Building my Orion Lab (Differencing Disks)
So, I made a quick edit on the script that I used in this post to use Differencing Disks.
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Building My Orion Lab
So, I normally need to build a Lab for my SolarWinds Orion. If I’m doing this on my own machine and don’t have the luxury of a Windows Deployment Server (WDS), and I’ve built a custom hard drive for my Windows Servers, then I use a PowerShell script to do this work for me. (Seeing…
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Creating a Windows Server Hard Drive “Template” for Hyper-V
This may not be the “official” way to create a template for Hyper-V according to Microsoft, but if you are running in an environment without SCCM or WDS (or on your personal machine), I’ve found that this process works very well. This is fairly simple list of tasks, but it’s very long. Thankfully, you’ll only…
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Configure IIS Logging
I always move my IIS logs to a different drive, and I almost always include all fields. This is something that annoys me since I have to do it over and over again. Just like everything that I have to do over and over again, I wrote a script to do it for me. The…
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Moving SolarWinds Logs to a new Drive
I built a script which facilitates changing the default logging location for most SolarWinds programs in a SolarWinds Orion installation. Not every log can be moved, but this script does change the majority of the log locations and also takes a backup of the original file beforehand. The important part is the RegEx that is used…
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Removing Default Web Site & Application Pool
I’m always sick and tired of having to remove the IIS Default Web Site and DefaultAppPool after I’ve installed the Web Roles in Windows Server 2012 R2. So, I created a short script that will remove them. DISCLAIMER: These materials are provided “AS IS” without any express or implied warranty of any kind.
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Required Windows Features with SolarWinds Orion
My presentation is completely built around optimizing your SolarWinds Orion installation. In that presentation, I make reference to several scripts that I use to help me in provisioning Orion Servers. One such script is used to install the necessary Windows Features for each role. It uses XML files as the source for which features are needed…
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PowerShell function to suppress HTTPS self-signed certificate errors
I’ve been working frequently with the Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod functions recently against my SolarWinds Orion infrastructure. I’d normally use the Swis Snapin, but instead wanted to get a little more experience with JSON and XML. Now, when I try to make that call to port 17778 on any machine except the Orion server itself, I…
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Geocoding Longitude and Latitude using PowerShell and the Google Maps API
So, I ran into an issue where I needed to convert a ton of addresses to map points for use with a database. It’s not something that I have to do too often, but I decided to look through the documentation for Bing, Google, OpenStreet, and MapQuest API’s.
