Get recent events from servers
I’ve been working with Microsoft on an issue that I am having with my DPM server. We have been doing some fairly intense logging, and today I enable several performance counters in an attempt to...
View ArticleExporting Event logs in the normal Event Log format
I’ve decided that I’d like to be able to export my event logs in their native .evtx file format. This appears to be faster than converting them all to .csv files. Early on I ran into a few problems,...
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VMware Update Manager not responding
I received a lovely notice this morning as I was working through my servers and performing updates. I decided I would check my ESXi servers for updates using the VMware Update Manager plugin. This...
View ArticlePrinting from a Scheduled Task as a different user
It does sound a bit odd, but I’m in the process of moving all the regular monitoring I do to scheduled tasks, and this particular one caused me headaches all afternoon. I have a script that I run that...
View ArticleManaging Hotfixes Centrally
Historically I’ve not paid much attention to hotfixes or patches, but lately I’ve decided that I need to change that aspect of my management. I used to create a folder on the server that had the...
View ArticleDPM 2010 console crashes when pushing an agent Install
This is a new one for me, I’ve been running DPM for quite a while now and I’ve not seen this behavior. In a recent staff meeting it came up that the DPM server was having some RPC issues, so since I’m...
View ArticleSCOM 2007 R2 and Get-Event
For whatever reason I’ve not been able to find what I’ve been looking for regarding this cmdlet. Namely a decent example of it’s use with regards to the –Criteria parameter. For better or worse I have...
View ArticleOperations Manager, Orchestrator and PowerShell Remoting
It’s been a very long time since I last posted, the primary reason is most likely laziness on my part and secondly I’ve not had a lot to write about. Recently I’ve been messing around with Orchestrator...
View ArticleHyper-V Server 2012 Cluster with Powershell Deployment Toolkit
I recently came across a lovely show on Channel 9. It talks about setting up a simple Hyper-V Server 2012 cluster for use in a lab or test environment or whatever. I won’t go over the details, watch...
View ArticleSetspn.exe wrapper
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so I thought I would post about setspn, because you know, it’s so awesome right? So one of the projects I’ve been working on lately is the upgrade to SCCM...
View ArticleDSC Part 1
Desired State Configuration is a new feature of PowerShell 4.0 that is included out of the box with Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. This feature can be loaded on down-level clients by...
View ArticleDSC Part 2
In my previous article I talked about Desired State Configuration in a more or less generic way. I provided a sample Configuration that installed the basic services needed for a web server. This...
View ArticleDSC Part 3
It’s been a busy day, I haven’t posted anything since July and today three posts! Well in Part 1 we talked about what Desired State Configuration was, in Part 2 I showed you how to manually setup the...
View ArticleShowing off some DSC Resources
Yesterday I wrote three articles ( Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ) about Desired State Configuration. I thought I would post a slightly more complex Configuration. This configuration performs several actions...
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Week In Review : 05/25/2014
Well it’s been forever since I’ve written anything interesting so now is as good a time as any. Recently we were informed we needed to start keeping track of time spent on projects and since this is...
View ArticleSystem Center Orchestrator PowerShell Module
This is one I’ve had on the back burner for a while, so yesterday morning I roughed up the basic framework for a PowerShell module. I have a few Runbooks at work, that it would be super cool to just...
View ArticleWeek In Review : 06/01/2014
Another very productive week! Spent a lot of time on Operations Manager, and getting the Low-Privilege SQL Monitoring to work. There appears to be a problem with how the MP calculates PLE and is using...
View ArticleWeek In Review : 06/08/2014
Still a lot of programming this week, but like I said before I think anymore that is more the norm than not. We did some interesting Active Directory stuff this week. We had a handful of servers get...
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Week In Review : 06-15-2014
It’s time for another exciting edition of WIR! This week was filled with updates! Rolled updates to our Domain Controllers and one of them took nearly two hours to come back from a reboot! Normally not...
View ArticleWeek In Review : 06-22-2014
Not a terribly eventful week, I’ve been working on tuning Ops down and clearing out the errors, and lowering the signal to noise ratio. One of the hardest ones has been the domain trust monitor in the...
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