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Month: August 2015

Home » Archives for August 2015
Enterprise Operating Systems / Microsoft Windows Server

5 reasons to use NIC Teaming with Windows Server 2012

  NIC Teaming, also known in the Microsoft world as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO), allows you to install additional physical Ethernet network adapters (NICs) into your server and “team” or combine …

Enterprise Operating Systems / Microsoft Windows Server

Display Link Speed and Duplex Speed Information

Windows 8, 8.1, Server 2012,  and Server 2012 R2 has a PowerShell cmdlet called: Get-NetAdpater. This tool can be used to quickly get critical network information from a system, such as …

Enterprise Operating Systems / Microsoft Windows Server

Saving Credentials for Mapped Network Drive

Tired of having users ask you to map network drives because the password and username are not persistent? Try this command in Powershell or Command Prompt: net use Z: \\Hostname\ShareFolder …

Enterprise Operating Systems / Microsoft Windows Server

Powershell – quick format drive based on drive letter name

Here is a cool Powershell command that will find a removable drive, quick format the drive, then name the drive. This command is special because it searches for the drive …

SYSADMIN POEM

Keys clack beneath my fingers, I frantically click at the mouse
Most the servers are down, everything in house.

I click and type away as sweat runs down my brow
Everything went down but I’m not sure yet how.

The coffee’s long been cold but I drink it anyway
I know I’ll be stuck here until the break of day.

The phone is ringing off the hook, but I ignore its rattle.
The users are all angry, like an untamed herd of cattle.

I pray to the IT gods to have pity on my soul
Let this restore work, let the data all be whole.

-ccraddocks

NETWORK SYSADMIN POEM

Three small words make a difference and can make or break

And just a few seconds is all that it takes

Often forgotten they've caused broken hearts

So here's a reminder:

copy run start-unknown

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