We got some new disk shelves in to replace some old ones on our NetApp filer. The old disks had a lot of SnapMirror destination volumes.All these needed migrating to the new disks. Initially we were planning on creating a new set of SnapMirrors from the source volumes to the destinations, and once these were
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Assigning Permissions to Assign Networks to VM in vSphere
If you need to allow a specific user or group the permission to change the connected network on a virtual machine in vSphere, then permissions have to be given in a couple of places. This provides very granular control about the machines and the networks that a person can use, however may not be totally
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IISCrypto – Making SSL/TLS Configuration Easier
Following the recent Poodle vulnerability, and the general best practice that you should always use the most secure protocols available, I have been spending some time reconfiguring servers. Setting the order of ciphers, and enabling Forward Secrecy in Windows requires editing the registry – a lot. This is susceptible to errors, as the process is
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Automating pfSense Backups
Just found a fantastic tool which is so simple and just works. https://knowledge.zomers.eu/pfsense/Pages/How-to-automate-pfSense-backup.aspx Downloaded, tested, in place and working within 15 minutes. Perfect! Be the first to like. Mark this post as useful. Unmark this post as useful.
SQL Server Reporting Services – Rebuild Performance Counters
Got a lot (20+) of this sort of error in my event log. There is a guide on the Microsoft Wiki abou this here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1916.how-to-rebuild-the-report-server-performance-counters-ssrs.aspx, however, this alone is not enough to fix the issue. The commands that I ran in order to get mine back up and running, from an elevated command prompt were:
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SharePoint 2013: Renaming the Database Server
There are a number of posts on this online, but none of them exactly described the steps that I needed to take in order to rename the server that was hosting the SQL databases for our SharePoint installation. I was in the fortunate position that the system had not yet gone live, so rebooting and
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Modifying GPO Printer Deployment using PowerShell
We use the Deployed Printers feature in the Print Management console to deploy printers to users. As part of the printer migration that I have been working on, I needed to modify all of these GPOs so that all of the policies directed all of the users to the new print server. There are over
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Windows 2012: PrintService EventID 812 Error 0x5
Been working on a print server migration, and with the cutover we started noticing a lot of these errors in the PrintService Operational Log. This log has to be enabled before you will get these errors if you have not done so already. As part of the setup of this print server, a dedicated disk
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Clean Up Unused Printer Drivers
Working on a printer migration project, and one of the first steps was to clean up the existing print servers so that when running the migration. I wanted a way to contact remote print servers too. This script, once imported allows cleanup of remote print servers. Requires Powershell 4, so run off a Windows 8/Windows
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WhatsUp Gold Raspberry Pi Monitor
I have worked out a way to get a full screen display of a specific dashboard for use with a digital signage display using a Raspberry Pi, using only a web browser. The Dashboard client was ok, but required a Windows machine, and although we could use the existing web page with automatic login (http://community.whatsupgold.com/forums/whatsupgoldeditionsstandardandpremiumeditions/automatic-login-by-url)
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