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		<title>ISY Python Script for controlling media lights via xbmc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a simple python script to use the REST code in the ISY (http://universal-devices.com) to control devices that are linked. I'm designing this script to be used inside a script for xbmc. here's the first part of it. I recommend using scenes for the devicedim, deviceoff, and deviceon array, however you can use the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2010/07/16/isy-python-script-for-controlling-media-lights-via-xbmc/</link>
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		<title>Schedule a URL into Maintenance Mode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found a nice article about how to script a URL (or web application) into maintenance mode. This was a little bit of a challenge to find so I'm reposting it to hopefully get some more attention. I've also posted the modified version of the script that allows for multiple watcher hosts. [powershell]param($rootMS,$urlName,$minutes,$comment,$reason) Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client" -ErrorVariable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2010/07/07/schedule-a-url-into-maintenance-mode/</link>
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		<title>First iphone 4 post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Testing out the new phone. Been a while since the last post. Looks pretty neat to be able to write a post while mobile.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2010/07/04/first-iphone-4-post/</link>
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		<title>Designing Disaster Recovery &#8230; on a budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is still under construction. There are several options for disaster recovery and high availability. There's host based solutions, array based solutions, and virtualization solutions. Which to pick? We're going through a pretty crazy test of products, but we have the same problem as everyone else, we have tons of different storage vendors. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2010/04/06/designing-disaster-recovery-on-a-budget/</link>
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		<title>OpsMgr 2007 &#8211; No graphs in emailed reports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may have found that there are no graphs in your emails (scheduled reports) from SCOM 2007. I posted this up on the MSMOM email distro and Kevin Holman pointed me to a KB article. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972821 Just add this to your ReportingServicesService.exe.config file in the \ReportServer\bin [bash] [/bash] Place this between the tags: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2010/04/01/opsmgr-2007-no-graphs-in-emailed-reports-2/</link>
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		<title>OpsMgr 2007 &#8211; Author Privileges</title>
		<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't react as they should and you run into the error "The user domain\user does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation". Some important information here: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2010/01/04/opsmgr-2007-author-privileges/</link>
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		<title>NetApp OnTap 8.0rc2 Filerview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at filerview. Not much different here except the branding. I'll post some other screenies as I go along and explore the new version.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2010/01/03/netapp-ontap-8-0rc2-filerview/</link>
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		<title>Remotely reboot a server</title>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/10/26/remotely-reboot-a-server/</link>
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		<title>Greyed out Domain Controllers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent a while searching around for this gem. Basically the domain controllers don'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]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/09/30/greyed-out-domain-controllers/</link>
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		<title>NetApp DS4243 Disk Shelves</title>
		<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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techcolumnist.com/wp/2009/09/18/netapp-ds4243-disk-shelves/</link>
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