’re sitting at the log and watching the events go by, you might miss...
View ArticleWhat to do when you receive a truly horrible request
I’m fairly certain this happens more often than not. A user fashion’s an email, than in their mind makes perfect and complete sense. They blithely send this email off to you, without care to the damage...
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“Single node cluster” oxymoron or reality?
You might be asking yourself, what? how? why? To be honest I asked myself the very same questions. I don’t purport to have all the answers to these important questions, but I have found a few...
View ArticleRedeeming my IT card
So flat in the middle of standing up a new file server cluster and writing about it, in draft, and tweeted a few things that Carson nailed me on. First, I am just slightly annoyed at how the Dell...
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Fun things to know and share about a Dell PowerEdge NX3000 NAS Appliance
This was originally going to be a post about setting up a cluster on the NX3000, but I’ve had some fun messing around with them, so I thought I would share that and make a second post for the setup....
View ArticleWindows Exit Codes and Error Codes
So historically we have rebooted the lab computers once a week. The reason for doing this originally was to clear our local profile data, and empty the temp and scratch folders. In order to do this...
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Evolution and Exchange 2010
So you want Evolution to attach to Exchange natively, not unlike Outlook? The simple answer to your question is evolution-mapi. This lovely plugin allows you to connect over MAPI, to an Exchange...
View ArticleSCCM and Windows 2008R2 Failover Clustering
So yesterday we were able to migrate our existing Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 file cluster to the Windows 2008 equivalent of the same. It has been a long time in the works as we had to wait on Dell...
View ArticleWindows Server Core 2008 R2 File Server
In order to work around an issue we are currently experiencing with System Center Configuration Manager and Windows 2008 R2 Failover Clustering, we need to setup a file server. I decided to set this up...
View ArticleManaging a Server Core fileserver
So, you want to manage that Server Core now I suppose. Well, ok but you will need to do a few things first… As we all know, there isn’t much of an interface on a Core server, just a command shell. For...
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Welcome to the new site
I’ve been running on an OpenVZ server from PhotonVPS for quite some time now. That server was running on Ubuntu Server 9.10 (I was wrong Carson), and the site was running on Django. I’ve had no...
View ArticleUpdated Theme
So I’ve spent the past few days working up a new theme for the site. I’ve been wanting something that looked similar to a newspaper, and I think I came pretty close. I used the NY Times, LA Times, and...
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Google Reader feed to Blogengine blogroll.xml
So I wanted the list of blogs I follow in Google Reader to be displayed on my website. Blogengine uses XML files for just about everything, so I decided I would see how difficult it was to convert the...
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Customized DOS Shell
A fair amount of my time is spent at the command-line, and as such I want it to work in a particular way. Since I don’t want to lose this information the next time I need to set this up, I figured I’d...
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PowerShell
It’s been over a month since I’ve posted anything and a lot has been going on. I’ve decided that this year I actually will move from VBscript over to PowerShell. I have restructured my scripts repo...
View ArticleSubversion auto-prop’s
I’ve been really busy working with and learning PowerShell and dutifully committing my code into my subversion repo. For the most part it’s been really fun and I’ve not had too many problems. What I...
View ArticlePreparing to upgrade DC’s to Windows Server 2008 R2
We decided it was time to move to R2 on the domain controllers, while we’re at it we also moved up to Windows 2008 Functional. Sadly we can’t go to 2008r2 functional until our last 2008 DC goes out of...
View ArticleDo you suffer from “Premature Installation”?
Or, “What’s in a name?” Turns out a whole hell of a lot! First I need to thanks Nick for the awesome title, as he completely pinpointed my issue after I told him what happened! The last article I...
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