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sysadmin-tips-and-tricks: May 2013

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My personal Tech Notes. Tuesday, 7 May 2013. Solaris - ludelete and zones. An update on patching zones (which is why the information came to light). I have noticed that when you create a BE on a server running local zones and then patch it an additional zone directory is created. But when I delete the old BE the old zone directory didn't go with it. If it creates the folder when I lucreate why doesn't it delete when I use ludelete? Maybe it was just naive of me to expect it to be removed. FYI - Oracle sa...

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sysadmin-tips-and-tricks: SQL - Unable to open SSMS

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My personal Tech Notes. Tuesday, 12 August 2014. SQL - Unable to open SSMS. We had a call in for a third party to access a SQL server - the people who set the server up had not long left the Company and didn't leave any passwords for us. Logging onto the server was fine. Opening up SSMS was the problem. No Permissions. One of my colleagues found this useful nugget of information for SQL 2008 and above (I don't know how far above - the article said 2008 and above and the edition we have is SQL 2008 R2).

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sysadmin-tips-and-tricks: April 2014

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My personal Tech Notes. Thursday, 24 April 2014. Batch file - removing files older than x. I needed to remove IIS logs older than a number of days due to the C drive filling up - I found some information on the net with regards forfiles (instead of using Powershell which was my first port of call but due to the server running Windows 2003). The script removes files older than 3 days and outputs the errors to a log file (or should - nothing in my log file at present but I've had no errors to date! Http:/ ...

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sysadmin-tips-and-tricks: December 2013

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My personal Tech Notes. Friday, 27 December 2013. Microsoft - SQL and anti-virus. Just read an interesting article. On AV and SQL by Michael K. Campbell - short, but gets to the point. It has a link to a very useful Microsoft KB article. On AV DLLs that cause SQL performance issues. Thursday, 19 December 2013. Solaris - /tmp permissions. Had a bit of a problem when one of the guys decided to restore file to the /tmp directory instead of the original location. Monday, 16 December 2013. Solaris - ZFS quota.

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sysadmin-tips-and-tricks: March 2014

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My personal Tech Notes. Wednesday, 26 March 2014. Powershell - Creating a scheduled task to run a script gathering application logs from a number of servers. Hmmm long title for such a small task. As the title says - gathering the application log from a number of servers, running it as a scheduled task. First of lets start with the script. Server = @('Server1','Server2','Server3');. Get the application log of every server listed above. Foreach ($computer in $server) {. Note to self - fix! Log of the task.

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sysadmin-tips-and-tricks: January 2014

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My personal Tech Notes. Tuesday, 7 January 2014. Powershell - Query Group Membership in another Domain. This in one way that I know of to search another Domain by mounting it as a drive (I'm sure there are different ways of skinning a cat but this technique would work for a number of Domains - again I'm sure there are further options to be able to the same thing! Query Group Membership #. Mount AD as a drive #. Get-ADGroup -Filter {Name -eq "ADGroup"}. Get-ADGroupMember -ea 0 -recurs. Recently we needed ...

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sysadmin-tips-and-tricks: Solaris - checking whether an account is locked or not

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My personal Tech Notes. Thursday, 15 November 2012. Solaris - checking whether an account is locked or not. Recently we needed to be able to check what the account status on one of the servers was as there was an access problem. Was it locked out? How do we check from a terminal session? Passwd -s account name. This comes back with the accounts status. In this instance it came back with:. PS = a normal working account. LK = locked out account. NP = account has no password. Passwd -u account name. We kept...

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sysadmin-tips-and-tricks: July 2015

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My personal Tech Notes. Friday, 31 July 2015. Powershell - NetApp Volumes, Snapshots and Dedup. Some basic scripts that helped we get some sizing information. First of all you'll need Powershell (who knew? And then the NetApp Powershell Toolkit - I found this link. First script get the volume information with a loop due to having a number of Filers to get information on:. Filers = (Get-Content C: Script Output Filers.txt). Foreach ($filer in $filers){. Connect-NAController $filer -Credential account-name.

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sysadmin-tips-and-tricks: NetApp - Simulator install

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My personal Tech Notes. Thursday, 6 November 2014. NetApp - Simulator install. NetApp simulator - useful for training on. First of all you will need a NetApp account to be able to log on to the site and gain access to the simulator. Having downloaded the Simulator for ESX and then uploaded it to the relevant host I received a error about the path the VMDK file is invalid. I managed to get the Simulator up and running by following instructions on the NetApp Community site. Solaris - DMI error. Usual issue...