Monthly Archives: January 2011
Active Directory Health Check-Part 3
More on the AD Health Check / DC State information script Enjoy, Dave Kawula ***************Begin Script***************************** @echo off REM HEALTH_CHK.CMD – Retrieves some state info from the specified DC. SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS set toollist=regdmp repadmin ntfrsutl eventdmp if NOT “%1″ == … Continue reading
Transfer FSMO Roles Script
Here is another one that I have used for years. Special thanks to my Brother in-law Allan for writing this one up. PS. If you ever want something scripted he is one of the best guys that I know out … Continue reading
Active Directory Health-Check Part 2
Here are some more scripts that I was able to dig out. This one will dump the c:\windows\debug folder from your DC’s I use the information from the Debug folder to determine many things. Such as client site misalignment (Missing … Continue reading
Active Directory Health Check – Part 1
Came Across this in my archives this week. Thought some of you might find this handy. Save this file as ADhealthcheck.cmd 2nd Script is another iteration with the /fix switch on the commands. Enjoy – Dave Kawula ******************Script Begins Here********************** … Continue reading
Whiptail SSD SAN on Demo @ my customers
Well after almost one year of waiting I have been able to get my hands on the Whiptail SSD SAN Appliance. We will be piloting this appliance for our Exchange and XenDesktop Deployments in the coming weeks. Stay tuned … Continue reading
OCS Dual Farm Configuration Script
I had an engagement recently that presented a rather unique problem. The client had hard coded their OCS Farm settings via Group Policy. So we had to write a custom GPO that unlocked the settings and allowed us to make … Continue reading
Hyper-V R2 Cluster VM Load Balancing Script
I have done quite a few Hyper-V 2008 R2 HA Builds in the past year. This script came about from a requirement that one of my clients had. They needed to be able to balance the workloads between 2 x … Continue reading
Active Directory Backup and Restore Guide
I hope you enjoy – I wrote this up a while back and felt it would a cool post to share. I have found a lot of customers struggling with the new concepts of backing up and restoring Active Directory … Continue reading
Build your LAB at home – the fast way!
Ever wanted to stand up some new technology and spent more time downloading software than actually trying it out. Well here is the answer — Pre-Configured sets of VHD’s from Microsoft. These are really a great way to get you … Continue reading
OCS 2007 R2 Demo VHD
This is a truely amazing collection of pre-configured VHD’s from Microsoft. It will work for up to 60 Days and will give you a chance to see what OCS is all about. I cannot wait until the update LYNC version … Continue reading