VMWare Workstation conversion to ESXi 4
…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...
Monthly Archive: August 2010
Extract all mail enabled groups with PowerShell and ADSI
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...
Windows Server 2008 x64 IIS7 random errors and binary corruption with VNC 4
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...
Scripting FTPES (Explicit TLS/SSL) with cURL
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...
Re-creating SQL Logins for standby databases
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...
