Problem:

After my weekend backups I was greeted this morning with a virtual guest that would not power on, instead I was getting the below error;

An on the summary tab for the virtual server I had a message informing me the "Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed"

While setting up Office 365 I ran into an issue with the Active Directory Synchronization tool, at the configuration stage I was presented with the error "Set-CoexistenceConfiguration was unable to modify the source properties. See the event logs for more detailed information"

When looking in the Application event log there was a few messages about a MSQL "could not be found in the forest"

Problem:

Two folders on a file server I administer had been created with a space at the end of the folder name.

If I tried to delete these folders I got the message "Could not find the item"

If I tried to view the security I got the message "The requested security information is either unavailable or can't be displayed"

From time to time the need arises to change a Windows product key, the below uses slmgr.vbs to change the Windows product key and activates Windows;

- Open an Administrative Command Prompt

- Enter the command slmgr.vbs /ipk <product key>

- Enter the command slmgr.vbs /ato

If you have a need to find the user accounts present on a linux computer via te shell the below command should help;

cat /etc/passwd | grep "/home" | cut -d: -f1

This will list all users on the computer that have a home directory, you could also run cat /etc/passwd to get more inforation and all kinds of system accounts

To find the version of SUSE or openSUSE and the service pack / patch level installed via the shell run the command;

cat /etc/SuSE-release

You should get an output like the below;

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 3
 

Problem

Clients were unable to download updates from our internal WSUS server, the download failed with error 80244019 however the same clients could download the updates fine directly from Microsoft.

Details

Recently I had a need for a tool that would easily allow me or our Service Desk to monitor the health of our XenApp farm, there are obviously commercial products for this but I just needed something simple and free so I created this PowerShell script.

I have been running this on XenApp 6.5.

The script shows,

 - The total number of users logged onto the farm.

As part of a recent Microsoft SQL Server migration project I had a need to disabled and enable all of the Agent Jobs as various points, the below scripts did the job. This scripts have been tested on SQL 2005 to 2012

Disable All Jobs

USE MSDB;
GO
UPDATE MSDB.dbo.sysjobs
SET Enabled = 0
WHERE Enabled = 1;
GO

Enable All Jobs

USE MSDB;
GO
UPDATE MSDB.dbo.sysjobs
SET Enabled = 1
WHERE Enabled = 0;
GO

Problem:

I recently had the need to deploy IBM Client Access 6.1 on a Citrix XenApp 6.5 farm, everything was fine for the first month or so and then users started getting the error "PC5250 License Error CWB0999 Unexpected error: unexpected return code 9052 274d"