Monthly Archives: August 2010

VMWare Workstation conversion to ESXi 4

Posted on Thu 26th August, 2010 by Lewis

…is not made easy by our friends at VMWare. Oh sure they’ll provide you with a tool called VMWare Converter Standalone which purports to convert your VMWare workstation guests in to fully fledged ESXi compatible versions but does it actually … Continue reading →

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Extract all mail enabled groups with PowerShell and ADSI

Posted on Mon 16th August, 2010 by Lewis

I’ve just finished off this first attempt at an actual useful PowerShell script. This should extract all Mail Enabled groups – that’s both security and distribution groups – and present them in a human readable format. Though I’ve played with … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2008 x64 IIS7 random errors and binary corruption with VNC 4

Posted on Mon 9th August, 2010 by Lewis

My usual process for deploying Windows Server boxes involves the installation of VNC for remote console management. I know Remote Desktop is the best practice way to do this but as they say, old habits die hard. When I recently … Continue reading →

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Scripting FTPES (Explicit TLS/SSL) with cURL

Posted on Fri 6th August, 2010 by Lewis

I thought I’d post quickly about automating FTP using explicit TLS/SSL with cURL. No, this isn’t a particularly advanced subject in the grand scheme of things (the command line is very simple) but some of the connectivity issues you might … Continue reading →

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Re-creating SQL Logins for standby databases

Posted on Thu 5th August, 2010 by Lewis

In preparation for an upcoming DR test I was aware of a limitation of using Standby/Read-only SQL databases that may be required to be brought online and immediately accessed by user accounts that didn’t exist on the DR database server. … Continue reading →

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