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Kevin M. Sparenberg
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  • Amateur TV Repairs
    Personal | Random

    Amateur TV Repairs

    ByKevin May 10, 2016

    As many of you know, the missus and I have recently moved.  When we finally got the TV setup in the bedroom, we found an error on the screen.

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  • Converting Linux VHD’s to VHDx
    *NIX | Linux | PowerShell | Virtual Appliance | Windows Server

    Converting Linux VHD’s to VHDx

    ByKevin April 26, 2016November 19, 2020

    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…

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  • Building my Orion Lab (Differencing Disks)
    PowerShell | SolarWinds

    Building my Orion Lab (Differencing Disks)

    ByKevin April 25, 2016July 14, 2026

    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
    PowerShell | SolarWinds

    Building My Orion Lab

    ByKevin April 25, 2016April 25, 2016

    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
    PowerShell | Windows Server

    Creating a Windows Server Hard Drive “Template” for Hyper-V

    ByKevin April 12, 2016April 12, 2016

    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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  • Forever in our hearts
    Family

    Forever in our hearts

    ByKevin March 31, 2016July 14, 2026

    Today, we laid to rest a great man; Sam Centineo.

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  • Configure IIS Logging
    PowerShell | SolarWinds

    Configure IIS Logging

    ByKevin February 25, 2016March 3, 2016

    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
    PowerShell | SolarWinds

    Moving SolarWinds Logs to a new Drive

    ByKevin February 25, 2016March 3, 2016

    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
    PowerShell | SolarWinds

    Removing Default Web Site & Application Pool

    ByKevin February 25, 2016August 10, 2020

    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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