A small sample of my work and shared notes
The WINSXS folder on Windows 2008 and Windows 7 tends to get a little out of hand. While hard drives are larger than they used to be, it doesn’t mean you want to have 30GB or so of data in Continue reading Cleaning out a Windows 7 or 2008 WINSXS Folder
Lets say you have a couple hundred servers to look over and after a “patch Tuesday” you know your WSUS server has already sent out the updates and each computer has installed it. Now you need to know who has Continue reading How to Find Windows Computers or Servers With a Reboot Pending
*Note* Patches can be found by going to the Patch Portal. http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal Recently after upgrading from VMWare 4.1 to VMWare ESXi 5.5 I ran into an issue with a Windows 2008 VPN server getting the following error message. PPTP VPN Continue reading How to Patch VMWare ESXi 5.5 from Command Line
Computers and servers don’t work too well with full drives. In fact, it’s a pretty good way to bring down our Postfix email server. Here is a relatively simple script to email us when we get to 20% drive Continue reading Setting up a Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS Disk Usage Email Alert
I keep running into an issue where VMTools will display a status of “not running” after rebooting some machines too fast, say after a Windows Update or just because they feel like it. One fix is to simply reboot Continue reading Restart VMware Tools on Window’s Virtual Machines