All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
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: 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 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 […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’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: 2 minutes I 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 minute We all know SCCM can be your best friend, and your worst nightmare. Today I had to compile a list of client logs to check for a friend of mine, and thought I’d share. These should get you 95% of the way on your troubleshooting (from the client side anyways). Remember to always use CMTrace […]
