Information Technology, and other interesting things …
Windows 7 does not allow users to “downgrade” or convert from a more premium and more expensive edition to down-level, more basic and less expensive edition. For example, it’s impossible to downgrade from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional, or from Windows 7 Professional to Windows 7 Home Premium or Home Basic. Windows 7 … Read More “Downgrade Windows 7 from Enterprise/Ultimate Edition to lower Edition” »
Sometimes you need a SCOM Rule which was calculated from one or more SNMP values. Maybe the values have to be calculated, cause the value is in an unhandy format or unit. In this example i will create a Rule and a Performance View to show the autonomny time for an APC UPS. The originaly … Read More “Create a calculated SNMP Rule in SCOM” »
I’m working now for over 15 years in information technology, but i got never before a server response which is so straight and funny too: The server is unwilling to process the request. Maybee the server could do it, but he doesn’t like it. The error above was caused by this simple vb-script, when user … Read More “unwilling Server” »
Maybe you want to disable the autodiscovery feature in Outlook 2007 / 2010 for your full mail domain – maybe you don’t like the feature, or your mail server doesn’t support it. For this, there is an easy solution: Define in your DNS-server an A-entry for autodiscover.domain.com pointing to 127.0.0.1.
To shutdown a VMware datacenter on UPS failure i found a PowerShell script, which i modified: The script will shutdown the desired VMware datacenter, but it will ask you first, if you are sure. If you like to run the script in silent mode, you can run it with parameter yes. You have to define … Read More “Shutdown full VMware datacenter on UPS failure” »
In my environment, i have a lot of users, which never comes to the office, but need remote access to the company network. for this they have an AD user account, which password will expires for company policy after 90 days. Cause they never logon to a domain computer, they didn’t get the “Change Password … Read More “Notify AD user with mail when password expires” »
Cause of company policy we don’t delete users which are leaving, but we disabled them. The exchange mailbox will be removed after some months. For this incomming mails have to be forwarded to an exchange contact with an unresolvable address, so the sender receives an error message. Cause of this, we need to remove the … Read More “Remove all disabled users from distribution lists” »
If you create a guest network with a Cisco Wireless Lan Controller, you will like to create and import a third-party SSL-Certificate for the Web Auth page. If you don’t add a third-party SSL certificate, your guest users will receive an error-message, that the WLC’s selfsigned certificate isn’t valid. Cause i searched long time around, … Read More “Add third-party SSL-Certificate to Cisco WLC’s web authentication page” »
Did you ever need to know, to wich network switch a computer is connected? When you are a system administrator in a large company with tousends of users, this can be difficult. But when you use SCCM for OS or Software deployment, you have a good inventory tool integreated. Unfortunately SCCM by default only collect … Read More “Collect CDP informations with SCCM” »
When you manualy edit a monitor or rule in the SCOM Authorin Console, maybee you have to edit the field @VariantType. The VariantType describes the type of the value that is returned. The variant types are: Empty = 0 Null = 1 Short = 2 Integer = 3 Single = 4 Double = 5 Currency … Read More “VariantTypes” »