Jul 16, 2015 Posted by newlife007

No Teaming Software for HP DL360 Gen 9 Servers Issue

Recently received new hardware for installing Windows 2008 R2 on HP Proliant DL360 Gen 9 servers. In the past there has been HP Network software to allow for teaming, but with the new Gen 9 hardware this is  not the case. Luckily the 331T network cards use the Broadcom chipset and was able to download and use Broadcom Control Suite (BASC) First download Broadcom Control Suite from... read more

Jul 16, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Retrieve Windows AD Group Members using PowerShell

Introduction As part of daily administration we are constantly being asked by Auditors and managers for a list of the individuals in groups. In the past and current we can still use the venerable net commands to get the access. With PowerShell we can it quickly and in a format easier than before. In this post we will over how to get the information and export it into other formats. To use the... read more

May 25, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Add a Banner or Legal Notification Display to Windows 2003 – 2012

So you want to add a Legal notification or banner notification on your Windows servers. There is a very easy way to accomplish this by making a simple change of two keys in the registry. This process works on Windows 2003 – 2012. Select Start > Run > then type “regedit” and press the Enter key. Expand the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft >... read more

Feb 18, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Clearing and Backing Up Event Logs on Windows 2003 from the command line

Lets face it, we are always battling for disk space on our servers and as mush as we hate the space the the Windows event logs use we need them, but from a command line we can back them up and then clear them. We are able to do this using wmic commands and the sub command nteventlog. There are two methods available with what we are trying to accomplish, they are: BackupEventlog ClearEventlog Backup event... read more

Nov 21, 2014 Posted by newlife007

Finding WWN’s on Windows Server 2012 Using PowerShell

With a single command you can retrieve WWN’s on Windows Server 2012 R2 using PowerShell. Open the PowerShell command and type: Get-WmiObject -class MSFC_FCAdapterHBAAttributes -namespace “root\WMI” | ForEach-Object {(($_.NodeWWN) | ForEach-Object {“{0:x}” -f $_}) -join “:”} And that is all there is to it. Simple and fast using PowerShell. Update: I have been been... read more