So this project started out as many projects at work do. The boss comes to you and says, “hey I have this new email use policy written up, now we need to implement the technology to meet it”. I’ll leave out many of the company specific details, but let’s say that new policy has the …
Here is a script written in PowerShell for VMware’s PowerCLI module. Basically I needed a quick and dirty backup solution to get some important VMs stored on a different datastore regularly. It also goes back and cleans up old clones. It isn’t perfect. I’d like to write some more safe guards to check the date …
Hello, I haven’t posted for quite some time with work and life getting a little nuts, but I just finished a fun project that I thought I should share while still fresh. I manage about 30 branch office sites with SonicWall firewalls and we do not run GMS for a variety of reasons. As a …
I am finally getting around to digging into our datacenter environment and looking at capacity planning.. I wanted to know how many “logical” processors were in the environment compared to how many virtual CPUs I have allocated. I found the base of this script just searching around the internet and modified the math to multiply …
Hello, I thought I would share this experience as it took me a bit by surprise and I ended up having to call Microsoft support. I am not stranger to P2V migrations or restoring servers from backup, but this one had me just stumped. Basically I was in the position of having to restore a …
Just an FYI to all.. Yesterday I successfully installed Windows 10 from a USB stick and it accepted the OEM Winodws 7 Home key (attached to DELL case) as well as activated. This free offer was supposed to end in July 2016, but I am thinking now that it may have just been a gimic …
I’ve been doing quite a bit of research lately regarding the practicality of implementing IPv6 into production networks and I’ve got to say that at this point there are still some pretty big questions to be answered. I’ve reached out to a few other blogs and vendors and have yet to really get a straight …
Hello, writing a quick post based on my recent experience implementing a pair of Nexus 3548 switches. To this point I’ve only had experience with Catalyst switches and while the Nexus OS functions similarly, there were quite a few differences that made going back and forth between the two platforms a little challenging. First, just …
Have you ever wished you could export all of the drivers from one Windows system to file, then wipe the OS and just “import” them? Well, this tool does just that! Enjoy, I plan to leave the download directly on my site. Click here to download directly from the TylerCrew Blog. Edit 20160829: This tool …
I had the opportunity last week to work with some Gigabit POE Cisco 2960 switches, an Avaya IP office VoIP system, and a layer 2 based Ethernet recording system. The recording system basically had two dedicated Ethernet ports designed to receive mirrored traffic from the VoIP VLAN. Tap interfaces is what I took to calling …