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Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Last night I booked the VCAP-DCA 5.50 exam - scheduled for May 4th, 2015 - so about one month to prepare. I have been procrastinating, being somewhat intimidated by that exam. A fellow Vmware enthusiast offered to partner up for the studies, sharing progress and questions so I took him up ...
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2014
I got rid of a rack full of equipment (2 ESXi rackmount servers, switches, routers, ASA Firewall, etc...) and replaced everything with a single ESXi server that will run nested environments (for DCA). I read through a few blogs while researching this and from what I can tell, Supermicro motherboards ...
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Friday, January 17th, 2014
Whether it's for disaster recovery, maintenance or for your home lab, it's nice to be able to start-up machines in a specific order without having to do it manually. You can do it with vApps, but there are operational drawbacks in doing so, from those pesky warnings when you shutdown/startup ...
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Monday, December 30th, 2013
Here are the SQL scripts and the VBS.
EnableMicrosoftUpdate.vbs
Set ServiceManager = CreateObject("Microsoft.Update.ServiceManager")
ServiceManager.ClientApplicationID = "My App"
'add the Microsoft Update Service by GUID
Set NewUpdateService = ServiceManager.AddService2("7971f918-a847-4430-9279-4a52d1efe18d",7,"")
This is the SQL Configuration File
SQL2012-ConfigurationFile.ini
[OPTIONS]
IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS="True"
SAPWD="Welcome!"
ACTION="Install"
ENU="True"
QUIET="False"
QUIETSIMPLE="True"
UpdateEnabled="True"
FEATURES=SQLENGINE,SSMS,ADV_SSMS
UpdateSource="MU"
HELP="False"
INDICATEPROGRESS="False"
X86="False"
INSTALLSHAREDDIR="D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server"
INSTALLSHAREDWOWDIR="D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server"
INSTANCENAME="MSSQLSERVER"
INSTANCEID="MSSQLSERVER"
SQMREPORTING="False"
ERRORREPORTING="False"
INSTANCEDIR="E:\SQLInst"
AGTSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM"
AGTSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Automatic"
COMMFABRICPORT="0"
COMMFABRICNETWORKLEVEL="0"
COMMFABRICENCRYPTION="0"
MATRIXCMBRICKCOMMPORT="0"
SQLSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Automatic"
FILESTREAMLEVEL="0"
ENABLERANU="False"
SQLCOLLATION="SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS"
SQLSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM"
SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="BUILTIN\Administrators"
SECURITYMODE="SQL"
SQLBACKUPDIR="F:\SQLBack"
SQLUSERDBDIR="E:\SQLData"
SQLTEMPDBDIR="E:\SQLTemp"
ADDCURRENTUSERASSQLADMIN="False"
TCPENABLED="1"
NPENABLED="0"
BROWSERSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Disabled"
And last, the SQL script to set the memory sizes (didn't ...
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Monday, December 30th, 2013
Well, as promised here is the script to setup all the pre-reqs for SCCM 2012 R2.
To run this, you need to copy the files in the D: drive.
You need:
An SQL configuration file (SQL2012-ConfigurationFile.ini)
An SQL script to set the memory sizes (SetSQLMemory.sql)
A VBS script to enable the Windows Update feature (EnableMicrosoftUpdate.vbs)
WUInstall ...
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Friday, December 27th, 2013
I also got involved with pretty much every aspect of the new environment (it's a consolidation project), with Active Directory, SQL Server, SCCM 2012, etc...
Having last worked with SMS 2003 R2, I decided to start playing with SCCM 2012. Foundations are the same as SMS so far, so nothing too ...
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Friday, December 27th, 2013
I have lost a little of my drive to study in the past year, I guess I gave too much the year before with the CCNP, CCNA Security, and the MCSE 2012 :) Soooo... I'm trying to get back into it a bit.
I have moved to a new mandate, doing ...
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Thursday, August 1st, 2013
It's been a while since my last update! My current mandate is almost over, what started as a 3 week replacement for a sysadmin lasted almost 2 years overhauling the entire infrastructure, going from a room full of standalone physical servers on 100mbps network with cabling issues, to a modern ...
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