Tag: Windows

Windows File System Redirector with Chef Client/Ruby

November 5, 2015

I was recently using the windows_zipfile resource to unzip content to the path C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules as part of a recipe in a Chef cookbook which would complete successfully, but on observation would unzip the contents to C:\Windows\SysWow64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules and cause an error when further resources references this source. The cause of this behaviour is due to the the chef-client … More Windows File System Redirector with Chef Client/Ruby

Enable iOS devices to print to Windows Print Server using AirPrint

November 14, 2013

I was recently looking into having iOS devices print to Windows Print Server using the AirPrint feature, in order to do so I found a number of articles to install third party tools to achieve this. Firstly, I needed to install the Bonjour Print Services from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL999 and if required enable inbound connections on UDP service … More Enable iOS devices to print to Windows Print Server using AirPrint

Checking Free Disk Space on NTFS Volume Mount Points in Nagios

September 12, 2013

As part of creating external scripts within Nagios I was required to create a script which would monitor NTFS volume mount points which is not available in the default monitoring wizard. As the script was to be run against a number of different volume mount points, I did not want to create multiple scripts as … More Checking Free Disk Space on NTFS Volume Mount Points in Nagios

New paravirtual driver for Amazon EC2 instances

March 27, 2013

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