At some point, I had a desire to list all the computer accounts for any server OS in Active Directory. I am pretty sure that I did a search and found the script below, but I don’t remember where, so whoever wrote it doesn’t get credit this time… $strCategory = “computer” $strOperatingSystem = “Windows*Server*” $objDomain… Continue reading Servers in Domain
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TechNet wiki…
So a TechNet wiki is coming, as stated by Keith Combs here: three big things we focus on for all TechNet scenarios are Content, Discoverability, and Participation. We really want to invite participation from everyone and what better way to combine that with discovery and content than to use Wiki technology? Later this year TechNet and… Continue reading TechNet wiki…
Influencers Blog
So the System Center guys have provided a place for people who work with System Center products to see a conglomeration of posts from various professionals who have registered to Blog about System Center products. How fun… Blog Posts by System Center Influencers Get the feed. Below are the most recent posts from several of… Continue reading Influencers Blog
An online pack already exists…
Situation: I have a 32bit file server running Windows Server 2003. I have a new 2008 R2 (x64) file server running on Hyper-V. Did I mention that the R2 server is on Clustered hosts? This is all simple. Just drop the LUNs from the file server, give them to the cluster and assign them as… Continue reading An online pack already exists…
Error installing Integration Services on Hyper-V VM
I was trying to change from a “Legacy Network Adapter” to a “Network Adapter” on one of my Hyper-V VMs. I added the “Network Adapter” and removed the “Legacy Network Adapter”, and started the machine up. When the machine came up, it wouldn’t connect to the network. Having seen this before I knew exactly how… Continue reading Error installing Integration Services on Hyper-V VM
Error installing DPM 2010 Beta
I was installing the DPM 2010 Beta (finally) and had an issue trying to get the SQL 2008 to install. Finally figured out that I had the install files stored too deeply in a network share. I figure this out by running the SQL install directly and when it when to check prereq’s it had… Continue reading Error installing DPM 2010 Beta
Data Protection Manager 2010
So I am a bit late realizing this, but the Beta for DPM 2010 is available now on the Connect site. I haven’t read anything on it yet, so mainly I am just posting this to make myself look into it. https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=840&DownloadID=22070
How to remove a Persistent Reservation on a DS4700
We use a couple of IBM DS4700 storage controllers at my work, and I had one configured with a Windows 2008 Hyper-V cluster. The cluster was for testing (I am building a new one on R2 for production) and when I went to remove everything that had been used for testing, I came up against… Continue reading How to remove a Persistent Reservation on a DS4700
Using XML in your PowerShell scripting
I have written a lot of scripts that use .txt files to read or store data, but I have a need to read some information from an .xml file. This could be done by treating the file as a simple txt file, but it would require some pretty good filtering that is already a part… Continue reading Using XML in your PowerShell scripting
Monitoring drive space
One of the things that we spend a lot of time on is trying to keep track of what servers have enough free space. We have a lot of different tools to check drive space, and we even use some of them from time to time. We have a pretty complicated system created by Rickey… Continue reading Monitoring drive space