As part of a Windows 2003 upgrade, one of the checks you need to do is for accounts that have been forced to use DES encryption Why? Because Windows 2008 and higher has DES disabled by default, so these accounts will not work. Here is a Powershell script that runs through your AD and finds […]
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Monthly Archives: July 2014
DHCP 2012 r2 static reservations replication not working
So, we updated our DHCP Servers to 2012 R2. We setup DHCP Failover, which was easy to setup and seems very nice. But, we don’t see our static reservations migrating. Did I miss that leases are not part of the cluster, or is there a setting somewhere to have the reservations automatically replicated on the failover server?
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VMWare Snapshot Basics
The advent in virtualisation and snapshots resulted in a exponential increase in lazy admins! You really need to think before you snapshot! A couple of good basic video tutorials on Snapshots 002 VMware Snapshot Basics 003 Snapshot Dangers Takeaways from them Snapshot is not a backup!
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SCCM 2007 – Cannot image devices newly added using PXE boot
I spend 3 months as a Problem Analyst. Basically the organization had a lot of problems (as defined by ITIL) and one of their annoying issues for Deskside Support / Administrators was imaging PCs /Servers, basically they would not start image reliably… Problem: You add a new device into SCCM via the Computer Association (say – […]
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Listing and Comparing Microsoft Patches in a PC
There are always times when you need to be able to compare the MS hotfixes on one machine to another machine, examples being: Computer has no internet access Hotfixes or patches have been applied that are not available on Windows Update Obtain the two lists
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The update is not applicable to your computer – KB2896496 KB2919355
Problem: “The update is not applicable to your computer” I have come across this a number of times, primarily when applying Windows Updates manually. Solution: Use windows updates and don’t manually installl patches, it knows what to do. If you really wan to do this manually, or windows updates is not working properly, find a […]
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Free PowerShell Modules
A big thumbs up to Arron Jensen at http://get-carbon.org I have been doing some PowerShell scripting and needed to test that a windows feature existed. Thanks to my google foo and Arron’s logical naming of his modules, within minutes I had what I needed to build the first iteration of my script. My script’s goal […]
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Setting up Backup Exec 2010 R3 to use SAN Transport Mode for backups using AVVI in Windows 2008 R2
Well if you have got to this page you probably already have backups running to disk (and duplicate to tape) via the VCenter using AVVI and your looking to turbo charge your backups. Well here are the simple truths. You muck this part up and the windows host initialises the LUN that your datastore is […]
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