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Remote management in Windows Server 2012/2012R2

by | Sep 12, 2013 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I remember a few years ago talking to the marvelous Jeffery Snover about PowerShell – and my mind was blown. The possibilities of scripting, remotability, the modular design – were all magical and innovative.

 

This week I’ve been updating servers on my Hyper-V infrastructure – most of them are server core – reducing the memory and patch requirements significantly.

 

Using a PowerShell I’ve been able to upgrade them all to Windows Server 2012 R2 with minimal fuss and effort.

Linux upgrades

by | Sep 11, 2013 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I took advantage of the enforced, unplanned outage to update SLES 11 from SP2 to SP3.

 

All good – the only tiny gotcha was running the MySQL upgrade manually at the end.

 

Otherwise – looks happy so far.

udev, SLES and Hyper-V

by | Sep 11, 2013 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I got bitten by the udev GUIDs when I did the move/upgrade/move back of my on-prem blog server this morning.

 

What should have been a simple evacuation of some VMs, upgrade the host to Windows Server 2012 R2, move the old VMs back in place – turned into another episode of handcrafting grub entries and checking that everything mounted back up correctly.

 

I got bit by this before – and I need to drill into the best practices for using SLES 11/udev in a virtual environment.

2013

by | Jan 1, 2013 | Uncategorized

Fifteen years ago I would spend six weeks writing the incorrect year on every cheque I wrote.

In 2013 I’ll be lucky to write a cheque during the year.

Browsers

by | Nov 18, 2012 | Uncategorized

I’ve been a long time user and supporter of Firefox – through all of the pains and memory hogging years. Before that I swore by Netscape Navigator.

I dabbled for a short time with Rockmelt – good idea – but didn’t seem to have the execution and updates.

I’m now back to trying Chrome. It’s improved a lot.

For fairness – Internet Explorer 10 is actually pretty impressive too. The ONE THING that I miss is a plugin that does adblock. There is a paid option for IE9 – but nothing for IE10.