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Managing an iLO from the OnBoard Administrator of an HP C-Class Enclosure
I have been performing some work on an HP BladeSystem C7000 Enclosure this morning. We have issues where the iLOs either have incorrect IP addresses or become unresponsive- issues caused by a bug in...
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PowerShell Script to Download SysInternals Suite Files
Below is a very simple PowerShell script to copy any new or newer versions of the SysInternals tools: Set-Locationc:\temp\Sysinternals $SysInternals=Get-ChildItem...
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Team Foundation Services and PowerGUI – Using PowerShell with Version Control
Version control allows you and others to work on the same scripts, check them in and out, etc. By following these steps, it is possible to use version control system for PowerShell as well as a number...
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PowerShell: Get Current User’s Security Permissions
I was writing a little script and thought that needs to ensure it has sufficient privileges. I thought it would be more useful to find if the current user is part of any of the built in user roles....
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Excel Split Rows Where Columns Different
I caught a colleague of mine working through a CSV document in Excel, he was putting blank rows in to separate data by a column, to make it easy for him to analyse the text, he was trying to achieve...
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Useful Tools–Troubleshooting on a Microsoft Platform
I spend a great deal of time troubleshooting Windows Servers. I try and use free or open source tools wherever possible. Here are my favourite/most frequently used. I tend to have copies of most of...
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Building a DD-WRT Image In vSphere 5.0
Introduction I have a need to put a router between my test ESXi 5.0 server and my network. At home, I use a Linksys E3000 (both 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz Wireless-N, gigabit) router, with OpenSource DD-WRT...
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Configuring Windows 2008 R2 Core on VMware ESXi
Pre-Requisites ESX(i) 4.1 or higher (as we will use the PVSCSI controller as the boot device. I use ESX 5.0 in this example. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 iso image on a datastore. The Core...
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Find All Old Files The PowerShell Way
Last week, a colleague asked for help to find files older than a certain date. For this, it appears that Symantec NetBackup has a bug where if it is performing a backup with files that are created with...
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