I found this really cool open source software that I’m currently implementing for a customer remotely. It’s called HVBackup and is of the time of writing in Beta v1. http://hypervbackup.codeplex.com/ Description from their website: The main goal of this project is to provide a very easy and powerful free tool to backup and restore Hyper-V…
Category: Windows
Windows Server 2012 as a Workstation
This week I received my new HP EliteBook Workstation 8560w packed with Intel® Core™ i7-2860QM, 24 GB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro 2000M, 750GB HDD and other goodies. Big thanks to my friend over on Xeptor for giving me a good deal! The first thing I did was to install the newly released RTM of Windows Server…
Log Rotation Cleaner and Archiver Script (LRCAS)
At work I was tasked with writing a script that would clean up and archive logs from an application that didn’t have any decent log rotation built-in. The application would however rotate the logs when the application’s service was restarted and then rename the old log with an incremental number suffix. So we added a…
RoboCopy PowerShell Script
I wrote a script that utilizes RoboCopy to mirror directories. It can easily be changed to do file level backups by changing some configurable parameters within the script. Read RoboCopys documentation to understand the use of switches. Whats interesting about this script is that it writes events/logs to EventLog if executed with administrative privileges, otherwise…
Unrar finished torrents (uTorrent) and delete archives (rar)
I couldn’t find any unpacker that would extract and delete archives for a torrent after a certain period of time or after a certain seed ratio had been reached. I’ve noticed quite alot of people complain about this on, for example, uTorrent’s official forums. So I wrote this script that will wait for a set…
Exchange 2003 to 2010 Migration
Well I had started to write a guide for this already, but just when I was to create this entry I came across a guide that’s already really good. So I’m just going to link to Pete Long’s blog where I found it: http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000234.htm Share on Facebook
Move files in folders and subfolders older than one year
A colleague asked me if I could write a script that would move files within a folder or its subfolders that were older than one year into a new location but still keep the directory structure. I figured it would be quite a challenge so I decided to do it for him; kind as I…
THE ultimate loginscript
I was given the task to rewrite the login script for a company, they had 4 sites and about 20 login scripts for various purposes. So I wrote a general one which took care of all the general stuff. You may look at my earlier post about an inventory script, because this script will use…
Exchange 2010. Unable to access console or shell.
You may get this message when you open up Exchange Management Console (EMC) for Exchange 2010. “Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WinRM client received an HTTP server error status (500), but the remote service did not Include any other information about the cause of the failure. It was…
Backup VMs in a Hyper-V Cluster (Core-version)
As far as I know, after some googling I couldn’t find any program that could take backups of Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V Core when the .VHD files were located on a Cluster Shared Storage. If you read my previous post you can probably understand you aren’t able to install any advanced programs in the…