I’ve added a script section to my site. This is where I will maintain links to pages for each script. I decided this was necessary after starting to add comment-based help to some of my more popular scripts. Adding a page dedicated to each script with all the help and script details will simplify...
Read more →I am now a VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5. I received my confirmation last week. Just waiting to get access to the Logos so I can add them to the home page of my site 🙂
Read more →With the release of Windows 8 Microsoft has updated their debugging tools. The debugging process is the same, but getting the tools is a bit different…
Read more →Installed VSM 3.5 for the first time today. It took a bunch of retries to get it to work… Basic steps: Download the OVF from support.equallogic.com – requires login Download Installation guide Read Installation guide Create a service account user for VSM, make sure it is a local administrator on vCenter server, double-check that...
Read more →When I first tried to setup Sophos UTMs for HA (then Astaro ASGs) I had some difficulty figuring out the proper order and steps required. To simplify the process for others here are the steps, it is really quite easy… If you are setting up new units from scratch Complete the license registration...
Read more →We have assembled some best practices at work for implementing the Sophos UTM (formerly Astaro ASG). These have been gathered and tested by my team and work for our environments. Feel free to ask questions. The online help is also very good. Management System Settings Shell Access Set SSH to a non-standard port WebAdmin...
Read more →My PowerShell window takes a while to load, it’s been slightly annoying for quite a while, but not so annoying I had to do something about it. Until tonight. I finally decided to log how long my profile takes to load and see if I can pin point the cause. It turns out my...
Read more →A colleague and I wrote this script to allow a client to snapshot all VMs every night and delete the snapshots from the day before. This way the client always has fresh snapshots they could roll back to, without having to worry about old snapshots being kept around (and all the headaches those can...
Read more →Some Office 365 mailbox management tasks can only be done through PowerShell, so here are a couple easy thing to simplify managing Office 365. Add the MSOnline Module to your Profile. You can’t access the Office 365 cmdlets if you don’t have the module installed and loaded. You can grab it here – 32bit/64bit...
Read more →Update: I’ve updated the script a bit and added it to my script repository. Please check there for further updates to this script. As part of setting up Connectwise for my Office I needed to modify the permissions on our Office 365 mailboxes so Connectwise was able to send email on behalf of...
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