Jeramy Thompson

Microsoft has released update rollup 3 for DPM 2012 http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2012/10/10/system-center-2012-update-rollup-3-ur3-released.aspx Issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (KB2751230) Issue 1   After you upgrade System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 to System Center Data Protection Manager 2012, the tape management report does not display overdue tapes.  Issue 2   System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Client Protection does not scale to the limits that are expected.  Issue 3   When you try to specify a client computer name in the DPMServerName attribute by using Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell crashes.  Issue 4   When the name of a Microsoft SharePoint site collection contains a space, and you perform a SharePoint item-level recovery operation in System Center Data Protection Manager 2012, the operation fails.  Issue 5   After you rename a S

Well this is rather unfortunate since the servers we bought a year ago are all G6's but i guess that is how IT goes. HP will only officially support G7 and G8 server series. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/windows/index.html

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on computers that are running Windows Server 2012 from a remote computer that is running Windows 8. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972 Overview Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers, and command-line tools for managing roles and features that run on Windows Server 2012. In limited cases, the tools can be used to manage roles and features that are running on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008. Some of the tools work for managing roles and features on Windows Server 2003. Top of page System requirements Supported operating systems:  Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro **Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 can be installed ONLY on computers that are running Windows 8.** Remote Serv

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Microsoft has released a free E-Book for Server 2012. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/09/05/free-ebook-introducing-windows-server-2012-rtm-edition.aspx?Loc=zTS3z&type=zDLz&media=zBKz&prog=zPressz&prod=zWSz

Checking hard drive space gets old, and if you want historical data it was a manual processes, so i created this script i run once a day to update a SQL database, and connect to it from excel to give me a historical data usage on our shared drives. Enjoy.

So the other day it was brought up to give a user access to see what users are in a specific set of groups in a specific OU. I did not want to install the admin tools just so they could use the ActiveDirectory modules, so i had to write this script using only ADSI. using ADSI only requires the end user to have read access to the objects. Here ya go have fun. # Group enumerator script by Jeramy Thompson # Downloaded from http://jeramythompson.blogspot.com/ # Change $ouPath to the path of groups you want to enumerate # To popluate different user properties # change $userCN.mail to $userCN.(property) for example # if you wanted the samaccount name change it to # $userCN.sAMAccountName # # # $ouPath = "OU=OUNAME,DC=netbiosdomain,DC=domain,DC=com" [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms") [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing") $Form1 = New-Object System.Windows.F