Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Don't use HPE custom VMware installer if you want to stay secure with VMware Update Manager.

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Prevent VMware purple screens of death. Do not use HPE custom installer. HPE support states that if you use their custom VMware cd you sho...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Replace or Restore MS SQLSERVER database from backup

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Sometimes you want to revert a database from an earlier backup. Here is a quick way without using the gui. RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWor...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

SCCM Software Update Summarization is bad for you son

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Our sql server was getting hit hard by a query. Initially I wrote a script to email me when queries were taxing the server. I saw the query ...
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Thursday, July 9, 2015

powershell to list old dns records and then delete them

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#list_old_records $records = Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName example.com $records = $records | ? Timestamp -ne $null $records = $re...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

setting proper web root permissions

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# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/vhost/example.com/ NOTE! : The  www-data  user is used by nginx and php5-fpm. If you are running ...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

using rancid with password from secretserver

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Rancid, http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/ , is awesome for switch config automation, but keeping the passwords in plain text isn't a goo...

memory is ram!

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I had an issue where a webserver should have been running smoothly using normal disk cache. After pulling my hair out for a while I finally ...