Using a NetScaler within home lab is beneficial, mostly because you can use the same IP over and over for different services. Imagine providing VPN, Lync Autodiscover, Exchange Autodiscover, and SharePoint all over port 443. That's what a NetScaler VPX can do for you, for free.
Below is a tutorial that will help you …
Read MoreTonight, I published Invoke-Locate.ps1 to ScriptCenter because I was tired of mounting my Windows drive to my Linux servers to quickly and reliably find files. Originally, it was going to be a small script, but then I decided to trick it out, add an installer and automatic Task Scheduling to run updatedb.
The installer …
Read MoreI'm currently working on a PowerShell/SQL set of scripts to ease SQL Server Migrations. A few of the scripts have been posted to Microsoft's ScriptCenter. Recently, one of the ScriptCenter visitors asked:
Can this script be used to backup all server configuration and restore at a later date. The use case I have is that …
Read MoreAbout 8 years ago, I wrote a blog post that provided a VBScript to create easy-to-read shortcuts to IIS Log directories. W3SVC56 just wasn't helpful enough to identify which website logs to which directory.
Today, I ported that same script to PowerShell. I'm too lazy to explain, so this is what it does: …
Read More- Oops! I forgot to tell my mom to resize her photos before uploading them to RealCajunRecipes.com. We had colossal 7MB+ images floating around on the web server, and SSD space doesn't come cheap. No problem, I just installed ImageMagick, backed up my directories, then ran the following command which finds all the 1MB+ …
Read More - A buddy of mine was running into issues importing a 1 GB CSV of Longitudes and Latitudes available from geonames.org. The CSV contains over 9 million rows, and no matter what he did, DTS/SSIS would not import the data because of conversion issues. That's actually been happening to me a lot lately, too, so I find myself …
Read More I'm not super familiar with ThinApping, but converted portions of this VMware login script at the request of a consultant.
I tried to automate the script a bit more than the one from VMware's blog. Their script required that you put in the path to each EXE. This script will find all exes within a directory and register …
Read MoreI always forget where to look when searching for various CSV formats to help with my scripting QA. Recently, I stumbled upon data.gov again and it's like, the best govrnment website I've ever seen.
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Read More- I had the hardest time finding this information. I'm currently making a whole bunch of Animated Gifs to demonstrate the functionality of some of my SQL Server/PowerShell scripts (using a combination of Camtasia and iMovie. I'm trying to keep the size of the file (and thus the video dimensions) small but the version of …
Read More After a December 2013 patching downtime, I noticed an abrupt decrease of almost 50% in the performance of 2 SQL Servers. Both servers were running on HP DL580 G7s. After many hours of testing and data collection, we finally updated the BIOS firmware from 7/01/2013 to 10/31/2013.
The issue immediately resolved itself. …
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