Adding VMware Tools to WinPE 4.0
I’m trying to augment the Bare Metal Recovery boot image provided by EMC as part of the NetWorker Client to support recovery in our VMware vSphere environ...
Author: Geoff
Sr. System Administrator at the University of Vermont
PowerShell one-liner – renaming files
Camera named files like this: P1050640.JPG. To rename the all files in the directory, I used the following:
Renewing Tomcat SSL certificates
Following Greg’s advice, as well as the Tomcat docs here are the steps I’ve performed to update the SSL certificates used by two Tomcat instances: ...
Scripting printer permissions
I will probably need to refer to this myself, but maybe someone else will find this useful. Still working through some print queue management tasks, I needed to...
Printer management with PowerShell
I find the printer management scripts included with Server 2008 bothersome. However, until we get to Server 2012, with its shiny new printer management cmdlets,...
Printer drivers and architectures with PowerShell
We have a number of 32-bit Windows 2008 print servers that we want to migrate to Windows Server 2012, for the printer management PowerShell cmdlets, among other...
Disable SSLv2 on IIS
Microsoft KB 187498Â describes the registry values that can be used to disable various security protocols. Disabling SSLv2 is as easy as This does require a reb...
Which Disk is that volume on?
I administer a server VM with a lot of disks, and many of them are the same size. When I need to make changes to the system’s storage, I’m always ne...
GUID Chase – Group Policy troubleshooting
It started with an alert from System Center Operations Manager about a failed scheduled task. Of course, the alert references a task name that looks like a SID....
String arrays and mandatory parameters
I have been working on a function to convert the output of NET SHARE <sharename> commands into usable PowerShell objects. In the course of my work, I was ...