Chinny Chukwudozie, Cloud Solutions.

Resolving Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster Kerberos Security Issue – Invalid DNS Error

December 10, 2013

I’ve been running Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster for about a year and it’s been stable up until now. Recently, I encountered an issue where Live migration of VMs failed across all hosts in the cluster. In addition, the Failover Cluster Manager started displaying the following error: Cluster network name resource ‘Cluster Name’ failed registration…

Flowers Only Bloom On Upper-Eastside || Spoken Word by Cynthia Amoah.

December 10, 2013

Powerful and thought provoking words by Cynthia Amoah .

Converting a User Mailbox to Resource Room Mailbox using PowerShell.

December 1, 2013

In past versions of Exchange Server, specifically Exchange 2003, managing Resource Room mailboxes was not exactly a straight forward process. In my organization at the time, to manage room Calendars and bookings for Conference rooms (they were not referred to as Resource Rooms at the time), we had to create mailboxes to represent the conference…

Checking Available Disk Space and Memory with Powershell.

November 26, 2013

I frequently need to display the disk size, available disk space properties and Processor details of my remote Hyper-v 2012 Hosts servers. I could use the Computer Management snapin to do this, but it involves too many steps just to get there. The Get-VM cmdlet while cool, will not display disk based properties. So I…

Renaming AD User Object Surname Property.

November 18, 2013

The following script renames the Surname property of an Active Directory User Object. The script requires PowerShell 3.0. The only edit required is the organizational Exchange Server name specified in the New-PSSession cmdlet. The script accepts the Given Name, Surname and new Surname parameters’ input from the console,executes the rename of the Active Directory object…

Awe-inspiring split video by the amazing Jean-Claude Van Damme!!

November 16, 2013

A body crafted to perfection.A pair of legs Engineered to defy the laws of physics. And a mindset to muster the most epic of splits!! :Awe-inspiring split video by the amazing Jean-Claude Van Damme performed on Volvo trucks driven backwards!! Dang !! With Van Damme and Volvo, it appears the balance between mind, body and…

Configuring multiple ISCSI Connections for Multipath IO using PowerShell.

November 11, 2013

This post will be focused mainly on the ISCSI Initiator host and configuring multipath IO paths to an ISCSI Target. The ISCSI Target portal has already been configured with 2 network paths for ISCSI. The ISCSI Service by default is in a ‘Stopped’ state. So, we’ll begin by starting the service: [hyperv00]: PS C:\Users\admin\Documents> Start-Service…

Configuring Hyper-v Host Network Adapters for ISCSI Storage Connectivity with Powershell .

November 4, 2013

Windows Server 2012 R2 with PowerShell 4.0 has hugely expanded support for configuring multiple NICs on a Cluster/ISCSI Initiator node via command line. After deploying multiple Network Interface Cards on my Hyper-v host, it took me a while to figure out how to properly configure the NICS with PowerShell . Prior to Windows Server 2012,…

There Are No More “Tech Issues”

November 3, 2013

Here’s the lesson: there are no more “tech issues.” America and startups got hosed because Silicon Valley was politically absent. Since everything now has crucial technology components, the technology industry cannot sit out any issue.

PowerShell 3.0 Script creates AD user and Exchange Mailbox.

October 19, 2013

This interactive script requires PowerShell 3.0 . It creates an Active Directory user and their corresponding mailbox using a remote session at the same time. It should work out of the box, but specific variables will have to be edited to reflect the Active Directory configuration of the organization in question. function New-Employee { Param…