I was recently looking at reporting the status of scheduled tasks to Nagios, where the requirements were as follows: Return scheduled tasks that have run successfully in the previous day with status ‘OK’ Return scheduled tasks that have not run succesfully or tasks where the last run time was before the previous day with the … More Reporting Scheduled Task status in Nagios
On attempting to install updates the client was failing with the error code 66A, this is due to corrupted install files when attempting to update the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile. In order to resolve this and install updates successfully perform the following: 1) Browse to Start > Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall … More Windows Update fails with error 66A
So Amazon have announced a release of a new Amazon Machine Image for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, 2008 and 2008 R2 which now includes a new pararitualized driver, which according to Amazon provides the following benefits: Launch any Microsoft Windows Server AMI (2003 R2 to 2012, 64 bit) on any instance type Increase your Microsoft … More New paravirtual driver for Amazon EC2 instances
I was recently was required to obtain a list of services and scheduled tasks which were running under a particular user account. I was able to run the Get-WmiObject cmdlet in a loop on a number of servers specified in a variable and capture the SystemName, DisplayName and StartName where the StartName matched my filter, as below: … More Get service and scheduled task service account information
Well I have been a bit lazy recently in terms of my certification and in particular refreshing my MCSA (2003). So, I have decided to make a start, which will ultimately be disrupted by my summer holidays (or should I say honeymoon!). First up I am going to prepare for the 70-640: Windows Server 2008 … More Enabling Active Directory Recycle Bin on Windows 2008 R2
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