All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m the kind of guy that ALWAYS has task manager open. I’m serious, ask anyone I work with — I sometimes even have a whole screen for Task Manager and Resource Monitor (Maybe that’s why I like SCOM so much?). Though, I’ve noticed a couple of times on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Server 2012, Server […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn all of our environments we all know EXACTLY what’s going on, where it’s going on, and where everything is right? Chances are that’s not true, and like most of us, especially in large home-grown development environments there are servers sitting under peoples desks, in some random closets, etc. Here’s an easy way to find […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week I had an issue where I needed to rebuild the WSUS server leveraged by my SCCM 2012 Software Update Point. After uninstalling/reinstalling WSUS from server roles, I downloaded and installed SP2 for WSUS 3.0 since that’s the requirement for SCCM 2012. At this point the normal train of thought would be “I met […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently ran into this issue when doing an all-in-one VDI install, on top of a server that had been used for other things in the past. The “quick start” VDI option is supposed to essentially do everything for you, but I ran into this issue. “The Server does not have a network adapter available […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis one is going to be short and sweet, I’ve been testing SMTP with and without encryption and wanted a good script for that. Here are the lines that you’ll want to look at configuring: Line 5: “$smtpServer =”InsertYourSmtpServerHere” Line 12: Change the $false value to $true if you want to encrypt your SMTP with […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomething that I’ve noticed not a lot people know, is how to get your disk performance to show up on a server’s task manager. Yes, yes, I know. With the new Microsoft model you shouldn’t be RDP’ing to servers anyways — but I still get asked how to do this. For some reason they have […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I went to upgrade an evaluation version of System Center Configuration Manager 2012 to a full version, I noticed unlike Operations Manager — you have to do this through the setup/install interface. Upon first search people were saying just run the setup again and choose “Perform site maintenance or reset the site”, though it […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI know, I know — we shouldn’t use this on servers. Sometimes though, in the right environment and for the right reasons, it can be useful (and you don’t have to install something like ccleaner). This process is honestly, really easy — the files are already on your system, they just need to be […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesI did a few new SCOM 2012 installs recently and noticed that after pushing the agent to the DCs, they showed up grayed out in Ops Manager. Here’s a quick tip on how to fix that. Logon to the DC(s), and with an administrative comand prompt run the HSLockdown tool, and add the local system […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a lot of environments that have developers that use a lot of config files, sometimes it would be nice to keep older versions of those files. Fortunately Microsoft has graced us with shadow copies so we can have “Previous Versions”. The only issue with that, is you can only can’t turn on shadow copies […]
