Untangle 9.3.2 on Hyper-V 2012
I have just been playing with getting an Untangle (http://www.untangle.com) server up and running on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V install. Looking at this as a possible replacement to ISA 2004 on our...
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PowerShell 3: Add Multi-line TXT Record to DNS
This had me stumped for about 30 minutes, until I finally worked out the correct syntax to make this all work. I was looking for a way to create a TXT record on my DNS server. The data though is a...
View ArticleMagicISO with Intel ICH10R RAID Array
Was having trouble getting MagicISO to install on my Windows 7 x64 Professional machine that I had just rebuilt. It worked fine before I installed new hard disks, but not now. My new HDD have been...
View ArticleClean Up Unused Printer Drivers
Working on a printer migration project, and one of the first steps was to clean up the existing print servers so that when running the migration. I wanted a way to contact remote print servers too....
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Windows 2012: PrintService EventID 812 Error 0x5
Been working on a print server migration, and with the cutover we started noticing a lot of these errors in the PrintService Operational Log. This log has to be enabled before you will get these errors...
View ArticleModifying GPO Printer Deployment using PowerShell
We use the Deployed Printers feature in the Print Management console to deploy printers to users. As part of the printer migration that I have been working on, I needed to modify all of these GPOs so...
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SharePoint 2013: Renaming the Database Server
There are a number of posts on this online, but none of them exactly described the steps that I needed to take in order to rename the server that was hosting the SQL databases for our SharePoint...
View ArticleIISCrypto – Making SSL/TLS Configuration Easier
Following the recent Poodle vulnerability, and the general best practice that you should always use the most secure protocols available, I have been spending some time reconfiguring servers. Setting...
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‘You Have Been Logged On With a Temporary Profile’ when all profiles have...
This is a very strange issue, which I think will only affect a handful of people, and only those who have the right mix of configurations as described below. Users logging on to a Windows 7 machine...
View ArticleUsing Add-Type in a PowerShell script that is run as a Scheduled Task
I like using objects in PowerShell, they make management and scripting easier as your are dealing with named sets of information and not having to find objects in numbered arrays or use dictionaries....
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