In my day job, one of the things I do is maintenance of a farm of servers. All these boxes have local logging, which is picked up by Splunk. However, I still need to clean up those log files. Here is how I automated the process.
From time to time, file associations get broken. This could be the result of malware, “bit slippage”, uninstall of an associated program, or even some inadvertent change of settings. Here is how to fix a broken ZIP file association.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) can be a bit less than helpful when describing reasons for failed operations.
For IT folks, the mentioning the “P” word brings visions of long, drawn-out lists of things to be done, usually enforced by someone who barely knows how to power on their computer. There are even those of us who deny the project-management aspect of information technology. Don’t think of it as just a task list. Think of it… Read More »
During a recent cleanup effort in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager console, I found a powered off guest machine. The status showed the VM as having an “Unsupported Cluster Configuration State”.
If you need to check the status of a service across several machines, and don’t have monitoring in place, you can use PowerShell to get Running/Stopped/Starting status quickly.
I have CenturyLink DSL. Please take pity on me. Having CL as an ISP has been akin to being trapped in a cartoon, only it’s not funny. Here is my latest experience with them.
Use of cell phones has become pretty common these days. Not too long ago if a parent used to ask his child of around 12-13 years old, what he wants for his birthday, the reply would be along the lines of toys or something equally harmless, but now the reply you are most likely to get these days… Read More »
There is something of a mantra in the IT world: If it has to be repeated more than once, script it and automate it. The same goes for Q&A. If more than one person asks about it, write it down. So here you go.
In most technology environments, automation is everything. Part of that automation is the deployment of operating systems to servers and workstations via Windows Deployment Services, with help of PXE boot. Here’s how to PXE boot a guest in Hyper-V.