Just heard of this newly uncovered and documented scam. Person buys small rural hospital, then sends claims to lab in another state. Moves billing out of hospital oversight to outsourced company. This creates a scenario where you can push false and over inflated labs to a place that does not exist, and a billing org can approve claims with virtually… Read more →
Auditing Installed Applications Remotely
PowerShell script to help determine the GUID of the applications installed on PCs or servers. This way we may easily create uninstallers if needed through PDQDeploy. This script will get all x64 applications on station77 Invoke-command -cn station77 -scriptblock {Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall* | Select-Object DisplayName, UninstallString | FT } This script will get all x86 applications on station77 Invoke-command -cn station77… Read more →
DevStack — DevStack 0.0.1.dev8632 documentation
Source: DevStack — DevStack 0.0.1.dev8632 documentation Going to start to dive into the Open Stack. Really excited. I know it is a huge undertaking so hopefully the DevStack will allow me to get my feet wet at a reasonable footprint. DevStack is a series of extensible scripts used to quickly bring up a complete OpenStack environment based on the latest… Read more →
Cannot Launch SQL Reporting Services “Application cannot be started” error
Source: http://www.wolffhaven45.com/blog/sccm/report-builder-3-0-fails-to-install/ I ran into this error trying to launch SQL Reporting Services application which is a click once application launched from a web browser. ERROR SUMMARY Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log. * Activation of http://###.###.###.###/ReportServer/ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder_3_0_0_0.application?ReportPath=/someDir1/someDir2/someReportName resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected: + Unable to install this… Read more →
Performance Stress Test
Here are some SQL Performance Test Tools and links which help run these test. HammerDB http://www.hammerdb.com/ Diskspd https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/09/getting-started-with-diskspd/ https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DiskSpd-a-robust-storage-6cd2f223 SQLIO https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/09/finding-your-san-bottlenecks-with-sqlio/ Read more →
Markdown quick reference — Support — WordPress.com
Source: Markdown quick reference — Support — WordPress.com Nice little reference to wordpress markdown keystrokes. This will allow me to keep my hands on the keyboard, and off the mouse. Read more →
How to recover SA password on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 | Gert Van Gorp
Source: How to recover SA password on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 | Gert Van Gorp OK this little process saved me. Big thanks to Gert for posting this article. If you have local admin access to the SQL server, you can do this procedure which works like a charm. To log in using sqlcmd to an instance… Read more →
Error: Login to iSCSI target iqn.####-##.com.######## on vmhba## @ ### failed. The iSCSI initiator could not establish a network connection to the target.
The error Error: “Login to iSCSI target iqn.####-##.com.######## on vmhba## @ ### failed. The iSCSI initiator could not establish a network connection to the target” is not an absolute error. Meaning, its not like ESX was unable to connect at all ever. It simply means that one attempt failed. For example, we have a ESX host, connected to a VNX 5300,… Read more →
How to unmount a LUN or detach a datastore device from ESXi hosts
Source: How to unmount a LUN or detach a datastore device from ESXi hosts (2004605) | VMware KB Umount Datastore LUN LUN removal checklist No virtual machine, template, snapshot or CD/DVD image resides on the datastore The datastore is not part of a Datastore Cluster Storage I/O Control is disabled for the datastore The datastore is not used… Read more →
vSphere 6.0 Documentation Center
Source: vSphere 6.0 Documentation Center ESXi Log File Locations ESXi records host activity in log files, using a syslog facility. Component Location Purpose VMkernel /var/log/vmkernel.log Records activities related to virtual machines andESXi. VMkernel warnings /var/log/vmkwarning.log Records activities related to virtual machines. VMkernel summary /var/log/vmksummary.log Used to determine uptime and availability statistics for ESXi (comma separated). ESXi host agent log… Read more →