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Consider the scenario where you want to deploy a basic print driver to your clients but the vendor only offers a full package installer for a given printer. One possible solution is to install the full driver on a reference system, then export the print driver for installing it on other clients. Here is how […]
Continue ReadingNetbox Installation (bobcares.com) Netbox installation will will allow us to automate most networking operations. Its an open-source, web-based Infrastructure Resource Modeling (IRM) application. At Bobcares, we offer solutions for every query, big and small, as a part of our Server Management Service. Check out how our Support team assisted a customer with installing and configuring NetBox on Ubuntu […]
Continue ReadingWith the newer Microsoft OS’s (both workstations and servers), Microsoft decided to start building a recovery partition AFTER the OS partition. This means if you need to increase the size of the OS partition, you must do some work first to get rid of the recovery partition before you can extend the OS partition size. […]
Continue ReadingUpdate April 15th 2020: If you are doing a full upgrade, make sure you specify the proper profile name using: esxcli software profile update -d </path/to/depot.zip> -p <profile name> You can list the profiles included in the depot with: esxcli software sources profile list -d </path/to/depot.zip> I’m running a fully nested homelab on a single SuperMicro server. […]
Continue ReadingHere is a script you can use from PowerShell to change DNS configuration on remote systems. It takes a CSV file for input of which systems to change and which DNS servers to set. This assumes the required NIC that needs to be updated is the only NIC that has an IP address and DNS […]
Continue ReadingSometimes, you may need to convert a certificate to PEM format for use on *nix or non-Windows platforms. Here is a way to do this using PowerShell without any third party software. First, we need to get a cert loaded into a variable. This cert can be pulled from a PFX or loaded directly from […]
Continue ReadingTroubleshooting the Client Check if BITS is running The first step in troubleshooting hardware inventory on a client is to verify the BITS service is running. BITS or Background Intelligent Transfer Service is a Windows service used to transfer data whenever there is bandwidth that is not being used by other applications. BITS also supports […]
Continue ReadingThis week at church, we began testing a new Wi-Fi in-ear monitor system that uses your personal mobile device connected to a Mac over a dedicated Wi-Fi connection. Initial testing by myself was pretty good. The quality was good and the connection was clean. But then on the first practice, we added another user to […]
Continue ReadingLearn how to PXE Boot both BIOS & UEFI machines with DHCP Policies and Custom Vendor Classes One of the challenges that an IT deployment administrator may face in the field is the ability to boot both BIOS and UEFI machines from the same WDS environment. This is exactly the issue I faced when our organization […]
Continue ReadingIn this article, I will show you how to check the AD Schema version using Powershell. First, you need to log into your Active Directory Domain Controller. If you have more than one domain controller, you should log in to the forest root domain controller. Open PowerShell with Administrator Permission If there is a pop-up screen […]
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