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 Server Resource Manager (FSRM) provides a variety of useful variables that can be plugged into an automated email. However, we have found that it’s often very useful to [...]
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 function to combing the elements of a list with a given separator, like Perl’s join() function. I finally got annoyed enought to write one. It seems to do what I want, so [...]
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 Domain Services logs a warning event on startup, and summary events every 24 hours. A couple weeks ago, I followed the recommendation to enable logging of unsigned and plaintext LDAP [...]
Since we don’t use DHCP in our server subnets, I frequently have to locate free IP addresses when deploying a server. I remembered reading a TechNet Magazine article by Don Jones that used the PowerShell PROCESS block and the Win32_PingStatus WMI class in a sample script. I took that and rewrote the function a little: [...]
Today’s issues: Backup issues Shared folder quotas Printer configurations Data execution protection I created a Server 2008 x64 guest for managing 64-bit drivers on our shared printers. It works much better than trying to use Printer Management MMC in RSAT on Windows 7. One hiccup I ran into while install the Ricoh PCL6 Driver for [...]
Thirteen is a lucky number! Found the UVM Webteam’s official style guide. Nice level of detail. Installed WinSCP to help a user, then a Windows 7 update. My system rebooted and was unresponsive. After trying several different things, I ended up booting into safe mode and removing WinSCP. Whatever! Get together with Greg to review [...]
Service restarts on some hosts. Looked into automating some periodic restarts. One app vendor suggests using SQL Agent. I don’t really like the idea of using SQL Agent for non-database tasks. Found an interesting exercise in CMD batch file writing in a Microsoft script to restart IIS services. Powershell is another possibility. Problems with SharePoint [...]
Geoffrey Duke
Sr. System Administrator,
University of Vermont