Tutorials I have written up, or mashed up from other sources.
Believe it or not there are many features of VMWare I do not get to use every day, however one that I have been neglecting other than to pass a VCP exam I had and be familiar with it was the Customization Specification Manager… I have been missing out. This weekend I had some extra time and wanted to see how powerful this tool is and put it to good use against one my Windows Server 2012 R2 template I…
The first part about setting up the lab in general is deploying the OVA template you have downloaded from the Cisco website. Also ensure that you have Java Runtime Environment 1.6 or higher installed. This guide makes the assumption you know enough about VMWare to deploy an OVA/F on your own. I downloaded the 3.0.2cPE1 from https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-57526. This usually only takes a minute or two. Once deployed you will probably notice the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator runs on top of…
Recently I had to pull the GUID of a server remotely at work, I didn’t quite know how to do this off the top of my head. I found a few websites that suggested the following commands: Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystemProduct | Select-Object -ExpandProperty UUID Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystemProduct -ComputerName HOSTNAME | Select-Object -ExpandProperty UUID Both work, but I wanted to make a small powershell script where it would prompt me for the hostname and get it. $hostname = Read-Host ‘What is the hostname’…
Installing Debian is a pretty straight forward process, it can be confusing at first, but this tutorial should help make it easy. This tutorial will be used as a base for a few other upcoming tutorials. This tutorial assumes you have the requisite knowledge on how to configure a virtual machine and download the Network Installation ISO file from Debian. They can be found here. The above should be the first screen you see when you boot up Debian. You…
Generally I have a decent experience at most of the places I go to, however recently I had a need for extra pages to be put into my passport within 24 hours and there wasn’t too much choice here in Kuwait as far as appointments, the next appointment was Sunday, so I deiced to look around. So curiosity struck, which consulate could do it fastest in the region? Here is my review: Abu Dhabi – Easy to get an appointment…
A little over a year ago while I was working in Afghanistan, I purchased a 1 Terabyte Western Digital hard drive. It had performed very well until it was dropped, since it has been very slow and getting data off of it has been very tedious. In today’s two part post I am going to go over the options you generally have when something like this occurs. In my case I am lucky and the drive still spins and is…
Some of you remember that video on the game snake I made a while back, I am going to start trying to make more videos, today’s video is on installing Windows Server 2012.
Some of you may think having a livewallpaper is distracting, some of you may actually enjoy it! Recently I downloaded a copy of CrunchBang and put it on my *nix box. I noticed not all of the wallpapers listed were avaiable, however it is an easy fix! sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-gl-extra The above command will download a bunch of extra screensavers. Its about 11MB. The next step is getting xwinwrap, I got it from: http://tech.shantanugoel.com/projects/linux/shantz-xwinwrap – The source is available…
This may help some of you; it looks for accounts within a certain OU and outputs their expiration date and email if their account expires in 7 days (no more, no less!). # Inspired by: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Email-Active-Directory-452a5640 # Modified for use by; Salomon Johns # Find users within a certain OU that have accounts expiring in 7 days (no more, no less) # Print out the results Get-QADUser -ou “ou=users,dc=test,dc=domain,dc=local” -includedproperties AccountExpires -sAMAccountName ‘*’ | ForEach-Object { $sevendays = (Get-Date).AddDays(7).ToString(‘yyyyMMdd’) $samaccountname…