In my previous blog post I wrote about creating an RES Automation Job to make sure that when a user is leaving the company his account is disabled, it is moved to a isolated OU and the membership for a certain AD group is deleted. This last step is important because every user in this […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
The customer I am currently working at has an application that eats an license for every user in an AD group. They do have an scheduled task that disables user accounts and move them to a separate OU in the AD. The scheduled task does not remove the users from the application AD group so […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Today I want to build an PowerShell script for a customer that will connect via Telnet to a switch to run some commands and log the output. The next step is to be able to schedule this script to run at the beginning and at the end of the working day. The environment for this […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
If you work for a lot of different customers it becomes a drag to repeatedly change your proxy settings in your browser and trying to remember the different proxy servers and port configurations. While thinking about this problem I found a blog post from Jeff Wouters that addresses this problem. In his blog he describes […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Recently RES Automation Manager 2012 SR4 was released. One of new features of this new service release is that you can now execute PowerShell 3.0 scripts with RES Automation Manager. An important side note is that PowerShell 3.0 has to be installed on the target device. Regarding PowerShell 3.0 you should keep in mind that […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
This week I am creating an inventory of a customers network environment. Within the network of the customer is an VMware ESXi environment. While I am looking for an efficient way to collect information out of VMware vCenter I stumble upon a .NET tool called RV Tools from VMware vExpert Rob de Veij. This tool […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Today I am writing an report after an load test with Denamik LoadGen. With the data we have captured with the load test we have created graphs. These graphs are important for the report because a picture says more than a thousand words. With the graphs we visualize the information we are delivering about the […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Today I am helping an IT department who want a daily insight on what is happening on their Citrix XenApp environment. They don’t want to click around to get there information, they just want the information they need in there mailbox every day. To help them I wrote the PowerShell script you see below. So […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Today I want to promote an Windows 2012 Server to domain controller. I am building an new demo environment for a PowerShell 3.0 demonstration. When I try to execute the well known command dcpromo I receive the following message: Robin PlompWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Today I am troubleshooting in an RES Workspace Manager environment. The call that I receive states that an user who is logged on to our Windows 2003 XenApp 5 environment and he/she starts an remote application that is hosted by an supplier. This application is hosted on a Windows 2008 R2 server. The user can […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.