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Use PowerShell to Upload Information to SharePoint Online

PowerShell and Sharepoint Work together

One of my favorite uses of SharePoint is to keep track of information that spans multiple departments, affecting each of us in different ways. I haven’t found a better tool that creates a central place where everyone can stay on the same page. When we get a new sales order, most of that information needs…

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The OTHER way of recovering from VMware ESXi Split Brain

Pull the Plug on Split Brain

Split brain in ESXi occurs when a member of an ESXi HA cluster is unable to determine their HA Master/Slave role. Basically, the HA Master election process fails. The most common scenario for this is where one member of a 2 HA cluster node loses its mind and can’t communicate with the other, fully functional,…

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Assign a Static IP Address to the VMware vSphere Replication Appliance

esxi setup screenshot of Static IP address

After deploying a vSphere Replication Appliance it will attempt to obtain a DHCP address. If there’s no DHCP server available to facilitate the request, the following error is displayed: NO NETWORKING DETECTED. PLEASE LOGIN AND RUN THE COMMAND Here’s what we need to do: Open a console session Login as: root Default password is: vmware Run the…

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Hiding Drives in RDS Environment

RDS Enviro

This is a common request we get from clients after deploying RDS. When a user creates an RDP session or launches a RemoteApp, by default, they can see the local drives of the Session Host server. If they can see it, they may even be able to access it. This could mean access to your…

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vSphere Replication Appliance VRM Service

vSphere Replication Appliance

Issue:  If you’ve recently deployed a vSphere Replication Appliance and you’re unable to get your VRM service started this might help.  As you can see below this is a fresh deploy and our VRM service is stopped. You can attempt to start it however it you might experience that it’ll stop again after a few…

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Copying Files To and From a Cisco Router with SCP/SSH

Cisco Router

Typically I am having to upload files a Cisco device across the Internet.  Doing so, I found TFTP or evening having a TFTP server problematic.  An easier solution is to have any standard SSH server (Linux, Unix) and copy the files to and from the server. To upload files to the server, I use WINSCP…

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Protect Organizational Units in Active Directory Domain from Deletion with PowerShell

Microsoft PowerShell icon

We recently had a client take on a new hire, although I was confident in their ability in managing Active Directory I wanted to take an extra step in protecting Organizational units from deletion.  I was sure that I could do this quickly using PowerShell instead of right-clicking each of our 80 odd OUs and…

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