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ESX + MSCS 2008 R2 + SQL Server 2008

2011-01-26 1 min read Microsoft MSCS System Administration Virtualization VMware Zachary Loeber

Just a quick note on this little combo. Should you be looking to setup a windows 2008 R2 cluster in a virtual environment (details on specific vmware configuration left to the reader) here are some quick notes that I have on some caveats. 1.) Either keep vmware tools un-uninstalled or make certain not to install the Shared Folder component of vmware tools. 2.) Don’t clone the second node from the first using vmware. Continue reading

Exchange: Remove entire OU from address book

2011-01-22 1 min read Active Directory Exchange Microsoft System Administration vbscript/hta Zachary Loeber

Here is another script that I hacked together in part of an AD/Exchange cleanup task to remove disabled users from the address book. This script, more specifically, removes an entire OU of users from the address book, so make sure that all the users are disabled in the OU you will be running this against! 🙂

Big-IP: Custom IIS SOAP Monitor

2011-01-22 2 min read BIG-IP IIS Linux Microsoft Networking System Administration Zachary Loeber

In working on a production issue with my company’s flagship SaaS product I worked with some of the brilliant F5 engineers to isolate one web server in the load balanced pool which was intermittently failing. The F5 engineer recommended a health monitor that does more than just poll for a static page. He suggested we implement some kind of soap call to make the application pool do some work and return a result (I guess in case the IIS application pool is misbehaving but not down). So I worked with one of our developers to do just that but ran into some caveats which required yet another custom health monitor.

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