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What 10 things should you do every day to improve your life?
1) Get out in nature: You probably seriously underestimate how important this is. (Actually, there’sresearch that says you do.) Being in nature reduces stress, makes you more creative, improves your...
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What 10 things should you do every *week* to improve your life?
There are a number of other things research says we can do to make life better but we don’t need to do them every day: 1) Create new good habits, kill bad habits: Changing your environment is the...
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What does it take to become an expert at anything?
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/08/what-does-it-take-to-become-an-expert-at-anyt/ Let’s round up the research so we can get to key actionable elements. In 95% of cases natural talent does not determine...
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What is IOPS and how to calculate IOPS for an application (Exchange, SQL,...
What is it and how to calculate IOPS This question is frequent, mostly because how Dell solutions Consultant that is a hardware manufacturer we know. What are IOPS? Is the number of operations per...
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Backing up Zone Files in Windows Server 2008 DNS Zone
Someone asked me to turn re-use an old server from having a catalog installed to just hosting primary DNS zones. So before I make this Active directory integrated DNS server to just a primary or do...
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How To Find Your Local NTP Server
So, you get on site and no one knows where their NTP server is, there’s a quick and easy way to find out. The old schoolers will tell you to use the net time commmand, but this was deprecated and is no...
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How To Clean Up C:\Windows\Winsxs
So you’ve been taking a look at what’s eating your hard drive space with WinDirStat or TreeSizeFree or similar and have spotted the C:\Windows\Winsxs folder. Winsxs stands for Windows Side by Side and...
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How To Backup/Restore An Active Directory Integrated DNS Zone
Whenever you make a fundamental change to a DNS zone it’s a good idea to back it up, but how do you do that when your DNS is Active Directory Integrated without taking a system state backup? We’ll take...
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How To Fix Non Starting SQL Reporting Services
The SQL Server Reporting Services … service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. Sound familiar? It was a...
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Licensing for SQL Server 2012
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2942/understanding-the-sql-server-2012-licensing-model/ http://sqlmag.com/sql-server-2012/sql-server-2012-editions Editions and Components of SQL Server 2012...
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Do you have a job? Or a career?
Originally posted on Don Jones: I meet lots of IT folks at classes and conferences, all around the world. I’m struck by the marked difference in attitude that some folks have about what they do for a...
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Why do people always want what they can’t have ?
Found this on Quora People always want what they can’t have. Here are three reasons why this is so: 1. Heightened attention: When something is hard to get (or forbidden) you immediately pay more...
View ArticleHow to find MTU on a list of Windows Servers, using PowerShell ?
# This script can be used to find MTU size on a list of servers. Choose FQDN or make sure all servers are accessible using server name. # Get-NetIPInterface is part of PowerShell module NetTCPIP, and...
View ArticlePowerShell script to find Log mode, and max Log file size of Security Log for...
#This PowerShell script will give the Log mode and the max log file size of Eventvwr -> Security Log for each server with OS 2008R2 and above. ## Servers which we failed to connect or unable to get...
View ArticlePowerShell script to change the Log mode of Eventvwr -> Security Log to...
### This PowerShell script will change the Log mode of Eventvwr -> Security Log to Circular (i.e. OverwriteasNeeded) for a given list of servers. # This works for servers with OS 2008R2 and above. #...
View ArticlePowerShell script to find OS name, Service Pack Version and OS-Architecture...
### PowerShell script to find OS name, Service Pack Version and OS-Architecture (32/64 bit) for given list of servers # servers which we failed to connect to get any info are collected in to a txt file...
View ArticlePowerShell script to find a server is physical server or virtual machine
### Powershell script gives Manufacturer and Server Model for a given list of servers, and we can find if its a VM or a physical server. ### eg: for a VM, manufacturer will be “VMware, Inc.”, and model...
View ArticlePowerShell script to find FQDN and get ping status of Windows Servers
### PowerShell script to find FQDN and get ping status for given list of windows servers # Servers which we failed to connect to get any info are collected in to a txt file. ### Writing credits : VM...
View ArticlePowerShell script to find all IP addresses assigned on a list of Windows Servers
### PowerShell script to find all IP addresses assigned on a list of Windows Servers. ### List all IP addresses assigned in each server, includes IPv6...
View ArticlePowerShell script to find network info for all NICs on a list of Windows servers
### PowerShell script to find for all NICs on a Windows server : IP address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, if DHCP is enabled, DNS servers, WINS servers # This works on a given list of servers, and collects...
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