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		<title>OpsMgr 2007 &#8211; Author Privileges</title>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2010/01/04/opsmgr-2007-author-privileges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblSHOT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you run into setting up permissions/privileges for your administrators within the scom console. This can be quite confusion. You often run into cryptic areas where certain functions don&#8217;t react as they should and you run into the error &#8220;The user domain\user does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation&#8221;.
Some important information here:
Reset Health [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you run into setting up permissions/privileges for your administrators within the scom console. This can be quite confusion. You often run into cryptic areas where certain functions don&#8217;t react as they should and you run into the error &#8220;The user domain\user does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation&#8221;.</p>
<p>Some important information here:</p>
<p><span id="more-197"></span><strong>Reset Health Permission</strong></p>
<p>Goto your user role area for your author group. The &#8220;tasks&#8221; tab is where you need to add &#8220;Flush Health Service State and Cache&#8221; task.</p>
<p><strong>Allow viewing the &#8216;overrides&#8217; under &#8216;authoring&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>You need to allow access to all &#8220;views&#8221;. You can still lock down which machines they view by the &#8220;group scope&#8221;, and &#8220;author scope&#8221; locks down which targets (or rules/monitors/etc) they can modify).</p>
<p>*I haven&#8217;t found a way to lock down the views yet. If you know, please let me know!</p>
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		<title>NetApp OnTap 8.0rc2 Filerview</title>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2010/01/03/netapp-ontap-8-0rc2-filerview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblSHOT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at filerview. Not much different here except the branding. I&#8217;ll post some other screenies as I go along and explore the new version.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Take a look at filerview. Not much different here except the branding. I&#8217;ll post some other screenies as I go along and explore the new version.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/filerview-8.0rc2.jpg"><img src="http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/filerview-8.0rc2-300x163.jpg" alt="filerview-8.0rc2" title="filerview-8.0rc2" width="300" height="163" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-193" /></a></p>
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		<title>Remotely reboot a server</title>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/10/26/remotely-reboot-a-server/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always a good tidbit of information to keep around:
To perform a remote shutdown:
1. Open Computer Management (Local)
2. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then click Connect to another computer.
3. In the Select Computer dialog box, click Another computer, type the name of the computer that you want to restart or shut down, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Always a good tidbit of information to keep around:</p>
<p><strong>To perform a remote shutdown:</strong><br />
1. Open Computer Management (Local)<br />
2. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then click Connect to another computer.<br />
3. In the Select Computer dialog box, click Another computer, type the name of the computer that you want to restart or shut down, and then click OK. You can also click Browse to search for the name of the computer.<br />
4. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Remote computer name), and then click Properties.<br />
5. On the Advanced tab, click Startup and Recovery.<br />
6. Click Shut Down to open the Shut Down dialog box.<br />
7. Under Action, select the actions you want to perform on the computer to which you are connected.<br />
8. Under Force Apps Closed, select the circumstances under which you want to force applications to close when you shut down or restart the computer, and then click OK.</p>
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		<title>Greyed out Domain Controllers</title>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/09/30/greyed-out-domain-controllers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblSHOT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a while searching around for this gem. Basically the domain controllers don&#8217;t trust the local system account so you have to run the HSLockdown.exe tool. I found this blog article that explains:
http://scug.be/blogs/scom/archive/2008/08/18/opsmgr-agent-greyed-out-on-domain-controller.aspx
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I spent a while searching around for this gem. Basically the domain controllers don&#8217;t trust the local system account so you have to run the HSLockdown.exe tool. I found this blog article that explains:</p>
<p>http://scug.be/blogs/scom/archive/2008/08/18/opsmgr-agent-greyed-out-on-domain-controller.aspx</p>
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		<title>NetApp DS4243 Disk Shelves</title>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/09/18/netapp-ds4243-disk-shelves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblSHOT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally SAS disk shelves from NetApp. Also in a 24 drive configuration.
Update: Looks like these will ship with new systems only starting December (and by new systems, it seems maybe only the FAS-3170s). General availability will come a few months later. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finally SAS disk shelves from NetApp. Also in a 24 drive configuration.</p>
<p>Update: Looks like these will ship with new systems only starting December (and by new systems, it seems maybe only the FAS-3170s). General availability will come a few months later. </p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 35px"><img src="http://media.netapp.com/images/csequoi-faceonpsrgbclipped-flat-1.jpg" alt="DS4243" width="500"/><p class="wp-caption-text">DS4243</p></div>
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		<title>Mint.com</title>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/09/06/mint-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblSHOT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have got to say, mint.com is one of the best tools i&#8217;ve used in a long time. I used quicken online for a little while and then found if I stopped visiting the site that it would stop pulling transactions. The mint.com site continues to grab them even if I&#8217;ve been idle for a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have got to say, mint.com is one of the best tools i&#8217;ve used in a long time. I used quicken online for a little while and then found if I stopped visiting the site that it would stop pulling transactions. The mint.com site continues to grab them even if I&#8217;ve been idle for a month or two. There are some features that are missing (I haven&#8217;t figured out how to mark a transaction as a reoccuring bill for tracking) but overall it&#8217;s a great tool and I recommend anyone looking for a financial management tool to spend some time setting this one up.</p>
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		<title>Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode RC released</title>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/09/04/data-ontap-8-0-7-mode-rc-released/</link>
		<comments>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/09/04/data-ontap-8-0-7-mode-rc-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblSHOT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following models of storage systems are supported:
60xx

31xx (3160
is not supported in RC1)
3070
3040
SA600
SA300
SA310
Exciting. I&#8217;m thinking about installing this on a FAS-3070 next week. Hopefully have some screenshots. Since it&#8217;s generally available on the NOW site you should be able to find it.
My favorite feature so far:
In Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode and later releases, Data ONTAP supports a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">The following models of storage systems are supported:</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">60xx</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">
<p>31xx (3160</p>
<p>is not supported in RC1)</p></div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">3070</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">3040</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">SA600</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">SA300</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">SA310</div>
<p>Exciting. I&#8217;m thinking about installing this on a FAS-3070 next week. Hopefully have some screenshots. Since it&#8217;s generally available on the NOW site you should be able to find it.</p>
<p><span id="more-173"></span>My favorite feature so far:</p>
<p>In Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode and later releases, Data ONTAP supports a new type  of aggregate, the 64-bit aggregate. 64-bit aggregates have a larger maximum size  than aggregates created with earlier versions of Data ONTAP. In addition,  volumes contained by 64-bit aggregates have a larger maximum size than volumes  contained by aggregates created with earlier versions of Data ONTAP.</p>
<p>The maximum size of a 64-bit aggregate and the volumes it contains depends on  the model of your storage system. To determine the maximum 64-bit aggregate size  for your storage system model, see the <cite>System Configuration Guide</cite>.  The maximum size of a volume contained by a 64-bit aggregate corresponds to the  maximum size of its containing aggregate.</p>
<p>The maximum size for legacy aggregates, now called 32-bit aggregates, remains  16 TB.</p>
<p><strong>Supported Systems:</strong></p>
<p>The following models of storage systems are supported:</p>
<p>60xx<br />
31xx (3160 is not supported in RC1)<br />
3070<br />
3040<br />
SA600<br />
SA300<br />
SA310</p>
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		<title>NetApp VFM Email Alerts</title>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/08/03/netapp-vfm-email-alerts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblSHOT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a few hours doddling around with how to do email alerting with the provided VFM scripts. I finally ended up rewriting things just a little, but below is the basics of how to configure VFM to use email alerting.
A quick note, this most likely applies for the Brocade StorageX product as NetApp rebrands [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I spent a few hours doddling around with how to do email alerting with the provided VFM scripts. I finally ended up rewriting things just a little, but below is the basics of how to configure VFM to use email alerting.</p>
<p>A quick note, this most likely applies for the Brocade StorageX product as NetApp rebrands StorageX to work with NetApp filers.</p>
<p><span id="more-162"></span>This is going to be fairly short and sweet, not a lot of tricks to doing this.</p>
<ol>
<li>Browse to C:\Program Files\NetApp\VFM\Examples\Scripts\Replication (or your install location)</li>
<li>Copy PreEmail.bat and PostEmail.bat to C:\scripts</li>
<li>Open PreEmail.bat and modify the line:<br />
%MailUtil% %MailFile% -to %4 -subject &#8220;StorageX replication commencing for link &#8216;%1&#8242;&#8221; -q<br />
to<br />
blat %MailFile% -t {your to email address} -s &#8220;Replication commensing for &#8216;%2&#8242;&#8221; -f {from email} -server {smtp server} -port 25</li>
<li>Open PostEmail.bat and modify the line:<br />
%MailTool% %MailFile% -to %9 -subject &#8220;StorageX replication ended for link &#8216;%SXLink%&#8217;&#8221; -q<br />
to<br />
blat %MailFile% -t {your to email address} -s &#8220;Replication ended for &#8216;%SXLink%&#8217;&#8221; -f {from email} -server {smtp server} -port 25</li>
<li>Then go to the VFM console</li>
<li>Edit the properties of your replication job</li>
<li>click Replication Scripting</li>
<li>Add the two files<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-164" title="scripting screenshot" src="http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/2009Aug03-000.png" alt="scripting screenshot" width="647" height="289" /></li>
<li>and you&#8217;re done</li>
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		<title>Script: Check for Orphaned HomeDirs</title>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/07/07/script-check-for-orphaned-homedirs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblSHOT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems no matter how much you try you cannot ever get those damned orphaned homedirs cleaned up. Well, this helps. Our org always has additional groups in the homedir (no, we don&#8217;t just let the users have whatever they want in there, so we have to monitor). This causes a little confusion amongst most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems no matter how much you try you cannot ever get those damned orphaned homedirs cleaned up. Well, this helps. Our org always has additional groups in the homedir (no, we don&#8217;t just let the users have whatever they want in there, so we have to monitor). This causes a little confusion amongst most orphaned file checkers (as there is still a group in there that resolves). Read on for the code and an example.</p>
<p>What this script does is it scans a directory&#8217;s subdirectories (as with many homedirs, the subdirectories are usually the AD account name). It then tries to match the subdirectory to an AD account name. If this proves that one doesn&#8217;t exist, it prompts and spits out the ACL info and a prompt to move the files. If you say yes, it moves them to the directory you specified in arg1.</p>
<p><span id="more-116"></span></p>
<h3>Code:</h3>
<pre>'Example: cscript orphaned-files.vbs "T:\" "T:\~archive"  where T:\ is a mapped drive
strDomain = "dc=yourdomain,dc=com"
strFromDir = wscript.arguments(0)
strToDir = wscript.arguments(1)</pre>
<pre>Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
ShowSubfolders FSO.GetFolder(strFromDir)</pre>
<pre>Sub ShowSubFolders(Folder)
    For Each Subfolder in Folder.SubFolders
        'Wscript.Echo Subfolder.Path
  sUserName = replace(Subfolder.Path, strFromDir,"")
  UserExist(sUserName)
    Next
End Sub</pre>
<pre>Sub UserExist(sUserName)
 dtStart = TimeValue(Now())
 Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
 objConnection.Open "Provider=ADsDSOObject;"
 Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
 objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
 objCommand.CommandText = _
  "&lt;LDAP://" &amp; strDomain &amp; "&gt;;(&amp;(objectCategory=User)" &amp; _
    "(samAccountName=" &amp; sUserName &amp; "));samAccountName;subtree"
 Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
 If objRecordset.RecordCount = 0 Then
  WScript.Echo "*******************sAMAccountName: " &amp; sUserName &amp; " does not exist."
  DisplayACLS(sUserName)
 End If
 objConnection.Close
End Sub
Sub DisplayACLS(sUserName)
 Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
 Set objWshScriptExec = objShell.Exec("ICACLS " &amp; strFromDir &amp; sUserName &amp; "")
 Set objStdOut = objWshScriptExec.StdOut
 strLine = objStdOut.ReadAll
 Wscript.Echo strLine
 intAnswer = _
    Msgbox("Do you want to move these files?", _
        vbYesNo, "Move Files")</pre>
<pre> If intAnswer = vbYes Then
  MoveFiles(sUserName)
 Else
  wscript.echo "Skipping Files"
  wscript.echo "*******************"
 End If
End Sub</pre>
<pre>Sub MoveFiles(sUserName)
 wscript.echo "Moving Files"
 wscript.echo "*******************"
 Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.shell")
 rc=wshShell.run("cmd /c robocopy """ &amp; strFromDir &amp; sUserName &amp; """ """ &amp; strToDir &amp; sUserName &amp; """ /S /E /MOVE /COPY:DAT /V /NP /NFL /ZB /R:3 /W:3 /TEE",1,False)
 Set wshShell = nothing
End Sub</pre>
<p> </p>
<h3>Example Output:</h3>
<pre>*******************sAMAccountName: username does not exist.
S:\username BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)
         CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
         (OI)(CI)(F)</pre>
<pre>Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files</pre>
<pre>Moving Files
*******************</pre>
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		<title>New Theme</title>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/07/07/new-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dblSHOT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[every once in a while i like to change things up a little, so i changed themes. One thing i noticed was my array of crazy tags off to the right, i&#8217;m going to do some cleaning up of those i think.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>every once in a while i like to change things up a little, so i changed themes. One thing i noticed was my array of crazy tags off to the right, i&#8217;m going to do some cleaning up of those i think.</p>
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