Required Windows Features with SolarWinds Orion

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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 … Read more

Holiday Party 2015

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[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”5″ gal_title=”Holiday Party 2015″] Had a great time at the company Holiday Party this year.  This is a few of the pictures snapped up.

PowerShell function to suppress HTTPS self-signed certificate errors

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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 … Read more

Celebrity Sighting!

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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 … Read more

Wedded Bliss!

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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.

End of an Era

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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 as I get my feet under me.

Thanks for reading and until next time…

–Kevin

Exchange & Autonomy

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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 … Read more

Identifying Old ActiveSync Devices

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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 – … Read more