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…
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…
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.
Don’t we all long for plain TXT files? What’s with this new-fangled RTF format? Let’s not use that.
So, I’ve been in “officially” in Austin for about 6 weeks now. I’m still learning the town and liking what I’m seeing, but last night I got a sign from God (at least for the geeky fan-boy in me) that this town is my new “home.” Last night I was out with other members of…
So, I’m getting married in just a few hours. I get to marry my best friend. She has been my rock and is helping me make more of myself every day. Though the ceremony will be small, you can share in our excitement by joining us online. Check it out here.
So today was my last day with my current employer. I’m off to new and exciting things, but hope to keep being able to share some of my insights with the community at large. Don’t expect too many posts in the near future, but I promise that I’ll try to add more posts as soon…
My organization uses Autonomy (now owned by HP) to integrate our Mail and Document Management Systems. Currently we’ve got it configured to run in multiple ways including automatic folder-based filing and point in time filing. From what the team who runs the Autonomy system tell me, it has horrible logging when an item doesn’t get…
Using the Exchange Management Console, you can easily identify ActiveSync devices which are out of sync for a period of time. This is just a re-hash of multiple other posts, but I still think that the way in which I identify the devices is unique. I used only one variable in this script; $Days –…
