Nov 19, 2014 Posted by newlife007

Windows Server 2012 R2 SNMP Tools install

Recently ran into an issue on Windows Server 2012 R2 systems and came across some systems that had SNMP installed but the Security, Agent, and Traps tabs were missing.  This is due to the facet that Microsoft has deprecated SNMP in Server 2012. (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831568.aspx) NOTE: This is in addition to the SNMP Services feature. If you haven’t already installed the SNMP... read more

Oct 7, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Run IE 8 Alongside IE 10 on Windows 7 in VirtualBox

Sometimes you have to have an older version of Internet Explorer for testing or for an application that only works with a specific version.  Microsoft offers this with images for specific Virtualization programs including Virtual PC, VMWare and VirtualBox at https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads. Download the following packages using the following URL’s. You can use wget to do... read more

Sep 9, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How to Fix General Protection Fault in module WIN87EM.DLL while running Windows 7 in VMWare

Recently ran into an issue with a Windows 7 32-bit VM running in VMware Fusion on Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) when running a Point of Sale application would receive a Application has caused a general protection fault in module WIN87EM.DLL. Starting doing some digging and found this thread discussing the issue at... read more

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

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