All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
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 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently when working with a very old, decrepit server that was running out of disk space I went to compress a folder of logs in NTFS and the compress box was greyed out and I was unable to compress it. This is because in NTFS the compression attribute isn’t supported for volumes with cluster […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesA while back I wrote a blog post about how to map your OneDrive as a local drive (network drive) and it has been hugely popular (contrary to anything I could have imagined) How to mount your OneDrive as a local mapped drive I’ve even seen it referred to in the Microsoft Community […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe all have performance issues at one time or another, and the majority of what I hear admins doing is the age old “Turn it off and back on again” or some variation thereof depending on the situation. This isn’t always the fix, so we move on to the logs — right? Well you should […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few days ago the phone rings, I get an ear-full about how some application isn’t working correctly and how it’s all the network’s fault and the repercussions of this outage will possibly cause so much damage that the world will start turning…the OTHER DIRECTION. Unfortunately for us IT Professionals, this is all too common […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis question has been posed to be multiple times before, “It says the file name is too long, why can’t I delete it?” or some variation of the same issue. There is a multitude of forum postings scrawled all over the internet and it’s endless wonder telling people to go download all these programs to […]
