I had the need recently to test how a product responded when it hit its max bandwidth but didn’t want to saturate our connection. Having used tc before I was pretty sure it could do the job. A quick google search found some nice scripts such as this one by Nathan Salt. The problem I […]
I was working on filtering a large json file using the select() and contains() functions of jq, but I kept getting an error like the above. I found a few articles, but none of them complete made sense of what was going on. Finally I figured out that some of the objects within my json […]
I had a need to display the IP configuration information on the default TTY console login screen of Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Bionic Beaver. Basically we needed a way to see what the IP was set to without having to login. There were a few articles (like this from offbytwo.com) out there about ways to do […]
A bit of a short post, but I was having issues getting Ubuntu to install from the ISO on Hyper-V. I’m not going to rehash setting up the VM. This article on LinuxHint.com does a good job covering the basics. The issue I was experiencing is that despite the DVD (mounting the ISO) was listed […]
I don’t have screenshots of this, but I figured it is worth writing up because we couldn’t find any reference to this scenario. Hopefully it will help others. The Problem We had an Office 365 portal for a while for Exchange Online Protection and a few other things. As a global admin, I had enabled […]
Recently I had the “opportunity” to play with boot from iSCSI SAN with Windows 2012 R2. This wasn’t the original design but sometimes you have to roll with the punches…and there were a lot of punches on this project. This will not be a “How To” as most of the steps are outlined in […]
Ever had to change a domain administrator’s password and had the sinking feeling that some bozo had setup a Windows service to run as that user. If you only have a couple servers it isn’t that big a deal to check each manually, but if you have a lot it can be a problem. […]
If you’ve ever had to put a large number of 2008+ Windows Terminal/Remote Desktop servers in “drain mode” using the gui admin tool, you know it can be slow and tedious. Faced with doing this on a Saturday night for about 30 servers I decided to make life a little quicker and easier by building a […]
After beating my head against the wall for a while trying to figure out the settings for connecting Symantec Backup Exec 2012 to an OST container on a Dell DR4000 I finally figured it out. The instructions seemed simple enough but they left off a few key details. I’m going to assume some familiarity with […]
After manually setting up email Alarm notifications for numerous vSphere deployments I decided it was time to harness PowerCLI and automate the process. I found numerous examples of people who had already done this before me, so I figured it would be pretty easy. It looks like the guys at VMPros.nl built a script that […]
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