This is more of a dialog of the process that I went through in troubleshooting an issue. This particular issue I think would be rare, as there are only a few situations where total closure from the Internet is actually required or implemented, but the process itself provides a potentially useful guide on logging and
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Month: April 2015
Installing Nimble Connection Manager Toolkit Silently
If you want to install the Nimble Connection Manager for Windows silently, you will need to specify a couple of options at the command line: Setup-NimbleNWT-x64.2.2.3.432.exe /S /v/qb- INSTALLDIR=\””C:\Program Files\Nimble Storage\”” NLOGSDIR=\””C:\Program Files\Nimble Storage\Logs\”” /norestart The important section is the NLOGSDIR. If this option is not specified then you will get a MSIEXEC Error 1606:
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PowerShell: Running processes independently of a PS Session on Remote Machines
PowerShell remoting is a great way of utilising commands and processing power of remote systems all from one console. It is also good at pulling information from remote systems and collating this together. There are plenty of examples of using PSSessions, and the Invoke-Command functions to manipulate remote machines, bring down remote modules to work
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PowerShell: Using AlphaFS to list files and folder longer than 260 characters and checking access
PowerShell is great. However, it has a couple of limitations – either by design or inheritance that are annoying to say the least. One commonly documented failing, which is inherited from the .NET framework is its inability to access files that have a total path length over 260 characters. Another limitation is the linear nature
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