In the previous part of this blog series (PowerShell – The Patch Solution – Part 1) we introduced The Patch Solution. Simple, elegant, but yet empowering! In this post, I want to talk about some of the issues I’ve seen and heard about around patching. After you understand this, you’ll have a deeper understanding of The Patch Solution.
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Over the last few years, we here at TriCon Elite have been using what we call “The Patch Solution”. Boring name, but it also fits its purpose. Who loves deploying patches and reporting? There are many ways to patch your Windows Servers, but our slim, simple, PowerShell solution was created to solve a few key areas, for free. It has been released to the community for quite some time, but keep reading on why you should use it too!
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One of these tasks was to add a computer directly to a SCCM collection. According to their requirements, they had to use direct membership and could not do a WMI call. So I created the following script and added it to their task sequence.
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One of the most powerful features of Azure is it’s ability to seamlessly integrate with your...
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I wanted to do a shout out to all you folks that are registered for VeeamOn, to consider coming to...
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In this blog post in the series we will have a look at some of the different Vendor Designs that...
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With the release of our Master Storage Spaces Direct book on Amazon we have been getting a lot of...
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Negotiate your Maintenance Contracts One of the games our industry has played for as long as I...
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Over the past few months, I’ve been working with the Airtop-S Fanless Server from Compulab....
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One of the things that almost everyone asks me when starting cloud adoption, is what the...
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Recently at the MVPDays Roadshow in Western Canada I had a chance to deliver a session with a few...
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Operations Management Suite is Microsoft’s Azure-based Cloud monitoring solution. As is the...
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While presenting about S2D (Storage Spaces Direct) during MVPDays, I was asked if the benefits of...
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So, I have a new project coming up where I will be required to manage, maintain, and support an...
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PowerShell to the rescue again! Datadog is a Cloud service for aggregating real-time metrics, events and logs from all your servers. The easiest way is to install an agent and let it report via HTTPS directly to the internet or via a web proxy. Another cloud aggregation solution that I’m more familiar with is Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS). Both of these services provide access via PowerShell.
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I have been working with HyperConverged Infrastructure for the better part of 2.5 years now. As...
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Today I had a rather exciting email come in from Microsoft. It turns out that I was selected to be...
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In Part #11 of this blog series we chatted about expanding an existing Virtual Disk and respective...
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One of the most common administration tasks of a SAN Administrator is expanding a LUN or Volume....
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I had a chance to watch this amazing session delivered by one of our Principal Consultants Emile...
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Sometimes after we have configured a piece of infrastructure in production it would be nice to see...
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We have a Storage Spaces Direct Cluster now what? Wouldn’t it be nice to maybe create a...
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So, the day has finally arrived and you have successfully completed the first 7 parts of this Blog...
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Prior to deploying Storage Spaces Direct we should probably make sure that our Storage Subsystem...
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Before we can successfully build our Windows Failover Cluster we need to assign some IP Addresses...
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