Get-ServerNames.ps1

Here’s the script I metioned a few days ago. I wrote this a while back (Pre-RC0, I think).

 Anyway, if you’ve got a bunch of servers that you need to perform a common task on (copy files, check event logs, etc), this is handy…however, it only works if you’ve got the Managed By field set in [...]

PowerShell Script for Server Hardware Updates

No. This script doesn’t do the updates for you, as awesome as that would be. I have a bunch of boxes that I have to do firmware updates on tonight. Apparently the Dell PERC4 has an issue on a certain firmware revision that will cause arrays of 5 or more disks in RAID 5 or [...]

Moving Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Databases to a new SQL Server

So, for whatever reason you need to move your BizTalk databases from one SQL server to another. In my case, I was moving from a hostname to a CNAME, for DR purposes (failover server is in another DC, and not clustered).

In the event of a disaster, we could just fail over to the other database [...]

Hello World

So, here it is. My “IT Stuff” blog. Here, I’ll pretend to be a writer AND pretend to know what I’m talking about…maybe I can help some people out along the way.

By trade, I’m a server engineer…specifically Microsoft products ranging from Server 2003, SQL Server 2005, BizTalk Server 2006, IIS, and more.

PowerShell rocks. I find myself [...]