Welcome to the site, my name is Jeff and I have been working in the IT field since the early 90's. Most of what I post here is related to work that I do for the various companies that I have worked for over the years. Please feel free to look around ask questions or post comments (if available).
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Recent Posts
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Powershell forensic use
This is just a collection of links, most from the scripting guy about how to use PowerShell in forensic analysis of a computer system. I culled some of these together for the security group I belong to on campus, and before I lose them I thought I would drop them here.
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Printing from a Scheduled Task as a different user
It does sound a bit odd, but I’m in the process of moving all the regular monitoring I do to scheduled tasks, and this particular one caused me headaches all afternoon.
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Vmware Update Manager not responding
I received a lovely notice this morning as I was working through my servers and performing updates. I decided I would check my ESXi servers for updates using the VMware Update Manager plugin. This lovely plugin will go out and grab updates for your servers from VMware and I think optionally for other sources you define, but not today.
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Exporting Event logs in the normal Event Log format
I’ve decided that I’d like to be able to export my event logs in their native .evtx file format. This appears to be faster than converting them all to .csv files. Early on I ran into a few problems, the first of which I was unable to convert what was in my head to something that Google understood! Once I got over that I found what I was looking for.
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Get recent events from servers
I’ve been working with Microsoft on an issue that I am having with my DPM server. We have been doing some fairly intense logging, and today I enable several performance counters in an attempt to ascertain if something external is triggering this issue.