All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 4 minutes In an IaaS world, shared storage between virtual machines is a common ask. “What is the best way to configure shared storage?”, “What options do we have for sharing storage between these VMs?”, both are questions I’ve answered several times, so let’s go ahead and blog some of the options! The first part in this […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have an environment that heavily leverages DFS, and recently one of the replication member servers had to be restored from a VEEAM backup. Typically VEEAM is great and doesn’t cause any issues, in this case though DFS completely broke. I got a TON of SCOM alerts, and the event log was littered with them […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Everyone’s familiar by now with reasons why you want to use Server Core Edition for things like IIS, DNS, etc. In a recent project I found an interesting scenario where my GUI management server couldn’t connect remotely to the IIS instance that I was running on Server 2016 Core. There are a few oddities, so […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve seen this a few times now, sometimes with standalone WSUS but mostly with SCCM running a software update point. Every time SCCM does an update synchronization – the app pool crashes. If it runs again it will typically complete, but it’s still rather annoying especially if you have the SCOM management pack for IIS […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Symantec Endpoint Protection has quite a hold on the Anti-Virus market share. Many have environments where it’s used, and may not be the administrators or even able to view data from the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager. In light of that, I’ve written a PowerShell script to check the last update time for SEP definitions that […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’ve ever added hosts to an SCVMM instance you’ll know that there’s seeminly no easy way to move the newly imported VMs from those hosts into SCVMM clouds. I’ve found the best way to do this is by using the SCVMM command-line interface, which unfortunately has a few quirks. Set-SCVirtualMachine is the command you’ll […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute I recently spun up a new SCVMM environment, created my first VM, and attempted to create a template only to be faced with a job error. Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact the Host01 server: : . WinRM: URL: [http://Host01.lab.local:5985], Verb: [INVOKE], Method: [LoadSubkey], Resource: [http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/scvmm/P2VSourceFixup?RegFileName=C:\Users\SVC_VMM\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp6AB5.tmp] The configuration registry database is […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Recently I had to reinstall an SCCM 2012 R2 instance, and came across a strange error when I ran the Prerequisite Check. Dedicated SQL Server instance: Configuration Manager requires a dedicated SQL Server instance to host the site database. You selected the SQL Server instance that site hosts the Configuration Manager database for another site. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Some servers, for one reason or another, need to have services restarted periodically. This script does just that, and has the ability to grab multiple service names using a wildcard populated array. After it’s complete, it sends an email from the script letting you know it’s complete. It’s commented out, but also has the ability […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome all, to the age of the gui-less windows server. As more and more people spin up labs with command-line only boxes, this command can be helpful. Remember to only turn off your firewall in lab environments where you know you’re not exposing yourself to additional risk. Set-NetFirewallProfile -Profile Domain,Public,Private -Enabled False To do […]
