A standard part of my server build I do everywhere is installing WireShark. WireShark of course requires WinPcap. While you can install WireShark silently, it conveniently doesn’t install WinPcap, rendering it useless. I used to work around this by...

Despite the release notes in the PE2950 2.6.1 BIOS, “Added support for the Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R) 2008 R2 operating system”, the install package doesn’t actually work properly. It has a prompt telling you that it’s running on an...

The two scripts below are a quick solution to pushing out an identical (except for IP and hostname) configuration to a large number of Dell DRAC boards. They’re not the most efficient and they were written for a specific scenario, but, they should be...

Pretty much every IT organization I've worked in of any significance has people who do the network side of things (switches, routers, firewalls, etc), and people who do the systems side (servers, applications, etc). The level of interaction and...

Data Protection Manager (DPM) will happily fail to backup Exchange if at any point it detects a consistency issue with the log stream. Your choices at this point are basically either dropping the entire protected storage group out of DPM and...