HOWTO: Setup IIS 7.5 to use IPv6
I took the SANS 546 class today, and it got me thinking about setting up my server to respond to IPv6 hosts. Steps thus far are pretty straightforward: Get an account with a tunnel broker Configure...
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Supporting ancient hardware
Today we’ll be working on some moldy oldies! I give you the SGI Indigo, and it’s successor the SGI Octane! Bow in front of their immense glory! Here is the problem: We have research analysis software...
View ArticleSCCM + Dell – ServiceTag = HEADACHE
Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything and this will most likely be the last post before I hop platforms, but since the resolution took nearly my whole morning I felt it was worthy a...
View ArticleNew Home
It’s been forever since I’ve posted anything, a lot has gone on in my work and family life. I don’t have the time I used to have to tinker around with hosting my own stuff. I had thought about moving...
View ArticleRepository and Blog
I migrated over all my scripts late last night, it only took about an hour. I think part of the problem was on my end, I had to basically restart the sync several times to get everything over. The...
View ArticleDefrag is not defragging
I posted a question in the forums the other day after attempting to defrag one of the drives on my file server. The drive in question is where we have all the application installation files for the...
View ArticleLibrary updates
I have updated all my PowerShell libraries to be uniformly formatted and corrected any missing information. The wiki pages for each have also been updated. Tomorrow I plan on cleaning up the blog and...
View ArticleRDP over SSH
Before I start, while this will allow you to access your servers over a secure tunnel, this does not mean you should forego patching your systems. Don’t be that kind of admin, install the patches,...
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Windows Server 8 Beta Failover Clustering Part 1
I read a very nice article over on TechNet about some of the new features of Failover Clustering in Windows 8, so I decided to give it a spin. It’s not too bad, I’m really enjoying the new Server...
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Windows Server 8 Beta Failover Clustering Part 2
There were so many images that I decided to split this up over several posts. In Part 1, I got the Failover Cluster feature installed on my first server, and now I’m going to work through the Failover...
View ArticleWindows Server 8 Beta Failover Clustering and PowerShell
So the last two posts (one, two) were just some screenshots and comments as I went through and created a failover cluster. To be fair this wasn’t the first go round with the cluster I created one...
View ArticlePowerShell New-AdInventory script
I may have mentioned on here before that we rely quite heavily on Active Directory, and it’s true. It’s at the core of nearly all the services we deliver, the only exception would be the web, and that...
View ArticleExitCodes Part 2
So, yesterday I mentioned that I re-wrote the inventory script. Today I decided to re-write the reboot script. The idea behind the script is that once a week we bounce all the lab computers. We do this...
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Windows EventLog Management–Part 1
Using Event Triggers and Event Forwarding to get what you want from the Event Subsystem Event logs are horrible, and depending on which log you’re looking at they could be even more horrible! Seriously...
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Windows EventLog Management–Part2
How to get the log to let you know when something happened Event Triggers Specify a custom action when a particular event occurs Start a program Send an email Display a message Use scripting to give...
View ArticleWeekly DPM Monitoring
Part of my responsibility is handling storage. This includes allocating, deallocating, backing up and restoring. Now we’ve been using DPM for quite some time and are currently running on DPM 2010....
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DPM Sizing Script
Yesterday I told you how I had decided to automate a portion of my DPM routine. As usual this got the fires burning and a second script was born. I would have told you about it yesterday but I wanted...
View ArticleUpdated New-PrintJob script
The information I’m going to cover here was previously covered on TechNet. I’m posting this because this morning I came across an error in my PrintLogger script.To be fair it was an error in the...
View ArticleHA/FDM fails to restart a virtual machine with the error: Failed to open file...
This came across my newsfeed last night and this morning, and before I lose the links I thought I’d post them up here. VMware KB article Description of the Problem Perl script to detect and resolve...
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RedHat 6 Enterprise + VMware VSphere 4.0
Odd thing happened today while I was setting up a server for someone. The RHEL 6 install went just fine, it found the network card, asked if I wanted to configure it via DHCP and all that. When the...
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