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  • Citrix Certified Administrator

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    Continuing workplace role changes have taken me away from the Microsoft System Center suite.  Now, I’m working with Citrix XenApp, and had little administration or engineering experience with Citrix technologies prior to this change. I recently attended Citrix Synergy 2013 in Anaheim, CA and had the opportunity to take a free exam.  Because of my…

  • Square Foot Gardening

    I recently decided to get back into gardening. I had previously grown various vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, and various herbs. This past weekend, I created a 4′ x 12′ x 1′ raised garden bed. I decided to try the “Square Foot Gardening” method, which I have never tried before. This method calls for 6″ of…

  • ConfigMgr 2012 RC2 – Primary Site is Read-Only

    In the course of evaluating ConfigMgr 2012 in my lab, I ran into an issue where my Primary site would be in read-only mode. This only occured when using the Primary site along with a Central Administration Site; a standalone Primary site would not exhibit this issue. Another blog explained my issue perfectly, but they…

  • My First *REAL* PowerShell Script

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    So I’ve done a few one-liner’s in PowerShell to more efficiently collect certain information about a server, folder, etc, but today I wrote what I consider to be my first real PowerShell script.  It should be no coincidence that today’s workday was the conclusion of a week of PowerShell training from Microsoft. Anyway, the concept…

  • PowerShell Training This Week!

    My employer has set up Microsoft training this week. We have scheduled to bring a trainer from Microsoft to our largest office who will provide a four day training starting tomorrow. Because of this, I have been digging through some PowerShell resources I had previously found to get ahead of the curve for this training.…

  • VMware – Determining ownership of a virtual disk using PowerShell

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    So as you may have guessed, I work with VMware a bit in my employment. On top of that, I’ve tried to start using PowerShell to automate repetitive tasks that I run into. (In fact, one of the major points of the existence of this page is to give myself a location to store these…

  • SCCM: Determining collection refresh time using PowerShell

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    I recently had a need to examine the last refresh time of a large number of SCCM collections. We had a group of collections which are used to define maintenance windows for various servers, and we wanted to ensure that all these collections were updating regularly (and to fix the ones that weren’t). Normally, I…

  • MCTS: System Center Configuration Manager

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    I posted previously about attending a Microsoft authorized training course on Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (officially shortened to ConfigMgr, but commonly referred to as SCCM). After that course, I had intended on taking the exam but as the product was not one in which I was involved with regularly, and some life stuff that…

  • VMware Certified Professional (vSphere 4)

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    So I took advantage of VMware’s VCP upgrade offer and have successfully passed the VMware Certified Professional exam for vSphere 4. Normally VMware requires that a candidate complete an authorized training course in order to attain VCP certification, however, through the end of the year they are allowing current VCP’s on Virtual Infrastructure 3 to upgrade…