Fortinet : Extend admin lock out period
#FortinetIf you have any device that has an exernal IP the chances are you are used to see attempt after attempt of various alien IP address's…
PowerShell: Windows Storage Spaces (WSS) health check + email alerts
#PowerShell #StorageSomeone asked me for a way to alert on Windows Storage Spaces (WSS) issues on their home NAS server. My answer was a very dissapointing "…
Fortinet: Static (unnumbered) PPPoE address
#FortinetI recently came accross this very so annoying issue when configuring some fortinet devices with PPPoE interfaces. The client had been given a block of IP's,…
Powershell: Create random password function
#PowerShellAs part of the auto-provisioning system I am working on I need something to generate secure passwords. This function will return a random password of any…
PowerShell, Hyper-V : Set VM IP from the host
#PowerShell #Hyper-VIts been a while with no updates and it's not that I haven't been working hard, it's that I have been doing a lot of stuff…
PowerShell, Hyper-V: Controlling Automatic Start in Batches
#PowerShell #Hyper-VIn my environment, I have a lot of very large hyper-v hosts and each can contain 100+ VM's. These VM's are partly managed by another system…
PowerShell, Veeam : Job status report
#PowerShell #VeeamVeeam is a great application, with great Powershell support. You can do anything the application does and more from PowerShell. I am just getting my teeth…
Storage: Windows Storage Deduplication
#StorageIf you run environments with thousands of virtual servers all running very similar operating systems then it's time we talked deduplication. Consider this... You have a…
PowerShell, Hyper-V: Drain standalone Hyper-V host
#PowerShell #Hyper-VIf you need to drain a non clustered Hyper-v server then you have the lovely shared nothing live migrations tool at your disposal. Of course, its…