The following PowerShell script will return all installed software on a Windows server. function GetInstalledMSIVersionNumber($MSIName) { #Define the variable to hold the location of Currently […]
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Collect Logs from a SAN Switch using Putty
How to collect logs from an EMC SAN Switch for debugging networking issues. The following worked successfully on a Connectrix 300 Brocade switch using PuTTY […]
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Use the test command to test if a file exists and delete the file if it exists. Or output a message that the file does […]
Continue readingClean Packages and Get Back Storage in Ubuntu
When I am low on space or I just want to clean house: Clean Packages 1. Update your sources.list sudo apt-get update 2. Clean any […]
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If you run sudo apt-get update and receive an error similar to the following, you may have a newer version of linux-image-server and linux-headers-server than […]
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Get file name of database to be moved: SELECT name, physical_name AS current_file_location FROM sys.master_files WHERE physical_name like ‘%Name%’ — Plug name into FileName, and […]
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I often have to look this up. Release a DHCP lease in Ubuntu with the following command (for the GUI search for gnome-terminal): sudo dhclient -r […]
Continue readingChrome Cannot Connect to Intranet – Error 10 (net::ERR_ACCESS_DENIED): Unknown error
After a Windows password reset, Chrome would not browse to my Corporate Intranet, and IE asked for a username and password. A Google search discovered […]
Continue readingPowerShell Script to Recursively Zip All Files in Folder
I’ve enclosed a simple PowerShell script to recursively zip files using the built in shell. Works in PowerShell 2 and 3, no additional zip applications […]
Continue readingInstall Oracle Java 7 on Ubuntu Linux
The blogger at http://tuxtuts.com saved me a lot of time, thanks! How to: Install Oracle Java 7 (JDK & JRE) in Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint 13 […]
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