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Setup a Fully Functional Lync 2013 Lab Using only One Public IP Address 23 Aug 2013 | 03:15 pm
Note: This article assumes you know how to setup Lync 2013 already and just need to know the intricacies of changing the default ports. Ever since I was exposed to Lync in 2011, I've been a huge prop...
Running Lync 2010 with a SQL 2012 Backend 10 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
Recently I was tasked with migrating all SQL 2008 R1 and prior databases to SQL 2008 R2 and SQL 2012. One of my qualifying applications was Lync 2010. We were under the impression that SQL 2012 woul...
PowerShell v3: Get Volume Information for Clustered SQL Server Storage 23 Jul 2013 | 04:27 pm
Unfortunately, there are no native PowerShell Failover Cluster cmdlets which will give you the volume information for disks in a cluster. I've seen some bloggers use Get-ClusterSharedVolume but a Clus...
ESX Tip: View Logs and Configs from Centralized Web Page 10 Jul 2013 | 06:28 pm
I'm currently reading VMware vSphere Design and found a super useful tip: you can find a centralized list of config and log files for ESX. This page, located at https://youresxhost/host, shows a whole...
Use PowerShell v3 to Keep a CookieJar and POST to a Web Form That Prohibits XSS 8 Jul 2013 | 02:36 pm
In my previous post, I outlined how to use PowerShell v2 to keep a CookieJar and POST to a Web Form that Prohibits XSS. The code was 35 lines long. Upon seeing my post, Lee Holmes suggested using Powe...
Use PowerShell to Keep a CookieJar and POST to a Web Form That Prohibits XSS 5 Jul 2013 | 08:24 pm
I recently had a project that required I log into a site and submit a form. Initially, I had a Start-Process that launched iexplore but then I decided it would be best to.. My initial attempts to aut...
Summary Post: Update VMware vSphere SSL Certs 5 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
After speaking with a colleague today, I expect this list will grow as I work more with the vSphere suite. But until then, here is a consolidated list of posts and scripts that I've written to ease th...
Update VMware Horizon View SSL Certs with your own Windows Domain CA Certificates using PowerShell 1 Jul 2013 | 03:29 pm
Well, this script was different. Unlike the other posts in this series, I was required to use only Microsoft command line tools instead of OpenSSL. Not that I'm opposed to using certreq and certutil -...
Update VMware Site Recovery Manager SSL Certs with your own Windows Domain CA Certificates using PowerShell 20 Jun 2013 | 04:25 pm
Next in the series of replacing vSphere related SSL scripts is the VMware Site Recovery manager script. This script generates the SSL certificates based off of the WebServer Certificate Template and ...
Update VMware View Composer SSL Certs with your own Windows Domain CA Certificates using PowerShell 20 Jun 2013 | 12:25 am
Next in the series of replacing vSphere related SSL scripts is the VMware View Composer script. This one is rather simple, and uses certutil and certreq to generate the certificates, as opposed to Ope...
