Platforms

How To, Linux, Linux-KVM

Today we will be discussing the process of configuring VLANs for the KVM Guests to use to gain access to a wider variety of networks from a single host. This is extremely helpful if you are able to take advantage of 10Gbps connections, as you can eliminate multiple 1Gbps connections…

Exchange, How To, Powershell, Windows

Exchange Management: Locate Email Addresses

matthew.mattoon

April 27, 2011

If you have a large Exchange environment with a large amount of users, contacts, distribution lists, and public folders you can end up “losing” email addresses. It can take a lot of time to perform the different types of searches required to locate an email address. Or you can use…

Active Directory, How To, Powershell, Windows

Active Directory: Identify Stale Computer Accounts

matthew.mattoon

April 26, 2011

Using the Active Directory Modules included with Windows 7 + Windows 2008 R2 we can use powershell to identify computer accounts which are “stale” and have not changed their passwords in a specified amount of time. Define the Windows for “Stale” Example will check for 365 days old. Count the…

How To, Powershell, Windows

Windows Client Management: Remotely Enable DHCP

matthew.mattoon

April 25, 2011

Using WMI and Powershell we can remotely configure a client machine to use DHCP as long as you (1) have administrator rights on the remote machine (2) want all interfaces to be DHCP (3) know the computer name or IP of the remote machine (4) have Powershell installed on your…

How To, Solaris, ZFS

ZFS: Delegate ZFS Permissions

matthew.mattoon

April 13, 2011

It is widely accepted as best practice to not use your root account in general. In Solaris they like some Linux distributions have gone so far as to prevent root access to SSH. Now we could go the route of permitting route logins to SSH however this would not be…

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