Month: March 2011
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My PowerShell PowerCLI VMware guest provisioning script
This script will provision a 4GB Ram, 40 GB HD Server 2008 R2 VM, set the CD to an OSD iso, set the BootDelay to 5 seconds, and start the machine
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OS X: Move files based on creation date
I wanted to organize my flip videos – I wanted them moved into a folder named after their creation date. One of the scripts that I found uses ls’s “–time-style” parameter. BSD’s ls does not have this value. MacPorts’ coreutils port contains gls (GNU’s ls) that does support the parameter. So here is my script…
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New to my PowerShell Profile: VMware PowerCLI
This will add the PowerShell CLI tools if they exist. Thanks to this thread
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RSAT on Slipstreamed SP1 Install – #FAIL
Driving me nuts that I can’t install RSAT on a machine with SP1 already installed!!!!!!!!
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Mailbox moves and error no. c1034ad6
We have been moving mailboxes to a new Equallogic iSCSI SAN volume. The old information store is almost empty, except for one mailbox that did not get removed at the end of the move. It was sitting there with a red “X”. When we tried to delete it we received the error: The Operation cannot…
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OS X Finder Service to convert Grab.app TIFF files to JPG
It drives me nuts that Grab.app defaults to .tif as the file type. And no matter how many times I try the recommended : defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg I can not get it to default to save as a jpg (and I tried jpeg). All I can guess is that this command does not…
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Reporting Services report from related data in SQL and a SharePointList via SSIS
This is an older project that I wanted to talk about. I worked on this last June. It was a longer post, so i procrastinated. I wanted to create a “mash up” of data from a SharePoint List and a set of SQL tables. I tried several things, somehting that should be easy, was not…
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Verify if a Recipient Policy is being applied to a user
We use the excellent Dell EMS Email Continuity product. It is fantastic. All our mail is replicated (via an SMTP sink and vaultbox) to their data center. In the event of and outage, our mail will route to their system, and they provide a way for the mail to be delivered to the user. One of the benefits, is that…
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My adventures in Exchange Log Replaying.
I wanted to restore our exchange environment in an off line VM. One of my goals was to take an information store and mount it – just to prove that I can access the data. At our off site business continuity location, we have a Double-Take replica of our production Exchange 2003 server, including replicas of all our information…
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Exchange 2010 SP1 and New-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup
I was progressing along on with my offline Exchange install, and I ran into a problem when creating my Database Availability Group (DAG). I wanted to put the witness directory on a non exchange server and the instructions say: If the witness server you specify isn’t an Exchange 2010 server, you must add the Exchange Trusted Subsystem universal security group to the local Administrators group…