A collection of my PowerShell adventures, featuring scripts, automation experiments, problem-solving, and reusable code samples from real-world IT projects.
![Building my Orion Server [Scripting Edition] – Step 3](https://i0.wp.com/blog.kmsigma.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PoShSWI.png?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1 "Building my Orion Server [Scripting Edition] - Step 3 1")
I’m keeping this original post active for historical reference, but you should not use the below, since I have an update: Step 3 is dead. Long live step 3.1 This is it. The endgame. Here I’ll give you the final steps in configuring my server. We started with creating the virtual machine then moved to…
In Step 1 of this series, I showed off the PowerShell scripts that I use to create a new Orion Server VM on Hyper-V. Now we are on to configuring the disks. As before, we have a boot drive and 4 additional drives which will contain various data files. We first need to bring the disks…
This is part 1 of a multi-part post on updates that I’ve made to How I Build an Orion Server. Primarily, it will be three parts. If you have VMware, I’ve also got a script edition for that as well. Building my Orion Servers in Hyper-V Configuring the disks on the VM after OS install…
Today I ran into an interesting continuous integration-type scenario. One of the skunkworks projects that I’m looking at internally yields frequent builds of MSI files for the same product. These MSI files are automatically generated (sometimes daily) by our source control system.
A few days ago, I spoke before a small group of people about what I’d been doing with the Orion SDK. I mentioned that I had created a Spider-Orion script that I use to navigate to every page in my install. When I mentioned this script several people asked where it was published. The short answer –…
Monitoring Exchange servers is important because email is important, but it’s hard to do that when there aren’t any performance counters to reference. Let’s fix that.
Virtualization Manager 7 has just been released – Analyze the Past, Fix the Present, Prepare for the Future It’s pretty epic with some great new features, but I’m going to concentrate on the deployment of the virtual appliance (vApp) itself.
UPDATE: There’s an updated version of this post now available for scripters. I’ve posted several times about how I personally build my SolarWinds Orion Servers. For this post, I’ll just discuss how I setup a Main Polling Engine on a Windows 2012 R2 Server.
Virtual Hard Drives are the nuts and bolts of Virtualized Servers. This includes Linux Servers, but converting the hard drives provided some interesting findings. After reading a bunch of the Microsoft documents about running Hyper-V for performance, there’s a big push to move all machines From Generation 1 to Generation 2 and Hard Drives to…
