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.
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How I Build an Orion Server
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.
Converting RTF to TXT via PowerShell
So I ran into a problem recently where I needed to convert an RTF document back to it’s base text values. I could do it via a copy & paste, but after digging around a little bit, I happened on an article from Microsoft with some pointers. How to: Convert RTF to Plain Text (C# … Read more
TechEd 2013 Media Leeching
This was my first year at Microsoft’s TechEd, and I have to say that I was blown away by the volume of content. There were several different times that I was unable to attend a session that I wanted because I was triple if not quadruple booked. Now that I’m back at the office, I … Read more
PowerShell & BlackBerry 10 Web Services (Part 1 – Preparation)
This is a follow-up to my previous four-part post about PowerShell & BlackBerry Web Services. If you need a primer on where this is coming from, see the first series. Like before, I’m going to run through each step that I used when setting this up, though there will be fewer references to the specifics … Read more
PowerShell & BlackBerry 10 Web Services (Part 2 – Coding)
In my first post, I explained how to get started with the BlackBerry 10 Web Services. Mostly it revolves around downloading and compiling a DLL that contains all the BlackBerry Web Service objects. In this post, I’ll be going over the PowerShell code that I wrote to leverage this DLL. We’re going to start with … Read more
Global Exchange 2010 Mail Flow
So, I got it in my head that it might be nice to have a script in my pocket to monitor the Exchange 2010 Mail Flow speeds. I used to have a similar script that worked with the Exchange 2007 systems that I maintain, but with the extensions of the PowerShell Snap-ins within Exchange 2010 … Read more
PowerShell & BlackBerry Web Services (Part 4 – Coding)
As a summary, in Part 1, we did the necessary prep work. In Part 2, we looked at the way that we could load the types generated from the BlackBerry Web Services. In Part 3, we went over the pseudocode that was provided by Research In Motion. Here in Part 4, we’re actually going to … Read more
PowerShell & BlackBerry Web Services (Part 3 – Pseudocode)
In Part 1 of this series, we created a few files that are necessary to use the BlackBerry Web Services extensions. In Part 2, I showed you how to load them into PowerShell. Here in Part 3, we’ll be converting the C# sample code published by Research In Motion to PowerShell. A note about SSL: … Read more
PowerShell & BlackBerry Web Services (Part 2 – Loading)
In my previous post (here), I ran through the process of downloading and creating your own C# file and then compiling that into a DLL for use with BlackBerry’s Web Services (version 5.0.3+). After that work, you now have yourself a BesProxy.cs and a BesProxy.dll file that you can use to create the objects for … Read more