Semisynchronous WMI
Experimenting with querying WMI from Perl with Win32::OLE, I ran across the following WMI query options in an Perl example from Microsoft’s Script Center: Aft...
Author: Geoff
Sr. System Administrator at the University of Vermont
I should have known better
I spent a some time configuring the Eventlog-to-Syslog service on my domain controllers, yesterday. A bunch of that time was spent trying to figure out why the ...
Prototyping Windows File Services
After seven years of providing robust file service hosted on a NetApp filer, we’ve decided to migrate our services to native Windows File Services. We have en...
How to catch a phish
I’ve received several phishing attempts, recently, this time masquerading as mail from Twitter. I thought I’d share how I recognized this as an attack. Many...
What’s my IP Address?
It’s one of the first questions that we ask clients when we’re helping diagnose a problem with a network resource. There are several different ways to deter...
Edit a meeting you can’t see
The situation: I’m working in Oracle Calendar as a person’s designate, managing his calendar on his behalf. We’ll call him Sam. I create a meeting for Sam...
Microsoft Office Troubleshooting
Recently, I was asked to talk with our Help Line staff about strategies for troubleshooting problems with Microsoft Office. I spent some time addressing the act...
Troubleshooting Microsoft Office Activation
Microsoft Office volume license editions have used the Volume License 2.0 mechanism to manage activation since Office 2010. Microsoft Office will activate again...
Powershell Join-String function
Update: better yet, read about the -Join and -Split PowerShell operators. Live and learn. —Geoff Something I’ve found myself missing in PowerShell is a fu...
Event data mining with PowerShell
On Server 2008 and 2008 R2, if your Domain Controllers aren’t configured to require LDAP signing and disallow simple LDAP binds in plaintext, Active Directory...