October 29, 2009 8:00 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Media,
Media Streaming,
Microsoft Windows,
WindowsI have played with one of the preview releases and I liked it just fine. I just read some good info on Engadget that leads me to believe that I will like Windows 7 just because of the media center upgrades that have been done.
I...
October 28, 2009 8:00 AM
Posted by: Colin Smith
VacationWell I am very close to heading out on a nice 10 day vacation to Hawaii. I have been looking forward to this for about 6 months and it is finally here. I fly out on Wednesday morning and I will not return until the following Friday. I may post while I am on vacation of I see anything or do anything...
October 27, 2009 3:30 AM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Cluster,
MSSQL,
MSSQL Administration,
MSSQL Install,
MSSQL Server,
SQL Server 2008Last week I got the chance to work on an Active, Active, Active SQL Server 2008 Cluster install. This was new to me and very fun. We have three physical hosts all using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. The Servers are also running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. I worked with one of our...
October 26, 2009 4:26 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
MS SQL Admin,
MS SQL Server,
MS SQL Troubleshooting,
MSSQL Administration,
SQL Server 2005Just got a call that three databases on an instance where many reside were not accessible. Users were getting errors about not enough disk, memory, or the files were inaccessible. I logged into the server and found that the databases were not offline but could not be accessed. I looked into the...
October 22, 2009 10:00 AM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Certification,
MS SQL Server,
MSSQL,
StudySo Like I said before I did take the MCTS Exam and I did pass. I can not go into any detail about the test as you have to agree to an NDA before you take it. The test was, in my opinion, not as hard as the study material. I think that MS did a great job with the study material for this test. I was...
October 21, 2009 4:00 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Android,
Email,
Exchange,
PhoneOne reason that I was so excited to get this phone was that it supports Exchange Active Sync out of the box. This is great for me since I would like to consolidate down to one phone and get rid of my employer provided device that I am not so fond of. Well I was very disappointed when it did not...
October 21, 2009 10:00 AM
Posted by: Colin Smith
AD,
AD Administration,
AD Managment,
Powershell,
ScriptingHere is the full script so you can copy and paste it. Remember that you will need to make some modifications to the script to fit your environment. Let me know if you have any questions at...
October 20, 2009 6:48 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
AD,
AD Administration,
AD Managment,
Powershell,
Q and A,
Scripting
I got the following comment on Part 3 of the script.
RobDolfijn
Hi Colin,
This is just what I need so I’m looking forward to the whole script!
I’m getting stuc on Get_Users because it...
October 20, 2009 4:45 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
AD,
AD Administration,
AD Managment,
Powershell,
ScriptingAs i recall, in Part 5 we had gathered all the account information, parsed that, disabled accounts that needed to be disabled, gathered information on all the disabled accounts, and removed the accounts from the domain that needed to be...