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Background: In an earlier post I talked about some new features for Windows 2008 and Vista. One of those new features that is often overlooked are the data collector sets (DCS). One particular role that leverages data collector sets is active
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This is more of a proof of concept, but I've used it with success internally. Take it and do with it what you want. Many thx to Brandon who did the "heavy lifting" when I got stuck! Overview: Ever run into cluster issues and wanted to see if the driver
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Man it was hard to find info on using set-acl on a registry key! I was looking for a way to set an ACL that once set would be inherited by child keys and values. We needed to give “Local Service” full control on the registry
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Over the past few months I have fallen in love with PowerShell. I’ve taken on a new role (starting in mid-October) that will be more focused on automating out administrative tasks via powershell so the focus of this blog might change more
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First, I found the details here . Second, things can change as this is being done with the CTP for Powershell 2.0 Third, if you don’t know about remoting in 2.0 watch this 5 minute video . Then read this . Whew. Backstory: You might find yourself in a
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Ran into a weird issue where I was getting access denied when trying to query nodes remotely in powershell. The query was working fine against Windows 2003 cluster names and worked locally when ran on a Windows 2008 cluster node, it just didn’t
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So i know there are tools out there to do this but figured some would be interested on how to do this real quick with stuff that's already in the OS. 1) Turn off echos to make the out put clean (don’t forget to turn it back on when its done via “echo
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