MPViewer v1.7 returns no rule severity/priority data for the System Center Configuration Manager Management Pack version 6.0.6000.3 (27/9/2011) . This script can be used to extract that information. 1: #requires -version 2 2: < # ...

  This script was put together very quickly to accomplish the objective stated in the title. 1: #requires -version 2.0 2: < # 3: author: Johan Vosloo 4: date: 24/11/2011 5: purpose: Retrieve event id’s from multiple...

Time for a Friday night post. Microsoft PFE raise the absence of system performance baselines pretty much in every Risk Assessment Program (RAP) or Health Check . Customers do not generally create performance baselines. So, what are the typical uses...

This script can be used to move mailboxes, specified within a CSV input file, between mailbox servers. It will also update the MPS Resource Manager database. # Author: Johan Vosloo # Date: 12/10/2009 # Purpose: Bulk move mailboxes from...

Issue: Laptop Wireless NIC is not available by default to VM’s in Hyper-V :-( Solution: In Hyper-V Virtual Network Manager , create a new ‘Internal Only’ NIC e.g. Virtual Wireless Network In Windows Server 2008 R2 Network...

(Simple high-level step-by-step for the admin that does not require screenshots. The process below is probably useful for building a lab, production deployments would require little more planning.) Basic Info TMG is basically an Outbound Proxy....

The other day I was asked to assist with implementing the scenarios below: Scenario 1: Alert for changes to the ‘Domain Admin’ group membership Scenario 2: Alert when the Audit Policy is changed (Default Domain or Domain Controller...

Scenarios that are discussed in this blog post include: Scenario 1: Computers joined to the domain (names and description) Scenario 2: User passwords expired Scenario 3: User accounts locked out Scenario 4: Group policy changes Scenario 1: Computers joined...

Manually enable the ‘Operations Manager Audit Forwarding Service’ (AdtAgent.exe). Regedit > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\AdtAgent\Parameters] > New > Multi-String Value > AdtServers > ‘CollectorFQDN’ Note: Step...

Hope this script will help someone out there! # Script # Author: Johan Vosloo # Date: 16-10-2009 # Purpose: Bulk approve updates by specifying the UpdateID, WSUS Group Name and a Computer Name (any computer that is a member of the applicable group...

This is yet another article on how to determine Paged and Nonpaged pool limits. This method does not require internet access on the computer that we want to analyse. I recently had a customer that experienced pool exhaustion on a failover cluster and...