Making IT Go

In the IT field since the early 90’s. Please feel free to look around ask questions.

Jeff Patton

25 hours a day, 8 days a week, how does he do it?

Windows Eventlog Management Part 1

USING EVENT TRIGGERS AND EVENT FORWARDING TO GET WHAT YOU WANT FROM THE EVENT SUBSYSTEM Event logs are horrible, and depending on which log you’re looking at...

ExitCodes Part 2

So, yesterday I mentioned that I re-wrote the inventory script. Today I decided to re-write the reboot script. The idea behind the script is that once a week...

PowerShell New-AdInventory script

I may have mentioned on here before that we rely quite heavily on Active Directory, and it’s true. It’s at the core of nearly all the services we deliver, th...

Windows Server 8 Beta Failover Clustering Part 2

There were so many images that I decided to split this up over several posts. In Part 1, I got the Failover Cluster feature installed on my first server, and...

Windows Server 8 Beta Failover Clustering Part 1

I read a very nice article over on TechNet about some of the new features of Failover Clustering in Windows 8, so I decided to give it a spin. It’s not too b...