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I ended up coming up with this due to the fact we have duplicate display names and needed to update for Exchange Online to get mailbox sizes.","2021-02-18T14:46:29Z","\u002F2021\u002F02\u002F18\u002Fpowershell-get-exchange-mailboxes-over-xxgb\u002F",[266,267],[270,279,280],"exchange","exchange-online",[14,16],{"title":283,"description":284,"date":285,"url":286,"categories":287,"tags":288,"image":290,"readingTime":99,"canonical":16,"sites":291,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"PowerShell: ConnectWise Documents API, Uploading a Document or Attachment to a Ticket","PowerShell: upload a document or attachment to a ConnectWise ticket through the form-based Documents API.","2019-01-09T09:46:57Z","\u002F2019\u002F01\u002F09\u002Fpowershell-connectwise-documents-api-uploading-a-document-or-attachment-to-a-ticket\u002F",[266,267],[289,270],"connectwise","\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002Fimage.png",[14,16],{"title":293,"description":294,"date":295,"url":296,"categories":297,"tags":298,"image":299,"readingTime":99,"canonical":16,"sites":300,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"PowerShell: ConnectWise REST API Query Contacts by Email Address","A PowerShell script that queries ConnectWise contacts by email address through the REST API.","2018-12-27T10:56:24Z","\u002F2018\u002F12\u002F27\u002Fpowershell-connectwise-rest-api-query-contacts-by-email-address\u002F",[266,267],[289,270],"\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F12\u002Fimage.png",[14,16],{"title":302,"description":303,"date":304,"url":305,"categories":306,"tags":307,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":308,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"First post in a long time — changing hosting providers","Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve done a real post on this site. 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I’ve had this script for quite a while that I wanted to share with the world.","2016-02-22T20:53:26Z","\u002F2016\u002F02\u002F22\u002Fpowershell-connect-to-logicmonitors-rest-api\u002F",[266,267],[316,270],"logicmonitor",[14,16],{"title":319,"description":320,"date":321,"url":322,"categories":323,"tags":324,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":326,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"PowerShell: Autotask – Get Picklist Values","When using AutoTask’s API it’s required to lookup a various amount of picklist values that are used in updating you’re web request.","2015-02-06T18:11:32Z","\u002F2015\u002F02\u002F06\u002Fpowershell-autotask-get-picklist-values\u002F",[266,267],[269,270,325],"soap",[14,16],{"title":328,"description":329,"date":330,"url":331,"categories":332,"tags":334,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":337,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"PowerShell: NetApp – Gather Volume Information","This is a simple script to gather volume information including dedupe schedule and autogrow settings.","2014-04-28T12:57:58Z","\u002F2014\u002F04\u002F28\u002Fpowershell-netapp-gather-volume-information\u002F",[333,266,267],"dotps",[335,270,336],"netapp","script",[14,16],{"title":339,"description":340,"date":341,"url":342,"categories":343,"tags":344,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":347,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"PowerShell: OnCommand Core – Delete All Information Events","Found a solution on the NetApp communities for deleting the Informational events that plague OnCommand Core.","2014-02-10T11:56:00Z","\u002F2014\u002F02\u002F10\u002Foncommand-core-delete-all-information-events\u002F",[266,267],[345,335,346,270],"dfm","oncommand",[14,16],{"title":349,"description":350,"date":351,"url":352,"categories":353,"tags":354,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":356,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"PowerShell: NetApp – Gather Snapshot Details","Gathering snapshot statistics is a tedious task when looking at autosupports and cli output.","2014-01-21T16:15:38Z","\u002F2014\u002F01\u002F21\u002Fpowershell-gather-netapp-snapshot-details\u002F",[333,266,267],[335,270,355],"snapshots",[14,16],{"title":358,"description":359,"date":360,"url":361,"categories":362,"tags":363,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":366,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"cisco WS-C4900M: Set SSH","Note: You can leave the “telnet” off vty transport, but if you do ensure that you’ve tested SSH first!","2014-01-14T16:55:49Z","\u002F2014\u002F01\u002F14\u002Fcisco-ws-c4900m-set-ssh\u002F",[185],[364,365],"cisco","ssh",[14,16],{"title":368,"description":369,"date":370,"url":371,"categories":372,"tags":373,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":376,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"PowerShell: Download VMX File, Rename, Upload, Add to Inventory","1 environment. This created a slight issue due to the fact that environment ran vShield.","2013-10-25T14:41:24Z","\u002F2013\u002F10\u002F25\u002Fpowershell-download-vmx-file-rename-upload-add-to-inventory\u002F",[266,267],[270,374,375],"vmware","vmx",[14,16],{"title":378,"description":379,"date":380,"url":381,"categories":382,"tags":383,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":384,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"PowerShell: List All VMs with Datastore","Script to list all the VMs that exist within your vCenter Server with their datastore.","2013-10-14T17:10:37Z","\u002F2013\u002F10\u002F14\u002Fscript-list-all-vms-with-datastore\u002F",[266,267],[270,374],[14,16],{"title":386,"description":387,"date":388,"url":389,"categories":390,"tags":391,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":393,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Windows Folder Locations","A quick reference to Windows folder locations and the environment variables that point to them, such as %ALLUSERSPROFILE%.","2013-10-01T10:23:06Z","\u002F2013\u002F10\u002F01\u002Fwindows-folder-locations\u002F",[],[392],"windows",[14,16],{"title":395,"description":396,"date":397,"url":398,"categories":399,"tags":400,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":402,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Create bootable USB from ISO – Rufus","A quick bookmark for Rufus, a free tool for creating a bootable USB drive from an ISO image.","2013-09-17T09:42:19Z","\u002F2013\u002F09\u002F17\u002Fcreate-bootable-usb-from-iso-rufus\u002F",[185],[401],"bookmark",[14,16],{"title":404,"description":405,"date":406,"url":407,"categories":408,"tags":409,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":410,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"PowerShell: Find Installed NetApp Products","A slightly modified version of a scriptingGuy post to find NetApp software installed from a csv file (export from active directory)","2013-09-03T17:32:50Z","\u002F2013\u002F09\u002F03\u002Fpowershell-find-installed-netapp-products\u002F",[266,267],[335,270],[14,16],{"title":412,"description":413,"date":414,"url":415,"categories":416,"tags":417,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":419,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"vol maxfiles","I was asked the other day what happens with maxfiles. Maxfiles has to do with inodes on the NetApp.","2013-08-13T15:03:15Z","\u002F2013\u002F08\u002F13\u002Fvol-maxfiles\u002F",[185],[335,418],"vol",[14,16],{"title":421,"description":422,"date":423,"url":424,"categories":425,"tags":426,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":428,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"NetApp: cli vol create – match SM2.2 vols","2 creates as a vol type but via CLI, some of us still batch out our commands in notepad so here yah go: SAN: NAS:","2013-08-01T17:12:34Z","\u002F2013\u002F08\u002F01\u002Fnetapp-cli-vol-create-match-sm2-2-vols\u002F",[185],[427,335],"cli",[14,16],{"title":430,"description":431,"date":432,"url":433,"categories":434,"tags":435,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":436,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Android: Push file to sdcard with adb","I ran into the issue where Windows was not mounting the Phone’s SD card within windows, so I had to revert back to using adb.","2013-07-29T16:47:08Z","\u002F2013\u002F07\u002F29\u002Fandroid-push-file-to-sdcard-with-adb\u002F",[185],[],[14,16],{"title":438,"description":439,"date":440,"url":441,"categories":442,"tags":443,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":444,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"VMware dump collector and remote syslog","The esxcli commands to configure a VMware ESXi network core dump collector, kept here because I always forget them.","2013-07-12T11:12:57Z","\u002F2013\u002F07\u002F12\u002Fvmware-dump-collector-and-remote-syslog\u002F",[185],[374],[14,16],{"title":446,"description":447,"date":448,"url":449,"categories":450,"tags":451,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":453,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Update Disk Label","Have you ever had a system where you were running 7.3.x and got a new disk shelf intended for an 8.x release, and the disks show as broken?","2013-06-22T14:24:10Z","\u002F2013\u002F06\u002F22\u002Fupdate-disk-label\u002F",[185],[335,452],"ontap",[14,16],{"title":455,"description":456,"date":457,"url":458,"categories":459,"tags":460,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":462,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Unown Disks – Remove Disk Ownership","A quick command that I always forget to remember when you want to unown disks from a NetApp where nether filer owns the disks.","2013-04-24T12:51:21Z","\u002F2013\u002F04\u002F24\u002Funown-disks-remove-disk-ownership\u002F",[185],[461,335],"7-mode",[14,16],{"title":464,"description":465,"date":466,"url":467,"categories":468,"tags":469,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":473,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"SnapManager for Exchange: Backup Tasks","Notes on SnapManager for Exchange backup tasks, and why the task-creation wizard is so frustrating.","2013-02-06T14:40:34Z","\u002F2013\u002F02\u002F06\u002Fsnapmanager-for-exchange-backup-tasks\u002F",[185],[470,335,471,472],"backup","sme","tasks",[14,16],{"title":475,"description":476,"date":477,"url":478,"categories":479,"tags":480,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":481,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Check for queued autosupports","NetApp has released some commands in the 8.1.x code line release to check autosupport information.","2013-01-14T18:34:57Z","\u002F2013\u002F01\u002F14\u002Fcheck-for-queued-autosupports\u002F",[185],[],[14,16],{"title":483,"description":484,"date":485,"url":486,"categories":487,"tags":488,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":490,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"VMware 5.x, set drives to SSD","Quick post, sometimes VMware doesn’t detect that you have SSD locally and you you need to force it to enable SSD.","2012-11-01T14:48:24Z","\u002F2012\u002F11\u002F01\u002Fvmware-5-x-set-drives-to-ssd\u002F",[185],[489,374],"ssd",[14,16],{"title":492,"description":493,"date":494,"url":495,"categories":496,"tags":497,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":500,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"300k IOPS – NetApp Flash Pools","1, Flash Pools. You basically create an aggregate with two different disk types, SSD and SAS or SATA.","2012-10-25T16:45:05Z","\u002F2012\u002F10\u002F25\u002F300k-iops-netapp-flash-pools\u002F",[185],[498,499,335],"flashpool","iops",[14,16],{"title":502,"description":503,"date":504,"url":505,"categories":506,"tags":507,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":509,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"NetApp DS4486 Shelf Released in June","NetApp quietly released the DS4486 shelf in June: the first fourth-generation shelf, carrying 48 disks in a 4U chassis.","2012-07-03T23:00:03Z","\u002F2012\u002F07\u002F03\u002Fnetapp-ds4486-shelf-released-in-june\u002F",[185],[508,335],"ds4486",[14,16],{"title":511,"description":512,"date":513,"url":514,"categories":515,"tags":516,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":517,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"OnCommand Core – Changing default http port and report images not working","Fixing NetApp OnCommand Core 5.0 after changing its default HTTP port, which broke the report images.","2012-03-09T11:04:06Z","\u002F2012\u002F03\u002F09\u002Foncommand-core-changing-default-http-port-and-report-images-not-working\u002F",[185],[335,346],[14,16],{"title":519,"description":520,"date":521,"url":522,"categories":523,"tags":524,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":525,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"NetApp Disk Shelf Model Breakdown","Just came across some interesting information that I didn’t realize before, but here’s some information on why disk shelves from NetApp are named the way they are.","2012-01-17T00:10:48Z","\u002F2012\u002F01\u002F17\u002Fnetapp-disk-shelf-model-breakdown\u002F",[185],[335],[14,16],{"title":527,"description":528,"date":529,"url":530,"categories":531,"tags":532,"image":534,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":535,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Update: New Job! Systems Engineer at CDW","Look forward to new and exciting blog posts as I take my adventures into specializing in NetApp.","2011-12-22T17:31:09Z","\u002F2011\u002F12\u002F22\u002Fupdate-new-job-systems-engineer-at-cdw\u002F",[],[533],"job","\u002Fuploads\u002Fexternal\u002Feef9991b2bc2.gif",[14,16],{"title":537,"description":538,"date":539,"url":540,"categories":541,"tags":542,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":543,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"More to come… but a new job is on the horizon","I’m excited about a new job opportunity. I’ve been offered a position, as soon as it’s concrete I’ll post up what I’ll be doing for the foreseeable future.","2011-12-09T22:45:04Z","\u002F2011\u002F12\u002F09\u002Fmore-to-come-but-a-new-job-is-on-the-horizon\u002F",[],[533],[14,16],{"title":545,"description":546,"date":547,"url":548,"categories":549,"tags":550,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":552,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"New hosting provider","Just switched hosting providers. I’m using a new host “Site5”. so far very pleased with the setup. Finally getting all the other odds and ends configured on the blog.","2011-12-09T22:06:58Z","\u002F2011\u002F12\u002F09\u002Fnew-hosting-provider\u002F",[],[551],"blog",[14,16],{"title":554,"description":555,"date":556,"url":557,"categories":558,"tags":559,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":561,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"SCOM: Alert Generating Rules vs Collection Rules","A quick Google search didn’t yield a quick explanation of this, so I’ll quickly describe the difference.","2010-09-15T12:45:11Z","\u002F2010\u002F09\u002F15\u002Fscom-alert-generating-rules-vs-collection-rules\u002F",[185],[560],"scom",[14,16],{"title":563,"description":564,"date":565,"url":566,"categories":567,"tags":568,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":571,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"ISY Python Script for controlling media lights via xbmc","com) to control devices that are linked. I’m designing this script to be used inside a script for xbmc. here’s the first part of it.","2010-07-16T07:55:36Z","\u002F2010\u002F07\u002F16\u002Fisy-python-script-for-controlling-media-lights-via-xbmc\u002F",[267],[569,336,570],"isy","xbmc",[14,16],{"title":573,"description":574,"date":575,"url":576,"categories":577,"tags":578,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":579,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"PowerShell: Schedule a URL into Maintenance Mode","Found a nice article about how to script a URL (or web application) into maintenance mode.","2010-07-07T14:53:54Z","\u002F2010\u002F07\u002F07\u002Fschedule-a-url-into-maintenance-mode\u002F",[185,266,267],[560,336,270],[14,16],{"title":581,"description":582,"date":583,"url":584,"categories":585,"tags":586,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":589,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"First iphone 4 post","Testing out the new phone. Been a while since the last post. Looks pretty neat to be able to write a post while mobile.","2010-07-04T09:12:14Z","\u002F2010\u002F07\u002F04\u002Ffirst-iphone-4-post\u002F",[],[587,588],"iphone","phone",[14,16],{"title":591,"description":592,"date":593,"url":594,"categories":595,"tags":596,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":598,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Designing Disaster Recovery … on a budget","There are several options for disaster recovery and high availability. There’s host based solutions, array based solutions, and virtualization solutions.","2010-04-06T14:39:40Z","\u002F2010\u002F04\u002F06\u002Fdesigning-disaster-recovery-on-a-budget\u002F",[185],[597],"san",[14,16],{"title":600,"description":601,"date":602,"url":603,"categories":604,"tags":605,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":607,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"OpsMgr 2007 – No graphs in emailed reports","Some of you may have found that there are no graphs in your emails (scheduled reports) from SCOM 2007.","2010-04-01T16:50:10Z","\u002F2010\u002F04\u002F01\u002Fopsmgr-2007-no-graphs-in-emailed-reports-2\u002F",[185],[606,560],"opsmgr",[14,16],{"title":609,"description":610,"date":611,"url":612,"categories":613,"tags":614,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":615,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"OpsMgr 2007 – Author Privileges","Have you run into setting up permissions\u002Fprivileges for your administrators within the scom console. This can be quite confusion.","2010-01-04T16:32:15Z","\u002F2010\u002F01\u002F04\u002Fopsmgr-2007-author-privileges\u002F",[185],[560],[14,16],{"title":617,"description":618,"date":619,"url":620,"categories":621,"tags":622,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":623,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"NetApp OnTap 8.0rc2 Filerview","Note: FilerView is depreciated on 8.0 and 8.1 versions of Data OnTap 7-Mode. OnCommand System Manager 2.x is now required to manage 7-Mode systems.","2010-01-03T21:33:32Z","\u002F2010\u002F01\u002F03\u002Fnetapp-ontap-8-0rc2-filerview\u002F",[],[335],[14,16],{"title":625,"description":626,"date":627,"url":628,"categories":629,"tags":630,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":631,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Remotely reboot a server","2. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then click Connect to another computer.","2009-10-26T14:00:14Z","\u002F2009\u002F10\u002F26\u002Fremotely-reboot-a-server\u002F",[185],[],[14,16],{"title":633,"description":634,"date":635,"url":636,"categories":637,"tags":638,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":639,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Greyed out Domain Controllers","http:\u002F\u002Fscug.be\u002Fblogs\u002Fscom\u002Farchive\u002F2008\u002F08\u002F18\u002Fopsmgr-agent-greyed-out-on-domain-controller.aspx","2009-09-30T17:14:42Z","\u002F2009\u002F09\u002F30\u002Fgreyed-out-domain-controllers\u002F",[],[560],[14,16],{"title":641,"description":642,"date":643,"url":644,"categories":645,"tags":646,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":647,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"NetApp DS4243 Disk Shelves","Finally SAS disk shelves from NetApp. Also in a 24 drive configuration.","2009-09-18T09:29:34Z","\u002F2009\u002F09\u002F18\u002Fnetapp-ds4243-disk-shelves\u002F",[],[335],[14,16],{"title":649,"description":650,"date":651,"url":652,"categories":653,"tags":654,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":656,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Mint.com","Why mint.com is one of the best personal finance tools I have used in a long time, and how it compares with Quicken Online.","2009-09-06T09:03:08Z","\u002F2009\u002F09\u002F06\u002Fmint-com\u002F",[],[655],"finances",[14,16],{"title":658,"description":659,"date":660,"url":661,"categories":662,"tags":663,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":664,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode RC released","Exciting. I’m thinking about installing this on a FAS-3070 next week. Hopefully have some screenshots. Since it’s generally available on the NOW site you should be able to find it.","2009-09-04T10:02:24Z","\u002F2009\u002F09\u002F04\u002Fdata-ontap-8-0-7-mode-rc-released\u002F",[],[335],[14,16],{"title":666,"description":667,"date":668,"url":669,"categories":670,"tags":671,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":672,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"NetApp VFM Email Alerts","I spent a few hours doddling around with how to do email alerting with the provided VFM scripts.","2009-08-03T08:52:33Z","\u002F2009\u002F08\u002F03\u002Fnetapp-vfm-email-alerts\u002F",[],[335],[14,16],{"title":674,"description":675,"date":676,"url":677,"categories":678,"tags":679,"image":122,"readingTime":110,"canonical":16,"sites":680,"series":122,"seriesOrder":122,"featured":19},"Script: Check for Orphaned HomeDirs","It seems no matter how much you try you cannot ever get those damned orphaned homedirs cleaned up. 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