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HPE ProLiant Gen10 Server Health Summary / UID Feature
On the HPE ProLiant Gen 10 models with iLO 5, you have a new feature that gives you a health summary when you’re looking at the KVM of a rackmount (side note: I haven’t checked a blade yet w/ the … Continue reading
Quick Tip: PowerShell for Testlab DNS Entries
A quick post to cover building up the test lab DNS. Eventually these notes will appear in my test lab build series, but until then, this will give you the gist on how to automate this. The following code snippets … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Deployment, Powershell, Scripting, Test Lab
Tagged Active Directory, DNS, Powershell, Test Lab
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File Server Resource Manager Quota Adjustment – Quick and Dirty
DR tests are fun. Manually flipping file servers w/ Robocopy as the synchronization mechanism is not. Hurry up, Server 2016, you’re my only hope. We ended up having to make some quota adjustments on the fly to handle data changes … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster Recovery, File Services, Powershell, Scripting, Uncategorized
Tagged FSRM, Powershell, Quotas
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Test Lab Build Series – 1 – Planning
The first part of any environment build, be it a test lab, a development platform, or even a production environment, is planning. Arguably the 2nd most important task in any project is this step, because it is going to guide … Continue reading
Posted in Deployment, Installation, Management, Powershell, Scripting, Test Lab
Tagged Planning, Test Lab
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Test Lab Buildup Series – Introduction
I am in the process of revamping my entire test lab build process, and given that I know of a number of admins that still do things entirely by hand, I thought I would share the process involved since for … Continue reading
Posted in Deployment, Scripting, Test Lab
Tagged Deployment, Manageability, Powershell, Scripting, Test Lab
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Exchange 2013 Hybrid Configuration Wizard Fails to Connect When Updating
Recently I ran into a problem preparing for the April 15th TLS Cert Update from Microsoft. We would get to a point in the Hybrid Configuration Wizard and it would fail to connect in a spectacular fashion: You can see … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange 2013, O365, Powershell
Tagged Certificates, Exchange 2013, Hybrid Configuration Wizard, O365, Troubleshooting
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Exchange 2013 Powershell Script: Check CAS Health v2
Back when we were first putting in Exchange 2013 I wanted a way to check the Client Access Server roles as we were deploying servers to make sure that they were coming up okay. Thankfully, the Exchange 2013 team was smart … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange 2013, Monitoring, Powershell
Tagged Exchange 2013, Monitoring, Powershell
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Exchange 2013 Powershell Script: Get DAG-wide Mailbox Statistics
While preparing for our On-prem -> O365 migration of a subset of our users, we ran across the need to gather mailbox statistics so that we could create the migration batches based on metrics. It’s pretty simple for us to … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange 2013, Management, Powershell
Tagged Exchange 2013, Planning, Powershell, Sizing
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DPM 2012 R2 Search Recovery Point Action Failing to Produce Results
Recently I’ve had to switch from Backup Exec 2014 to Microsofts System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 to handle our Exchange 2013 CU5 backups due the Backup Exec 2014 not supporting the Exchange 2013 SP1 + Server 2012 R2 … Continue reading
Finicky Server Administrator Musings 