I have been doing some work to retrieve alerts from our SCOM environment using PowerShell. I had never worked with SCOM PowerShell before this point, so I went straight to the MS documentation to see what I could find. My intention was to pull all alerts for the Exchange 2013 Management Pack. The guide I
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Exchange: Checking the CAS and MBX servers used in an EWS Request
Recently I have been working on an issue where EWS requests sent to an Exchange environment were not working with the expected Exchange Version. The environment was in transition so was running both Exchange 2016 and 2010. All mailboxes involved in the request were hosted on 2016 and the CAS services had already been cut
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NetApp: Identify Snapshots Not Managed by Policy
The function below can be used to identify snapshots on a NetApp Cluster Mode system that do not have a corresponding snapshot schedule applied to the volume in question. It can be used to find odd snapshots that have been taken ad-hoc, and also to find snapshots that are left orphaned by changing the snapshot
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WSUS: Failed to run WSUS Server Cleanup. Error: The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint
I received the following error when running the ‘Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CleanupObsoleteComputers’ command on a WSUS instance. From searching through the database the problem appears to have been caused by a computer changing its Target Computer Group, but not being completely unassigned from the old computer group. Failed to run WSUS Server Cleanup. Error: The DELETE statement
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WhatsUp Gold PowerShell Monitor Best Practices
I have been using PowerShell monitors with WhatsUp Gold for nearly 3 years now. They offer a lot of flexibility and the ability to query a lot more systems that is available natively through SNMP, WMI or other built in monitor types. However, with all of this flexibility comes the ability to introduce many problems.
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WSUS Update Manager – Manage & View Updates for Computer Groups
One of the most annoying flaws in the WSUS MMC snap-in is how the filter for Approval status filters updates on whether they have any approvals rather than whether they are approved for a specific computer group. We found out that due to an automatic approval rule for a test group, a whole group of
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Citrix Provisioning Services PowerShell Wrapper
I have just published a new project that I have been working on over at CodePlex. This project was to create a wrapper for the MCliPsSnapin that is provided by Citrix for the automation and scripting of Provisioning Services. I got fed up of navigating the whole syntax of the snap in, which wasn’t true
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DHCP Option 119 – DNS Search Suffix – PowerShell Array Builder
Although Microsoft clients may not support DHCP Option 119, it is nonetheless a very important option for Linux and OSX clients. However, configuring such an option is not exactly the friendliest thing in the world. The RFC 3397 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3397) defines the standard. It requires that all options be presented as a byte array. One of
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Assigning permissions to a volume through the NetApp PowerShell Toolkit
As part of my work to automate as much as I can, both to reduce time and increase consistency, I was looking for a way to assign permissions to a newly created volume which was providing a CIFS share through our NetApp FAS unit. Normally I would use the Get/Set-Acl cmdlets that are provided through
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Using Add-Type in a PowerShell script that is run as a Scheduled Task
I like using objects in PowerShell, they make management and scripting easier as your are dealing with named sets of information and not having to find objects in numbered arrays or use dictionaries. That means however that a lot of my scripts start off with a block that looks a little like this: $UserDefinition =
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