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 […]
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 […]
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