tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80603374826370710492012-01-30T23:10:10.804+10:00Microsoft Infrastructure SpecialistWayne Hoggetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357074935928764761noreply@blogger.comBlogger303125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060337482637071049.post-78215396718093485092012-01-13T20:42:00.001+10:002012-01-13T20:42:39.854+10:002012-01-13T20:42:39.854+10:00

I’ve built myself a new high-spec PC. The components list is: Motherboard : GA-Z68XP-UD4 CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32GB Video Card: ASUS ENGTX570 SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 Case: Cooler Master CM690 II Now here are the build photos, at the bottom you will find the Windows Experience Index for comparison sake. Boxes: Case: Power Supply Install:   Motherboard Install: CPU

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$I will show you how to have a little bit of fun with your PowerShell Version 3 Profile. For those that don’t know, the PowerShell profile is loaded when the PowerShell console is started. Find the location of your profile by getting the contents of the profile variable: Open notepad and save a .ps1 file in that location. You can change the colour of the background and text colour using the

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Set the URL you intend to access: $url = "http://sharepoint/_vti_bin/listdata.svc" Now the URL used above may be at the root level or it may be at a site level, e.g. $url = "http://sharepoint/_vti_bin/sites/it/listdata.svc" If you want to access a specific list, you can use: $url = "http://sharepoint/_vti_bin/sites/it/listdata.svc/ServiceRequests" If you want to filter or order the data, you can

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Updated for CTP2! Show us the numbers! Module PowerShell Version 2 PowerShell Version 3 Microsoft.PowerShell.Core 41 55 Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics 4 5 Microsoft.PowerShell.Host 2 2 Microsoft.PowerShell.Management 79 82 Microsoft.PowerShell.Security 10 10 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility 87 92 Please Note: Some cmdlets have been removed and some have been added. Ok

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I’m currently preparing for my Exchange Server 2010 certification exams. I decided this time around I would sit the MCITP exam before the MCTS exam. Now, sitting the exams in this order is not at all recommended by Microsoft, but I wanted to learn how to design an Exchange 2010 infrastructure before I start to learn how to configure it. It seemed like a good idea at the time… But Microsoft

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Make sure you have the Hyper-V BPA hotfixes installed: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977238 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2485986 (If using SP1, especially when using Dynamic Memory) You can use Windows Update or Windows PowerShell (shown below as it should appear) to check if you have the updates installed. Once installed, the Hyper-V BPA will appear in Server Manager as shown below. Click

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Start by firing up Windows PowerShell and importing the failover clusters module. To get a list of commands available for the failover clusters module (or any other module), use the get-command cmdlet with the module parameter, as shown below: You can get help on any particular command using the get-help cmdlet and specifying the name of the cmdlet, as shown below: You can add the –detailed or

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If you are running Hyper-V, one of the most important considerations is networking. Making the wrong design choices when configuring networking can cost you dearly down the track, so here are some guidelines for networking Hyper-V. Standalone Hyper-V If you are using Hyper-V in a standalone deployment (i.e. No clustering), you should have two network cards per host: 1 network card for Hyper-V

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To use Windows PowerShell to manage your failover cluster, you will first need to install the Failover Clustering feature using Server Manager, or the Failover Clustering Tools via the RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools). Installing the Failover Clustering Tools I didn’t know what the module for Failover Clustering was called, so I ran the “get-module –listavailable” cmdlet to find out what

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sp_add_alert can be used to write data to a file or carete an alert.

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Here is a quick PowerShell Function that can be used to display read output via the speaker. 1: function Out-Speaker ([Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true,ValuefromPipelinebyPropertyName=$true)][string]$Output) { 2: $Speaker = New-Object -comObject SAPI.SpVoice 3: $Speaker.Speak($output) | Out-Null 4: } 5: # Example - Uncomment and run to hear the example 6

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Microsoft has released it’s iSCSI Software Target as a free download. Now anyone can make use of the software to test and even deploy shared storage scenarios like Clustering and Hyper-V Live Migration. Grab the installer here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=45105d7f-8c6c-4666-a305-c8189062a0d0

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PSLoggedOn is a tool I downloaded to allow me to find out which computers a user is currently logged on to. Getting it up and running wasn’t exactly easy. I’m running a Windows Server 2008 R2 test environment. The first error I encountered was: Error browing network: The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available. Note: I kept the spelling mistake from the error message to

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This PowerShell Script provides a simple user interface to get the username of the logged user on a specific system. There is also the option to use alternate credentials (for perimeter networks, workgroups, etc). Get Logged On User

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Windows Server 2008 R2 comes with Windows PowerShell installed by default, but the ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) is not). It’s all in the name of building a more secure and less-bloated server OS. Windows 7 on the other hand has the ISE installed by default. To install the ISE you can use Server Manager or you can use PowerShell as shown below: Please note: Only the red circled command

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The following diagram represents the relationships between the IT Service Provider, Customers, Suppliers and Internal Departments. The diagram also displays the supporting documents and contracts.

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  The following diagram is a representation of the steps required to implement and manage IT Service Continuity Management as part of an implementation of the ITIL framework.

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Visit http://pshyperv.codeplex.com 2. Navigate to the downloads page 3. Click the download button and download the file 4. Remove the zone information from the file 5. Run the install batch file as an Administrator accepting all defaults 6. Close the automatically opened PowerShell window (it’s ready to go, but I want to customise it a little more) 7. Copy the HyperV_Install folder to the

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Starting point, laptop flipped over and SSD unpacked Undo the two screws on the outer side of the HDD bay. Pull the cover up from the outer side using the using the provided recess Using the two black tabs on the hard drive caddy, pull the hard drive outer side to unplug it from the SATA and power connections, then pull the hard drive out. Remove the hard drive caddy from the bottom of the

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According to the Hyper-V team, the ideal logical to physical processor ratio is between 4 and 8. Many Hyper-V servers run well below this level. Use the following PowerShell script to determine the logical to physical ratio on your Hyper-V server/s: try { $Virtual_Processors = (Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization MSVM_Processor -ErrorAction Stop).Count $Logical_Processors = (

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If you are tasked with selecting an appropriate Anti-Virus or Malware protection software suite, you might find it difficult to find relevant, non-biased resources on the Internet. While I cannot guarantee that any of the following resources aren’t biased, you should be able to come to some sort of decision, with the right information and some of your own testing. After all, there are a lot of

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