VSS diagnostics
For the past eight month, I’ve been working with EMC and Microsoft to diagnose a problem. Several time a month, during the backup of our primary Windows 2008 ...
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Listing parent of AD object in PowerShell
Recently, I wanted to provide a client with a list of groups that related to some work he was doing. I wanted the group names as well as their location with AD....
HoW PGP Whole Disk Encryption Works
In my discussion and demo at the IT-Discuss Live – Security event in May, I used a short slide deck to describe—in broad terms—how PGP Whole Disk Encrypti...
Custom event log queries
I really like the newer event log model on Windows 2008 family, and the flexibility of the XML events and the queries that makes possible. Recently, I started n...
Use it up – Brother HL-3070CW Toner
Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without. There are some things that we can’t really do without. But good old Yankee thrift pains me every time I hav...
Script: Shadow Copy Report
We use EMC NetWorker for our enterprise backup solution. Since we migrated our primary file server from a NetApp filer to a native Windows server, we’ve been ...
Webmail on a Netbook
Amid the praise for and complaints about the newer version of webmail, we received a plea from a netbook user. She pointed out that the new layout made it very ...
Custom FSRM notification script
I’ve been working on a script to generate an informative message to users when they exceed quota thresholds on our file server. The features of the File S...
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...