January 28, 2009 11:40 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
CRM,
Microsoft CRM,
Microsoft Dynamics CRM,
System Administration,
systems managementI've been doing a good deal of work with Microsoft CRM lately. Heck, I'll say it... I've been doing ALL my work with Microsoft CRM lately. It's a beast that no one here at "the office" knows about and I've become "The Guy". You know what that means, scramble to stay ahead of the...
January 2, 2009 3:01 AM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
Systems Administration,
systems management,
VBScript,
Win32_NTLogEvent,
Windows Management Interface,
WMIOn occasion as a systems administrator you have to find the proverbial needle in the haystack with respect to the events in the event logs. You know what I mean, the one event you care about and need to know when it occured as part of your troubleshooting... then throw in that you need to do it in...
November 10, 2008 4:01 AM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
date,
systems management,
VBScript,
win32_localtimeRecently, after the time change I had to log into around 30 to 40 servers to check that the date was correct. This was a real pain, since it required me to actually log onto the server via terminal services and run a command prompt to issue a date command.
Unfortunately, I didn't have a script...
April 16, 2008 7:11 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
DataCenter,
Development,
Functions,
VBScriptBy now, if your reading my blog you've had a chance to play with the script I posted for
March 7, 2008 10:22 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
Administration tools,
DataCenter,
Exchange,
Networking,
SecurityWhile not VBScript related, I found this Microsoft Eventlog and Error Message Search a few days ago as I stumbled around looking for tools that I thought network administrators would need on
March 4, 2008 1:57 AM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
DataCenter,
Development,
VBScript,
Windows Management Interface,
WMIIn this entry we'll take a look at the microsoft documentation for win32_printerdriver and determine how we can determine what values to use to get data once we've created a script to get set of data back from a WMI object...
February 20, 2008 5:12 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
DataCenter,
Development,
IT careersSearchWinIt has an interesting podcast that caught my eye just now, titled Microsoft issues largest patch bundle since August. However, the truly...
February 20, 2008 7:47 AM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
DataCenter,
DevelopmentIn this blog entry I want to setup the next few blog entries that will deal with a technology that is quite possibly one of the most powerful tools in a Network Administrators tool chest... the Windows Management Interface or WMI.
WMI is a powerful tool when combined with scripting, you can use...
February 16, 2008 9:24 AM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
DataCenter,
Development,
VBScriptFor my first Blog entry I'd like to create a list of software you'll need (along with some recommendations) to easily follow along with my next posts. Some of you will already be ahead of the game here, but if you'll allow me just a bit of time to get others up to speed and get started I assure you...
