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PowerShell Script Monitors Security Logs and Sends Email Alerts.
I wrote this PowerShell script to send email alerts when Active Directory User Account, Security and Distribution Group Management events occur in the Security logs.A few parameters will need to be edited to adapt the script to any Active Directory domain environment.Also, the script will not work on Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Domain Controllers…
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About Interstellar the Movie !!
#Interstellar: Christopher Nolan’s overwhelming, immersive and time-bending space epic ‘Interstellar’ makes Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ feel like a palate cleanser for the big meal to come. Where ‘Gravity’ was brief, contained and left the further bounds of the universe to our imagination, ‘Interstellar’ is long, grand, strange and demanding – not least because it allows time…
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Resizing/Expanding a Virtual Disk and Resynchronizing to Replica Hyper-v Virtual Machine .
Hyper-v Server 2012 R2 has added functionality that enables an admin expand the size of a running/online virtual machine disk.In my Hyper-v 2012 R2 environment, I recently resized a clustered virtual machine root volume (vhdx file)via the following steps: Open Failover Cluster Manager, navigate to the specific VM, right click and select settings, select hard…
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Enabling Jumbo Frames on Windows Server 2012 R2 using PowerShell and on Cisco 3560G using IOS commands.
Jumbo frames are Ethernet frames with a payload greater than the standard mtu of 1500. Increasing the mtu size on a 1 GB network usually improves network performance and efficiency.The following PowerShell cmdlets will help display and check current jumbo frame values and edit them.The maximum value of a Jumbo frame on an Ethernet adapter…
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Eric Schmidt explains how arrogance cost potential Google employees half a billion dollars | VentureBeat | OffBeat | by Jillian D’Onfro, Business Insider
http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/11/eric-schmidt-explains-how-arrogance-cost-potential-google-employees-half-a-billion-dollars/# The test, he explains, is to ask whether you believe a candidate can work with other people to effect change. If someone comes across as overly arrogant, it could mean that they won’t work well on a team. Instead of thinking about what’s best for the cooperation, they’ll think about what’s best for themselves…
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PowerShell Script uses Split() Method to display Active Directory Users’ Organizational Unit and other Properties.
A colleague was trying to generate a report of Active Directory Users, displaying their Organizational Unit and PasswordNeverExpires property status. Normally this should be very simple, but they ran into a small snag. The Active Directory module at the time of this writing which is PowerShell 4.0 does not have a direct Organizational Unit property…
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Configuring Transactional Replication between MSSQL 2000 and MSSQL 2012 Databases Part 1
Microsoft® describes replication as a set of solutions that allow you to copy, distribute, and potentially modify data across your enterprise. Simply put it’s involves a mechanism that makes it possible to synchronize data across multiple database copies in any enterprise. We’ve been running MSSQL 2000 replication for a while now to isolate our Reporting…
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Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming with EtherChannel on Cisco 3750G Switch.
Windows Server 2012 R2 built in NIC Teaming code enables link aggregation of multiple network adapters with same speeds for outbound traffic from the host. To take advantage of inbound traffic aggregation, the switch ports will have to be configured for Etherchannel. In the example below, an already configured SwitchIndependent NIC team is converted to…
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23 Best Practices to improve Hyper-V and VM Performance
Best practices are the most obvious starting point for improving your Hyper-V and Virtual Machine performance and I’ve listed 23 of them for you below. 1. Avoid overloading Hyper-V Server You must not overload Hyper-V Server. In other words, there is no need to host virtual machines which have no functions or I would say…
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Moving TempDB Database Files on MSSQL 2012 R2.
I ran into a disk space situation on a new database server and decided to move the Tempdb files to a new drive location. My first thought was to detach the database and move the files. It turns out you can’t detach a tempdb database since it’s a system database. The following T-SQL query helped…
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Chinny Chukwudozie, Ai architecture. 