Aug 26, 2014 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving Disk Information and Freespace Using PowerShell 2

It is always nice to be able to retrieve disk information for the systems. Alot of scripts are used to gather the information so Administrators can keep ahead of the demand for space. With PowerShell 2 it is simple to retrieve the information in a single line using the win32_volume WMI class call. Now in this example I am only retrieving four items and rounding the values to two decimal places. There are... read more

Aug 6, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Install SCOM 2012 R2 Agent on Solaris 10 x86

Recently our company has been deploying Microsoft SCOM 2012 R2 in our environment. Installation on Solaris 10 x86 proved to be an issue. This post Create the service account and group (opsmgrsvc is our service account) id and set the password. You can use an auto generated UID, For our purposes we choose 21053. # groupadd -g 21053 opsmgrsvc # useradd -u 21053 -g opsmgrsvc -c “SCOM Service... read more

Aug 3, 2014 Posted by newlife007

Enable Hidden ~/Library folder in Lion

Starting with Lion Apple has decided to hide ~/Library file, the reason makes sense as to prevent accidental deletion of configuration files and settings. But for hackers and tweakers this is a nuisance. The Library folder contains many of the resources that installed applications need to use, including application preference files, application support files, plug-in folders, and new with Lion, the plists... read more

Jul 25, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Update Dell Firmware on Fedora 20

After a recent build on a Dell Laptop to Fedora 20 I found the need to update the BIOS on the laptop. With Windows this is a simple solution of downloading and installing. With Linux it is a bit more to do. First we must install firmware-addon-dell. $ sudo yum -y install firmware-addon-dell Next we need to get the SystemID for the system to be able to download the correct update. $ sudo... read more

Jul 9, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How to install the FTP service on Windows Server 2008 R2

Introduction With Windows 2008 R2 Microsoft changed how to install and configure FTP. Here are the steps needed to get it installed and configured. Installation of FTP On the Start menu, click Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager. In the Server Manager Pane, in the Roles Summary section, click Web Server (IIS). In the Web Server (IIS) section, click Add Role Services. Under Role services,... read more