This runbook is inspired from Anders’ manager runbook he includes in his Password Reset runbook. Found here http://contoso.se/blog/?p=3085. Unfortunately in the environment I implemented this in, almost none of our managers actually had “manager” in their title, so his runbook would not work in its current configuration. In fact there was no unified keyword for …
Are you using Hyper-V 2012? If yes then you you’ll likely want VEEAM Hyper-V Management Pack, to monitor your Hyper-V environment. Otherwise, you’re missing out.Disclaimer: I am just a user of the management pack, I am not affiliated with VEEAM in anyway and received nothing for writing about them, I just really like the management …
I wanted to build a System Center playground for me to play in and be able to break things and then of course fix them. What better way than a home lab. Why Hyper-V? Well, because that is what the majority of my work infrastructure is on. And because of its integration into System Center. …
If you are running Citrix or Microsoft RDS you know that occasionally, or sometimes frequently, user sessions get stuck and need an admin to kick them off. Or you have a ton of “disconnected” users taking up licenses preventing new sessions from starting, this generally requires an admin to login to the Citrix console, whether …
If you use both Orchestrator and Microsoft Lync, you have probably wished there was some sort of integration pack for Lync. This would be fantastic, however, since it does not exist currently, I have a great solution. Orchestrator Run .Net Activity and PowerShell remoting. I’m sure I’m not the first to figure this out, as …
If you have been a systems administrator for any amount of time, you have probably been asked “hey can I get a list of the users in group or distribution list X?” Sure thing you say, and then go run some PowerShell or have some sort of tool that will export that data or the …
I was once asked by a coworker if I had an automation filter in my head that I ran my emails through, after I proposed a solution in Orchestrator to a problem we had. After thinking about it, I’m pretty sure I do!Anyway, we were recently tasked with documenting all our service accounts on all …