I found a great little app that can be used for auto tabbing your applications on a screen like a slide show. I can find a bunch of reason you want to do this. Trade-shows, demo in sales office, news screens in a waiting room. The reason I am using it, makeshift NOC.
I have a few different monitoring applications at the company I work for. Right now we are designing a NOC display system. I needed something to auto-tab the screens back and forth on the workstation that is controlling the displays.
The app I found off Softpedia is called AUTO TAB. The program was written by http://www.analogx.com. You can download the app here: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/System/autotab/Freeware.htm or here: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/AutoTab-Download-52753.html.
This application is very small and does exactly what I needed. It auto-tabs between open applications on the desktop to a time set by the user. That's it, that's all it does. Let me tell you, it works perfectly.
-Boston Tech Guy
UPDATE NOTE: I found it does have one issue. It recognizes Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets as applications. If you are using this on a Windows 7 machine and have Gadgets, close them.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Powershell Deleting files By Date
When dealing with a computer, one must always be aware of proper syntax. For you could have a problem like Geordi and Data when trying to play Holmes on Next Gen.
For the last few days I have been working on a Powershell script to delete files on a server that are older than X days. Truely harder than I ever thought.
Why you ask, syntax of the code. "Give me an adversary capable of defeating Data" goes the line. This is where my troubles started. I was able to find many different scripts on the internet that claimed to do what I wanted. Logically it was: Delete all the files under this directory (and Sub Directories) that are older than X; leaving newer files.
Now one never wants to practice scripts on live servers, so I copied a number of files over to my workstation and started from there. The really sharp people will know what happened here.. dont worry if you missed the problem, I did too. Moving right along. I used several of the script I read on the net with different degrees of success and failor. It was at this point I desided to write the script on my own, pull from different education sourses and other scripts to accomplish what I needed.
Here is the file script before I knew the problem. First I use alot of variables in my scripts, only because it helps me keep track of things. I am Admin not a programer:
$a = Get-ChildItem C:\Purgetest\test -Recurse
foreach($x in $a)
{
$y = ((Get-Date) - $x.CreationTime).Days
if ($y -gt 7 -and $x.PsISContainer -ne $True)
{$x.Delete()}
}
Real easy.
Now the Break down:
Next we move into the Loop.
Now we are in the loop.
Nifty, sure is. However it didnt work. Every file in my test failed over and over. It didnt deleted the files...... why? Remember Geordi from that episode of Next Gen?? I made the same mistake. The script worked perfectly, just not the outcome I wanted. Syntex Syntext syntex.
Let me explain. If you are looking at the files in detailed mode in Windows, by default you will see a date. By all accounts this is the age of the file.... the last time it was MODIFIED. Seeing the issue now. Nope, ok I shall continue. In my test directory, the files have the same modify date as the original files. However and here comes the source of the mistake, these are copies! So the CREATION date on my workstation would be today and not the same as the original.
Lighting struck. That was the problem. A quickfix on paper, but long time to troubleshoot. To come to that conclusion I moved files I didnt want to my Purgetest directory and noticed they were being deleted. I also tested my code line by line in Powershell. They all worked independently, but not in the loop.
Soooooo, what is the fix. I need to remove the files in my test folder by the last time they were writen too. In Powershell the line goes from this:
On a side note. What helped me greatly on this script in Powershell is PowerGUI Script Editor. Its a app that will walk you through the code of your script in an interface much like Microsoft Visual Editors. I HIGHLY recommend downloading it. Its free to use. http://powergui.org/index.jspa
-Boston Tech Out
For the last few days I have been working on a Powershell script to delete files on a server that are older than X days. Truely harder than I ever thought.
Why you ask, syntax of the code. "Give me an adversary capable of defeating Data" goes the line. This is where my troubles started. I was able to find many different scripts on the internet that claimed to do what I wanted. Logically it was: Delete all the files under this directory (and Sub Directories) that are older than X; leaving newer files.
Now one never wants to practice scripts on live servers, so I copied a number of files over to my workstation and started from there. The really sharp people will know what happened here.. dont worry if you missed the problem, I did too. Moving right along. I used several of the script I read on the net with different degrees of success and failor. It was at this point I desided to write the script on my own, pull from different education sourses and other scripts to accomplish what I needed.
Here is the file script before I knew the problem. First I use alot of variables in my scripts, only because it helps me keep track of things. I am Admin not a programer:
$a = Get-ChildItem C:\Purgetest\test -Recurse
foreach($x in $a)
{
$y = ((Get-Date) - $x.CreationTime).Days
if ($y -gt 7 -and $x.PsISContainer -ne $True)
{$x.Delete()}
}
Real easy.
Now the Break down:
$a = Get-ChildItem C:\Purgetest\test -RecurseVarible "$a" will equal all the files and folders under "C:\Purgetest".
Next we move into the Loop.
foreach($x in $a)For every file (called $x) in directory ($a) do this and the loop starts.
Now we are in the loop.
$y = ((Get-Date) - $x.CreationTime).DaysFor the loop I used a varible ($y) to get a result of how old a file was. Basically the math goes: Give me todays date (GET-DATE) and subtract the date of creation of the file ($x.CreationTime).days. The .DAYS extension tells the script to round the result to the nearest Day, I didnt need hours, minutes or seconds. So now I have an even number of days for how old the file is.
if ($y -gt 7 -and $x.PsISContainer -ne $True)The If statement performs several equations on the file. First it checks if the result I got from $y which is the age of the file is GREATER THAN the number "7" for 7 days. At the same time, it confirms that the "file" I am looking at is actually a file and not a folder. That's what the "AND" statement is doing in the script. The math is: If the item is not a folder and its older than 7 days delete it.
{$x.Delete()}
Nifty, sure is. However it didnt work. Every file in my test failed over and over. It didnt deleted the files...... why? Remember Geordi from that episode of Next Gen?? I made the same mistake. The script worked perfectly, just not the outcome I wanted. Syntex Syntext syntex.
Let me explain. If you are looking at the files in detailed mode in Windows, by default you will see a date. By all accounts this is the age of the file.... the last time it was MODIFIED. Seeing the issue now. Nope, ok I shall continue. In my test directory, the files have the same modify date as the original files. However and here comes the source of the mistake, these are copies! So the CREATION date on my workstation would be today and not the same as the original.
Lighting struck. That was the problem. A quickfix on paper, but long time to troubleshoot. To come to that conclusion I moved files I didnt want to my Purgetest directory and noticed they were being deleted. I also tested my code line by line in Powershell. They all worked independently, but not in the loop.
Soooooo, what is the fix. I need to remove the files in my test folder by the last time they were writen too. In Powershell the line goes from this:
$y = ((Get-Date) - $x.CreationTime).DaysNow it works perfectly on my test server.
to this:
$y = ((Get-Date) - $x.LastWriteTime).Days
On a side note. What helped me greatly on this script in Powershell is PowerGUI Script Editor. Its a app that will walk you through the code of your script in an interface much like Microsoft Visual Editors. I HIGHLY recommend downloading it. Its free to use. http://powergui.org/index.jspa
-Boston Tech Out
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Windows 7 on Netbook
I am currently installing Windows 7 Ult. on my Asus EEE 900 (Celeron Model). I am using an external DVD-Rom drive instead of using a USB install method.
Placing Windows on my netbook is something I have been wanting to do for sometime. I know this will make every Linux geek out there scream, but its my machine and I find Windows easier. I have been planning to put SUSE or Ubuntu on it. Windows 7 RTM seemed perfect timing.
First thing during the install; I reformatted all but the BIOS hard drives located on the machine. I think I am ok deleting those drives, but no turning back now. Worse case, I rebuilt it with the CD that came with the machine.
I am going on vacation for a while (10 days) and I wanted to use Windows 7 instead of the Asus Linux that came with the machine. This will also be a good time to test drive Windows 7 RTM. So far so go, the install is at 20%. Will post updates as to where I am during the install.
Placing Windows on my netbook is something I have been wanting to do for sometime. I know this will make every Linux geek out there scream, but its my machine and I find Windows easier. I have been planning to put SUSE or Ubuntu on it. Windows 7 RTM seemed perfect timing.
First thing during the install; I reformatted all but the BIOS hard drives located on the machine. I think I am ok deleting those drives, but no turning back now. Worse case, I rebuilt it with the CD that came with the machine.
I am going on vacation for a while (10 days) and I wanted to use Windows 7 instead of the Asus Linux that came with the machine. This will also be a good time to test drive Windows 7 RTM. So far so go, the install is at 20%. Will post updates as to where I am during the install.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Update to Compressing Files
Through the awesome energy that pours forth from POWERSHELL, and help from the internet, I was able to get a very simple script to do exactly what I needed to do.
I installed Powershell 1.0 onto the Windows Storage Server 2003 that has all the BAK files sync to it from source. Then my script goes through and creates a ZIP file of every BAK file. The author of the script above also wrote a quick script to delete all the BAK files once I was done.
Here is a run down of the script:
get-childitem -recurse |
where { $_.extension -match "bak" -and -not (test-path ($_.fullname -replace "bak", "zip")) } |
foreach { C:\7zip\7z.exe a ($_.fullname -replace "bak", "zip") $_.fullname }
get-childitem -recurse |
where { $_.extension -match "bak" -and (test-path ($_.fullname -replace "bak", "zip")) } |
foreach { del $_.fullname }
I choose a small font so the you can see the whole line as it would be in the script. Please keep in mind line breaks vs word wrap.
So here is what its doing:
The second part of the script does the same thing as above with two minor changes:
While this script has been modified from its original, this is not my work. Credit goes to http://sradack.blogspot.com
THANKS SRADACK!!!
I installed Powershell 1.0 onto the Windows Storage Server 2003 that has all the BAK files sync to it from source. Then my script goes through and creates a ZIP file of every BAK file. The author of the script above also wrote a quick script to delete all the BAK files once I was done.
Here is a run down of the script:
get-childitem -recurse |
where { $_.extension -match "bak" -and -not (test-path ($_.fullname -replace "bak", "zip")) } |
foreach { C:\7zip\7z.exe a ($_.fullname -replace "bak", "zip") $_.fullname }
get-childitem -recurse |
where { $_.extension -match "bak" -and (test-path ($_.fullname -replace "bak", "zip")) } |
foreach { del $_.fullname }
I choose a small font so the you can see the whole line as it would be in the script. Please keep in mind line breaks vs word wrap.
So here is what its doing:
- Give me all the files in the current directory recursively
- Filter out the files names that end in BAK that dont have a ZIP as well. ei: If File1.bak doesnt have a File1.zip, Grab it.
- Take the BAK file I just grabbed and ZIP it.
The second part of the script does the same thing as above with two minor changes:
- Grab files that DO have the same name as ZIP
- Then delete the Grabbed file.
While this script has been modified from its original, this is not my work. Credit goes to http://sradack.blogspot.com
THANKS SRADACK!!!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Compressing Files Independently in Script
Have an interesting issue today.
We have moved away from a 3rd party backup tool to SQL 2005 native. We have hundreds if not little over thousand DB files that now need to be compressed so we can save time on copying them to DEV.
This has nothing to do with Backup procedures or security. Simply put we dont want the dev department killing the bandwidth and time waiting for DBs to copy over to their environment. We want to automate this as much as possible.
I have been looking at the WinZIP CLI. I need to write a script that will take every individual BAK file and place them into their own zip file (or any compression format, personally I dont care). Its the seperation of every file that I am trying to work around. I am not the greatest Windows Script writer in the world. I try to avoid it of I can. However I need to do this. Possible a VB script can pull each file independently, compress it and them move onto the next. I might use an app that will do the copy and compress at the same time. Trying to do this on the cheap if I can.
Lets see what I come up with.
-Boston Tech Guy
We have moved away from a 3rd party backup tool to SQL 2005 native. We have hundreds if not little over thousand DB files that now need to be compressed so we can save time on copying them to DEV.
This has nothing to do with Backup procedures or security. Simply put we dont want the dev department killing the bandwidth and time waiting for DBs to copy over to their environment. We want to automate this as much as possible.
I have been looking at the WinZIP CLI. I need to write a script that will take every individual BAK file and place them into their own zip file (or any compression format, personally I dont care). Its the seperation of every file that I am trying to work around. I am not the greatest Windows Script writer in the world. I try to avoid it of I can. However I need to do this. Possible a VB script can pull each file independently, compress it and them move onto the next. I might use an app that will do the copy and compress at the same time. Trying to do this on the cheap if I can.
Lets see what I come up with.
-Boston Tech Guy
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Can an Oracle control the Sun?
If you have not already heard, Oracle has placed a huge purchase bid on Sun. Sun accepted the offer after IBM walked. This is a bit of a scare move in my humble opinion. This put a lot of industry standard technology in the hands of a company that always does its own thing.
There are two major areas and one minor that scares me with Oracle in control of Sun.
First: JAVA. Lets face it, hate JAVA or not its everywhere. I mean everywhere; web Sites, applications, phones you name it. How will Oracle change the way JAVA is used, placed, run, updated etc etc. They will change it, make no mistake. Why do I feel this way? Simply look at the last 3 years of Oracle consuming companies. The hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, BEA Systems, J.D. Edwards development teams, list goes on and on. However the big name that has changed since being purchased: Siebel. Remember them? How will JAVA be used in the future? I dont have an answer on that. Could be exciting or scary. However it will be interesting.
This bring me my second fear: MySQL. What will Oracle do with this? I don't think it will good. I fear that Oracle will place some sort half-brained, vice gripping license on it as it has done with all its other products. Folks there is a reason the world uses MySQL over other databases, espically Oracles own. The internet is run on MySQL DBs. If Oracle is smart they will move some of thier products over to MySQL. It would be a massive olive branch for them. Oh wait, this is Oracle I am talking about.
Starting to see a pattern here? Oracle now has two of the most powerful internet technologies under its roof. Oracle is a company that has proven time and time again that it doesn't place nice. With Java and MySQL Oracle can make some major damage in the open source industry. Which points to OpenOffice. I have no clue on what Oracle is going to do with them. Sun was the major contributer to OpenOffice, code and finances. Oracle is not a company that gives away anything. Are we going to see this great little office suite out in the cold? I sure hope not.
Sadly the old saying applies here: "Only time will tell." I wish Sun was smart enough to take IBMs offer. These technologies would have flourished under IBM R&D. Its now in the hands of Oracle. I heard a joke the other day on this that the biggest winner out of all of this would be Microsoft. I would agree and I am not laughing.
-Boston Tech Guy
There are two major areas and one minor that scares me with Oracle in control of Sun.
First: JAVA. Lets face it, hate JAVA or not its everywhere. I mean everywhere; web Sites, applications, phones you name it. How will Oracle change the way JAVA is used, placed, run, updated etc etc. They will change it, make no mistake. Why do I feel this way? Simply look at the last 3 years of Oracle consuming companies. The hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, BEA Systems, J.D. Edwards development teams, list goes on and on. However the big name that has changed since being purchased: Siebel. Remember them? How will JAVA be used in the future? I dont have an answer on that. Could be exciting or scary. However it will be interesting.
This bring me my second fear: MySQL. What will Oracle do with this? I don't think it will good. I fear that Oracle will place some sort half-brained, vice gripping license on it as it has done with all its other products. Folks there is a reason the world uses MySQL over other databases, espically Oracles own. The internet is run on MySQL DBs. If Oracle is smart they will move some of thier products over to MySQL. It would be a massive olive branch for them. Oh wait, this is Oracle I am talking about.
Starting to see a pattern here? Oracle now has two of the most powerful internet technologies under its roof. Oracle is a company that has proven time and time again that it doesn't place nice. With Java and MySQL Oracle can make some major damage in the open source industry. Which points to OpenOffice. I have no clue on what Oracle is going to do with them. Sun was the major contributer to OpenOffice, code and finances. Oracle is not a company that gives away anything. Are we going to see this great little office suite out in the cold? I sure hope not.
Sadly the old saying applies here: "Only time will tell." I wish Sun was smart enough to take IBMs offer. These technologies would have flourished under IBM R&D. Its now in the hands of Oracle. I heard a joke the other day on this that the biggest winner out of all of this would be Microsoft. I would agree and I am not laughing.
-Boston Tech Guy
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Windows 2008 Fail Over Cluster Virtual Issues
I am still having issues getting the VM of Window 2008 Fail Over Cluster to work. The iSCSI I am using never passes the config tests. Worse the cluster launches which is weirder. I am still goving over docs on how to use the iSCSI in a Virtual format.
I think I am going to just bite the bullet and use this on a lab machine with two old servers. I had originally set those for OpsMgr 07.
We shall see.
-Boston Tech Guy
I think I am going to just bite the bullet and use this on a lab machine with two old servers. I had originally set those for OpsMgr 07.
We shall see.
-Boston Tech Guy
Sunday, March 29, 2009
If I have a million dollars... I would?
Geeks reading this will know the answer right away? If you don't, TURN IN YOUR COMPUTER! For shame.
While I don't have a million dollars, the answer for me is the same. I have been on vacation for the last few days and I did... Loved every minute of it.
I have been designing a home theater setup in my home. Along with adding it to my home network, its all one project to wire the house in a way to stream audio everywhere. One of the reasons I am looking for a NAS at home. I have been planning it out mostly (at night.. MOVIE?). I have been uncertain to post my findings here at on my other blog that is more personal. However a lot of technology will be involved with my home project. I really want to come up with a cool name for it.
Well I will mention some of the progress here and in other places. Hopefully you will enjoy the ride.
-Boston Tech Guy
While I don't have a million dollars, the answer for me is the same. I have been on vacation for the last few days and I did... Loved every minute of it.
I have been designing a home theater setup in my home. Along with adding it to my home network, its all one project to wire the house in a way to stream audio everywhere. One of the reasons I am looking for a NAS at home. I have been planning it out mostly (at night.. MOVIE?). I have been uncertain to post my findings here at on my other blog that is more personal. However a lot of technology will be involved with my home project. I really want to come up with a cool name for it.
Well I will mention some of the progress here and in other places. Hopefully you will enjoy the ride.
-Boston Tech Guy
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Never Enough Space
I am looking for a home solution for a NAS. I have simply come to the conclusion that I need one for all the music and photos I have and keep acquiring. I have been consolidating all my music for several years now on MP3. I know have moved onto my wifes music collection and its getting fairly large and I am getting tired of having it on either my external hard drive or pc. I am centralizing my whole house on a larger project that I wont go into right now.
I cant find a descent home NAS solution. Its driving me nuts. The solution I want is an external hard drive with Network Options. This shouldn't be that hard, and I shouldn't have to pay several hundred dollars for it.
My colleagues are laughing at me as I should build a solution out of an old pc. But thats the problem and the point. I dont want nor need a whole pc running just to act as storage.
I shall keep going looking for that right solution for me.
-Boston Tech Guy
I cant find a descent home NAS solution. Its driving me nuts. The solution I want is an external hard drive with Network Options. This shouldn't be that hard, and I shouldn't have to pay several hundred dollars for it.
My colleagues are laughing at me as I should build a solution out of an old pc. But thats the problem and the point. I dont want nor need a whole pc running just to act as storage.
I shall keep going looking for that right solution for me.
-Boston Tech Guy
Monday, March 9, 2009
Windows 2008 iSCSI Initiator
Learned something new today in creating a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster. The iSCSI Initiator is part of the Windows 2008 install.
Start-> Administrative Tools->iSCSI Initiator
Good to know for the future. Still learning Windows 2008 and hey why not learn while building a cluster ;-)
-Boston Tech Guy
Start-> Administrative Tools->iSCSI Initiator
Good to know for the future. Still learning Windows 2008 and hey why not learn while building a cluster ;-)
-Boston Tech Guy
Disable IE8 in Windows 7
Usually I like to start my blogs with a quote or a play on words. Been too busy to come up with one for this.
According to this news article in Network World and confirmed by this article on Microsoft Blog, you can disable Windows Features in Windows 7. The big one of course being Internet Explorer.
I find this an incredible push for Microsoft. I like the idea, don't remove the software but have the option to disable it. I have been a Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox almost my entire "webbing" history however I do agree that Microsoft should not be forced to remove it from the OS. Apple is not being forced to remove Safari. I state that as proof of the other side, not to start Apple/Microsoft war.
Windows 7 is looking to be interesting. I am still using XP and will keep it as long as I can.
-Boston Tech Guy
According to this news article in Network World and confirmed by this article on Microsoft Blog, you can disable Windows Features in Windows 7. The big one of course being Internet Explorer.
I find this an incredible push for Microsoft. I like the idea, don't remove the software but have the option to disable it. I have been a Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox almost my entire "webbing" history however I do agree that Microsoft should not be forced to remove it from the OS. Apple is not being forced to remove Safari. I state that as proof of the other side, not to start Apple/Microsoft war.
Windows 7 is looking to be interesting. I am still using XP and will keep it as long as I can.
-Boston Tech Guy
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Windows Core
Got the chance last week to play with Windows Core. Very interesting. I like the idea behind it. Not a lot of resources out there on it.. yet. A few more people using it and I think it will be the way to go for a lot of system admins.
It is sad how much Windows Admins use the gui. Linux Admins chuckling in the background.. yes we know. I have always considered myself open to many different platforms. I always try to keep up with command line use. With windows it was helpful for admin cheats. Power Shell is really cool, but Windows Core takes it to the level of "WOW I still use the gui alot more than I thought."
Side note: Admins out there, learn Power Shell! You will be glad you did.
I am trying to learn Core for Clustering. See where it can take me.
-Boston Tech Guy
It is sad how much Windows Admins use the gui. Linux Admins chuckling in the background.. yes we know. I have always considered myself open to many different platforms. I always try to keep up with command line use. With windows it was helpful for admin cheats. Power Shell is really cool, but Windows Core takes it to the level of "WOW I still use the gui alot more than I thought."
Side note: Admins out there, learn Power Shell! You will be glad you did.
I am trying to learn Core for Clustering. See where it can take me.
-Boston Tech Guy
Time heals all wounds
Unless you bleeding like a stuck pig.
We have a cluster that is going down for the count. Last week my company ran into an issue where the cluster would stop functioning for about one minute. Here is the really weird part, the node would not fail over.
What we saw was a classic windows "queue" problem. The Windows Server 2003 on Node1 would just stop for about 1 minute. Strangest thing I have ever seen. I was on the phone for 7 hours with Microsoft Partners Support and they were just as confused.
I wanted to point it out here. I will add to this posting later with details of whats going on.
-Boston Tech Guy
We have a cluster that is going down for the count. Last week my company ran into an issue where the cluster would stop functioning for about one minute. Here is the really weird part, the node would not fail over.
What we saw was a classic windows "queue" problem. The Windows Server 2003 on Node1 would just stop for about 1 minute. Strangest thing I have ever seen. I was on the phone for 7 hours with Microsoft Partners Support and they were just as confused.
I wanted to point it out here. I will add to this posting later with details of whats going on.
-Boston Tech Guy
Monday, February 23, 2009
To begin, take the first step
Which in our world is a lab.
Having gone over huge amounts of data yesterday, I get to expense almost 6 hours to research yesterday.
Moving right along, if you have not gone out to the Microsoft home page for System Center Operations Manager please do so. You will find tons of data on this site. Its an excellent starting point.
To begin lets go over the issues in production environment that started this little adventure. My company has a production environment is a web hosted app. Obviously we have a front end and a db back end with a few things tossed in here and there. Its always evolving depending on the clients needs. Currently we don't have a begining to end monitor solution. We have lots of little ones that overlap here and there. We also are having issues.
This project that I am working on started from a can it do a job to WOW it can do everything we need.
First STEP: LAB.
What I am starting out to do is:
So far I have completed the OU and users. As it goes with all IT positions we had a little fire today and I have been working on it to put it out.
Shall be back with more details.
-Boston Tech Guy
Having gone over huge amounts of data yesterday, I get to expense almost 6 hours to research yesterday.
Moving right along, if you have not gone out to the Microsoft home page for System Center Operations Manager please do so. You will find tons of data on this site. Its an excellent starting point.
To begin lets go over the issues in production environment that started this little adventure. My company has a production environment is a web hosted app. Obviously we have a front end and a db back end with a few things tossed in here and there. Its always evolving depending on the clients needs. Currently we don't have a begining to end monitor solution. We have lots of little ones that overlap here and there. We also are having issues.
This project that I am working on started from a can it do a job to WOW it can do everything we need.
First STEP: LAB.
What I am starting out to do is:
- Create a new OU with the users that are needed to do the work of OpsMgr. Slight word of advice, when create a new user group for OpsMgr I suggest you add the Domain Admins as well. Unlink MOM 2005, OpsMgr 2007 wont automatically allow for Domain Admins to have Admin access to the system. Clearly the choice is up to you.
- Install the Operations DB and RMS on the same box
- Install the Gateway Server in the domain that is not trusted which has our hosting servers.
So far I have completed the OU and users. As it goes with all IT positions we had a little fire today and I have been working on it to put it out.
Shall be back with more details.
-Boston Tech Guy
Microsoft System Operations Manager 2007
Right now I am looking into Microsoft System Operation Manager 2007.
There is so much information that is related to this platform that I needed a place to dump my thoughts. Also there is NOT a lot of places for people to swap info on it, so I wanted to add one.
I know the really technical people involved in the DEV of the product have many sites. I wanted to start one that was used by Admins that didn't work for Microsoft. Lets travel with it and see where it goes.
Thanks,
Boston Tech Guy
There is so much information that is related to this platform that I needed a place to dump my thoughts. Also there is NOT a lot of places for people to swap info on it, so I wanted to add one.
I know the really technical people involved in the DEV of the product have many sites. I wanted to start one that was used by Admins that didn't work for Microsoft. Lets travel with it and see where it goes.
Thanks,
Boston Tech Guy
Welcome to my tech blog
I am creating this blog in response to, well myself. See i have other blogs which are personal thoughts and ramblings. I wanted a place to talk strictly tech (if possible).
I work for a company in the Boston, MA area that does a lot of work. I have a lot of projects here and sometimes need to share the issues. Time to see where this can all take us.
Thanks in advance
Boston Tech Guy
I work for a company in the Boston, MA area that does a lot of work. I have a lot of projects here and sometimes need to share the issues. Time to see where this can all take us.
Thanks in advance
Boston Tech Guy
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