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 […]
I had a need to set all members of a group so that their Office 365 (aka Microsoft Online) passwords never expire. Didn’t take too long but I though it was worth sharing. I also added output to show the setting was changed. This could certainly be prettier but it is what it is. Pre-Reqs […]
Just worked on a test(luckily) Exchange 2010 server with a customer. When they opened the Exchange Management Console, the Server Configuration was missing and they couldn’t change the properties of any the mailboxes. When they opened the mailbox properties they saw these little lock symbols all over the place. When they ran the command “Get-Mailbox” […]
I’ve written several PowerShell scripts to help customers adjust permissions to their directory structures when migrating from other file servers(Linux/Samba, Novell OES/Netware, etc). Part of these scripts includes assigning ownership for the user. While this tends to take a long time quotas and file reporting are worthless if the administrator that copied everything is assigned […]
So I logged into a server that was setup by another administrator using RDP to configure some software. For whatever reason it is requesting a reboot, so I let it reboot before I start my work. After the server comes back up I attempt to connect and get a “The connection cannot continue because the […]
This will be a quick post. I was trying to find/remember the syntax to add multiple email addresses to a single “Send a notification email” action and I couldn’t find it documented anywhere. So I tested and confirmed that all that is required is using a “;” between the email addresses as shown below. Update […]
Recently I’ve been setting up mirroring of Microsoft SQL databases. While the steps required are well documented on Technet (which is where I learned), they are spread over several pages. There is no single list of steps so I decided to put one together documenting how I setup mirroring using SQL Server Management Studio. What […]
I was recreating a login script for a client that mapped a drive to the location of their redirected My Documents. Because they were in the middle of a migration the My Documents could be in a different spot depending on if a user had been migrated to a new environment or not. So I […]
Frequently while performing network assessments I need to assemble a list of all the programs installed on servers. Going to Add/Remove Programs and writing it down is a tedious process. Installing applications like Belarc Advisor is a bit more intrusive then I want to be on another companies servers. After some research today I found two […]
Recently I needed to get a Cisco ASA 5510 to use a RADIUS Server on Server 2008 to authenticate Active Directory users for VPN access. The ASA was already configured to use a Server 2003 RADIUS server, so much of the below was just replicating the existing configuration on a 2008 server. I suspect many […]
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